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Lean thinking in the secondary woodproducts industry : challenges and benefits

Creator:: Czabke, Jochen
Abstract:: Due to growing global competition, especially in the last decade, the United States wood and wood-based industries have suffered significant market share losses. The wood industry in Germany is facing similar challenges. To stay competitive in an increasingly global marketplace, many wood manufacturers are adopting new management/manufacturing approaches. Lean manufacturing...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: “Lean Thinking in the Secondary Wood Products Industry: Challenges and Benefits” By Jochen

How to write business plans for forest products companies

Creator:: Pepke, Edward King and United States. State and Private Forestry. Northeastern Area
Abstract:: A business plan is an essential tool in starting and managing a new or expanding venture. It is not only a comprehensive gathering of ideas and information on the potential business and its feasibility, but it is also a way of monitoring that business, once established. Business plans are important...
Resource Type:: Technical Report

Forest certification in North America

Creator:: Hansen, Eric, 1968-, Fletcher, R., Cashore, B., McDermott, C., and Oregon State University. Extension Service
Abstract:: Forest certification—or, as it is sometimes called, green certification—aims to identify forestland that is managed to meet agreed-upon standards and, sometimes, to label products originating from those forests. The underlying goal of forest certification is to promote forest practices that are environmentally, socially, and economically sustainable over the long term....
Resource Type:: Technical Report
Full Text:: certification to gain the public’s recognition of the quality of their forest management. Wood products compa

Optimizing the primary forest products supply chain : a multi-objective heuristic approach

Creator:: Hamann, Jeff D.
Abstract:: This thesis is a collection of four submitted manuscripts that present methods to assist forest ecosystem service managers wanting to develop operational sampling, monitoring, and production plans for a set of specific quantifiable ecosystem services, which are formulated as a series of general multi-objective optimization problems. The problems are solved...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: (i.e. maximize unharvested area), materials management objectives (i.e. minimize product degredation

Improving productivity through internal contracting

Creator:: Oregon State University. School of Business, Bailes, Jack C., and Edwards, Robert L.
Abstract:: The Northwest forest products industry has been under severe economic pressure for the past several years. Many Northwest forest products companies have gone out of business entirely and others have closed portions of their operations. This monograph describes how one company has instituted a productivity improvement program to reduce its...
Resource Type:: Technical Report
Full Text:: , C.P.A. Arthur Andersen & Co. Studies in Management and Accounting for the FOREST PRODUCTS

Keep it simple

Creator:: Simpson, Doug, Western Dry Kiln Association, and Western Dry Kiln Association. Meeting (55th : 2005 : Reno, Nev.)
Resource Type:: Conference Proceeding

Organizational climate and innovativeness in the forest products industry

Creator:: Crespell, Pablo Javier, 1968-
Abstract:: There has been an increasing realization of the value of innovativeness, the orientation toward innovation, for firms thriving to gain competitive edge. The US forest products industry is no different in this respect and many companies have active initiatives to bring about creativity from their own employees. At the same...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: May 1, 2007. Title: Organizational Climate and Innovativeness in the Forest Products Industry

Corporate social responsibility in the forest products industry : an issues management approach

Creator:: Panwar, Rajat
Abstract:: Business is a social institution and society has always designated a role for business which has been undergoing changes with changing societal values and paradigms. Thus while business has always had some responsibilities, the modern connotation of the words corporate social responsibility commonly refers to business assuming responsibilities in economic,...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: : Corporate Social Responsibility in the Forest Products Industry: An Issues Management Approach

Northwest forestry in transition

Creator:: Oregon State University. College of Forestry, Achterman, Gail, Hampton, John, Early, W. B., and Thomas, Jack Ward
Resource Type:: Conference Proceeding
Full Text:: , Willamina Lumber Company Portland The People Ingredient in Today's Forest Industry

A comparison of three certification systems with the 2005 McDonald-Dunn Forest plan revision

Creator:: Starker, Anna
Abstract:: This study compares the requirements of three forest certification systems, the Sustainable Forestry Institute (SFI), the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), with the 2005 McDonald-Dunn Forest Plan Revision. The analysis was done with a series of matrices comparing the requirements of SFI and FSC...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: M. Starker for the degree of Honors Baccalaureate of Science in Forest Management presented on May

ScholarsArchive@OSU

Lean thinking in the secondary woodproducts industry : challenges and benefits

How to write business plans for forest products companies

Forest certification in North America

Optimizing the primary forest products supply chain : a multi-objective heuristic approach

Improving productivity through internal contracting

Keep it simple

Organizational climate and innovativeness in the forest products industry

Corporate social responsibility in the forest products industry : an issues management approach

Northwest forestry in transition

A comparison of three certification systems with the 2005 McDonald-Dunn Forest plan revision

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