Engineering sustainable forest industry value creation network - design for network economies

这项研究计划旨在为加拿大森林工业提供工业工程和供应链管理领域的创新工具和方法，以提高其可持续性，减少其环境足迹。为了使林产工业保持竞争力，必须从可持续性的角度重新评估新的和现有的商业模式；这要求在战略规划和决策中纳入经济、环境和社会层面。这项提议引入了一个由工业工程、林业、工商管理和计算机科学领域的多学科研究人员组成的团队，旨在解决可持续价值链设计中出现的各种问题。该计划是由For@C的教授、PHQ、研究专业人员和行业合作伙伴组成的团队发起的研究工作的继续。简而言之，该计划旨在解决在考虑各种不确定性来源的同时，设计经济、环境和社会可持续的价值链。通过开发三个决策支持系统(SilviLab、LogiLab和CarbonLab)，将促进研究计划中开发的模型和工具从研究人员有效地转移到行业合作伙伴。

This research program aims to provide the Canadian forest industry with innovative tools and methods grounded in the domains of industrial engineering and supply chain management in order to improve its sustainability and reduce its environmental footprint. For the forest products industry to remain competitive, new and existing business models must be re-evaluated from the perspective of sustainability; this calls for the integration of economic, environmental and social dimensions in strategic planning and decision making. This proposal introduces a multidisciplinary team of researchers in industrial engineering, forestry, business administration and computer science that intends to tackle various problems arising in the design of sustainable value chains. This program is the continuation of research efforts initiated by a team of professors, PHQ, research professionals and industrial partners of FOR@C. In brief, this program intends address the design of value chains that are economically, environmentally and socially sustainable while considering various sources of uncertainty. Effective transfer of the models and tools developed in the research program from researchers to the industrial partners will be facilitated through the development of three decision support systems (SilviLab, LogiLab and CarbonLab).