The papiNet FWS&Bioproducts group announces a comprehensive update for the Roundwood to a sawmill in Northern Europe including implementing the EU Deforestation Regulation Use Case.

Roundwood to a sawmill in Northern Europe Use Case

The papiNet FWS&Bioproducts group announces a comprehensive update for the Roundwood to a sawmill in Northern Europe Use Case.

Roundwood to a sawmill in Northern Europe Use Case

The Swedish IT company SDC in September 2017 expanded its integration service offering with a set of XML documents formatted in compliance with the papiNet standard. The services are offered to the parties within the Swedish forest wood supply industry. Since February 2018 most of these customers in the Swedish forest wood supply chain have adopted the papiNet integrations replacing the legacy SDC integrations with proprietary fixed file formats. In late December 2018 Biometria acquired SDC and has ever since continued to maintain and develop the papiNet formatted integrations with customers. In 2022 Biometria has sent around 20 million papiNet messages per month to its customers. These customers constitute almost 100% of the forest wood supply business in Sweden. There is an ongoing major Biometria project that in Q3 2024 will have replaced its legacy set of IT systems with the new system branded VIOL 3. The new system will, as requested by customers, support many more e-documents that are formatted according the papiNet standard and will totally skip old fixed file formatted integrations.

The papiNet FWS&Bioproducts group announces a comprehensive update for the Harvesting and forwarding of logs in the forest Use Case.

Harvesting and forwarding of logs in the forest Use Case

In January 2018 Skog-Data released the solution for forest wood trade, VSYS VirkesHandel, in Norway. The solution is based on papiNet e-documents for information exchange. By September 2020 almost all integration in the Norwegian Forest Wood Supply chain is powered by papiNet e-documents. Approximately 150,000 e-documents are passing through the Skog-Data hub every week.

E-documents in use are Purchase Order, Order Confirmation, Delivery Instruction, Delivery Message, Measuring Instruction, Measuring Ticket, Inventory Status and Shipment Status.

About Skog-Data AS

Skog-Data delivers software to the Norwegian forest wood supply chain and operates the Norwegian information hub. The Company, owned by the parties in the Norwegian forest wood supply chain, was established in 1966.

The papiNet organisation has published an updated version of the FWS&B ISS Use Case Zip Files on 30 April 2020. It is also available to download under menu Helpful Implementation Material of user group Forest Wood Supply & Bioproducts.

FWS & Bioproducts Announces Updated ISS Use Case Definitions for all Use Cases:

FWS & Bioproducts ISS Use Cases Zip Files

The papiNet organisation has published an updated version of the FWS&B Business Rules document on 11 March 2019. It is available to download under menu Helpful Implementation Material of user group Forest Wood Supply & Bioproducts.

By following the rules, interoperability and reliability is increased in the ongoing digitalization of the Forest Wood Supply & Bioproducts industries

The papiNet FWS&B User Group announces they have published an updated release of their business rules for implementation of the papiNet Standard within the industry. 

The business rules and related documents are available to download free of charge under menu Helpful Material of user group Forest Wood Supply & Bioproducts.

The papiNet organisation has published an updated version of the FWS&B Use Case “Harvesting and forwarding of logs in the forest”. The objective of this use case is to give an introduction into how production data from a forest harvester and forwarder (based upon StanForD2010 standard) can be converted into papiNet e-documents.

By adopting the use case, interoperability and reliability is increased in the ongoing digitalization of the Forest Wood Supply & Bioproducts industries.

The use case description and related documents are available to download free of charge under menu Use Cases of user group Forest Wood Supply & Bioproducts.

The papiNet organisation has published an updated version of the FWS&B Business Rules document on 13 February 2018. It is available to download under menu Helpful Implementation Material of user group Forest Wood Supply & Bioproducts.

By following the rules, interoperability and reliability is increased in the ongoing digitalization of the Forest Wood Supply & Bioproducts industries

In September 2017, SDC successfully launched external integrations of Contracts, Delivery Instructions, Measuring Tickets and Invoice Specifications for the Forest Wood Supply chain using papiNet e-documents.  Customers of SDC can now benefit from modern XML formatted documents complying with the globally recognized papiNet standard that replaces legacy proprietary fixed-length formats.

The papiNet format enables SDC and its customers to update the integrations much easier and more frequently than with the earlier fixed-format format. The content is readable to the human eye and in tagged XML format, enabling the documents to be used in other ways than coded fixed-format files. Swedish pulp mills and sawmills can leverage  the papiNet standard for both inbound forest wood supply and outbound pulp and wood products.

Since the launch in September some 15 customers have already replaced the legacy integrations with papiNet e‑documents and by February 2018 all customers will have moved to papiNet. At that time, all Swedish forest companies, sawmills, pulp mills and biomass heating plants will use the papiNet standard for integrations concerning forest wood trade.

Approximately 500 Swedish plants – sawmills, pulp mills and biomass heating plants – and terminals are connected to SDC. The renewal of the external integrations is initiated by the move from a legacy system to a new standard platform for ERP, CRM and BI.

About SDC:

SDC provides and refines information between forest and industry through industry common IT-solutions. SDC is an economic association with some fifty members representing buyers and sellers of forest wood products in Sweden. Purchasing sawmills are affiliated through their own industry organizations

In March 2017 Tieto introduced the Forest Hub ecosystem platform that helps wood supply business partners in their operational data transfer regarding wood logistics and mill reception processes. By connecting to Tieto Forest Hub the actors in forest industry are seeking to improve daily operational planning and follow-up, management of the inventories, and information quality, while also decreasing the amount of manual work required and reducing errors.

A complex supply chain in a complex ecosystem involves a large number of messages between organisations at different points. In wood and fibre supply the ecosystem includes a multitude of suppliers and buyers, harvesting operations, transport and logistics as well as mill reception and inventory management. The faster, easier and more standardised the exchange of these messages is, the more efficiently the entire ecosystem will work. This is why the major industry players across Europe and North America have come together in the form of papiNet®, a global initiative for the Forest and Paper supply chain. 

Up until now, however, standardised messaging has been possible mainly between large organisations. Industry information hubs are changing the scene profoundly and Tieto Forest Hub is open to all actors in the industry, from large forest industry companies to medium size and small businesses, including bioenergy producers. Companies with the lightest messaging needs can even use Forest Hub simply through a web browser, and the open papiNet standard ensures data compliance throughout the whole supply chain.

Tieto, a Nordic leader in industry hubs and ecosystems, and a strong supporter of open standards, makes the benefits of information hubs and the papiNet messaging standard available to all wood and fibre businesses regardless of size. In addition to Forest Hub, Tieto is active also in several other papiNet initiatives. A prime example is SDC’s (www.sdc.se) information hub renewal project in Sweden where Tieto is participating in building the new papiNet based messaging layer for the new version of SDC service. Similarly, Tieto is helping several industry customers to adapt their systems to the new papiNet standard.

Tieto’s Forest Hub is based on Business Information Exchange (BIX, www.tieto.com/bix), which is a cloud service for B2B integration. Tieto BIX currently covers 1,500 direct customers, 26 sales partners, and exchanges close to 500 million transactions annually. By using this large scale B2B integration service as its core, Tieto Forest Hub can provide cost efficient and reliable services that meet the business continuity requirements of mission critical processes.

For more information, please contact:

Jaakko Kuusisaari, Director, Wood and Fibre Solutions, Tieto
Tel.: +358 (0)40 501 5197, e-mail: jaakko.kuusisaari@tieto.com

CONTRACT

The new e-document Contract has been developed by papiNet user group Forest Wood Supply & Bioproducts. The Contract e-Document can be used by business partners to communicate business agreements. Contracts are managed by a ContractParty that normally is the seller or the buyer of a product or logistics service. The Contract e-Document can also be sent to service providers that need the contract information for carrying out their services.

It is currently used in implementations by SDC in Sweden. The Contract is available in the current build of the papiNet standard and can be downloaded at <link the-standard download-current-version>www.papinet.org/the-standard/download-current-version/.

MEASURINGINSTRUCTION

The new e-document MeasuringInstruction has been developed by papiNet user group Forest Wood Supply & Bioproducts. The MeasuringInstruction e-Document can be used to instruct a measuring party what to measure and how to measure it. Packages and loads as well as individual items can be measured. The e-Document sets the parameters for various measuring properties, quantities, and products.

The MeasuringInstructionType controls the usage of the MeasuringInstruction e-Document. It can be used to instruct to measure a shipment (several packages, items or loads) or to measure samples.

The MeasuringInstruction e-Document is typically used by the Forest Wood Supply & Bioproducts business, but can also be used by other businesses.

The MeasuringInstruction is available in the current build of the papiNet standard and can be downloaded at <link the-standard download-current-version>www.papinet.org/the-standard/download-current-version/.

Skog-Data, a Norwegian software company for forestry business, has gone live with their new FWS trade application VirkesHandel. The first purchase order for wood chips was issued in January and currently most of the wood chips trade in Norway is handled using the application. Each party in the business chain run their separate client and all data exchange is based on papiNet eDocuments. The transmission is handled by the message hub “VSYS DataBuss” using the papiNet Envelope for addressing

A new pilot is on-going to develop electronic data exchange in the French bioenergy & woodchips supply chain.

Undertaken within the TRADE-project, this pilot is led by the national union of forest cooperative (GCF) in partnership with key bioenergy stakeholders. The new messages will use papiNet eDocuments and envelopes (mainly DeliveryInstruction for loading and transport, DeliveryMessage, MeasuringTicket).

Future exchanges will be based on the national and collective eMOBOIS infrastructure, and will be in line with eMOBOIS master data.

The specification phase is ongoing and messages will be implemented in 2017.