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Long-range timber supply planning for a vertically integrated paper mill
- Source :
- European Journal of Operational Research. 191:558-571
- Publication Year :
- 2008
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2008.
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Abstract
- We consider a vertically integrated papermaking operation composed of an integrated pulp and paper mill with its regional supply network. Considering land procurement and harvest rotation as strategic decision variables, we construct a model to establish a long-range timber supply plan that minimizes the total discounted cost of meeting annual virgin wood fiber demand over an infinite horizon. Under appropriate assumptions on costs and storage, the land procurement and harvest rotation decisions are separable with harvest rotation being determined via a forest economics-type equation and land procurement being determined by a newsvendor-type equation.
- Subjects :
- Information Systems and Management
General Computer Science
business.industry
Papermaking
Paper mill
Agricultural engineering
Management Science and Operations Research
Vertical integration
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Procurement
Modeling and Simulation
Supply planning
Supply network
Range (statistics)
Economics
Operations management
business
Rotation (mathematics)
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 03772217
- Volume :
- 191
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- European Journal of Operational Research
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........76fd5f4dfed89891838928caa9d77637