The Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR)-Model to describe the value-added chain in forestry

Standards in forestry are expected to improve communication, coordination, and collaboration between partners of the wood supply chain due to consistent terminology and common understanding. This article investigates whether the Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR) model (Abb. 1 to 3), which is widespread in industry, can be used to describe and standardise the second level of the wood supply chain in forestry (technical timber production). Standardised SCOR process elements are modified in terms of content and terminology for wood supply, harvesting, delivery, and forestal planning (Abb. 5 to 9). Moreover, using these process elements, forestal forms of organisation such as forest enterprise with a high vertical range of manufacture, selling standing timber to a mill, lease of forests to a mill, and a timer sale agency can be modelled (Abb. 10 to 13) as well as interfaces between organisational units can be analysed and designed (Tab. 2). The proposed model enables a generalised mapping of forestal reality and a differentiated depiction on different levels of details. Thus, an appropriate starting position for a common understanding, for describing and analysing processes, interfaces, and forms of organisation is created as a first step towards standardisation and improvement of inter-organisational logistics processes in the wood supply chain.