Design value chains and coordination mechanisms in the forest sector

森林部门面临着复杂、分散的价值链的挑战，涉及大量利益攸关方，需要先进的工具来支持价值链决策。这项研究将为政府、行业和社区提供新的方法，共同解决价值链的设计问题，充分利用资源和可用信息。有了这项研究提供的先进决策支持贡献，森林价值链各单位之间的协调将得到改善，以帮助该部门更可持续和更具竞争力。这一研究计划的重点是在价值链各组成部分独立于其运营而依赖于其集体绩效的背景下进行分布式决策和开发先进的协作计划方法。将讨论价值链各组成部分之间的协调机制的作用以及协作设计这些机制的挑战，特别是在虚拟决策室的支持下。四名研究生将通过该项目得到培训和财政支持。他们将在林业部门内获得系统工程和价值链规划方面的独特专业知识。

The forest sector is challenged by a complex, distributed value chain, involving a large number of stakeholders raising the needs for advanced tools to support value chain decision-making. This research will provide government, industry and communities, new ways to address together the design of value chains, making the best use of the resources and the available information. With the advanced decision support contributions provided by this research, the coordination between the units of the forest value chain will be improved in order to help the sector be more sustainable and competitive. The focus of this research program is on distributed decision-making and developing advanced collaborative planning approaches in a context where components of the value chain are independent in regard of their operations and dependent in regard of their collective performance. The role of coordination mechanisms between components of the value chain will be addressed as well as the challenges of designing these mechanisms collaboratively; notably with the support of a virtual decision room. Four graduate students will be trained and financially supported through this project. They will gain unique expertise in system engineering and value chain planning within the forest sector.