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The Hidden Cost of Inventory Uncertainty in Timber Operations

For many timber businesses, inventory uncertainty doesn’t appear as one major operational failure — it shows up quietly in the background of day-to-day operations. It’s the extra time spent validating stock before committing to a customer order. The manual checks between the yard and the office. The hesitation around whether inventory data is fully accurate. […]

Can You Trust Your Inventory Data?

Discover how real-time inventory visibility helps timber businesses improve pack tracking, reduce manual work, and increase operational efficiency.

Fuel Surcharges in the Timber Industry: Managing Pricing During Global Instability

Ongoing conflict and instability across key regions have pushed fuel markets into a cycle of volatility. Diesel prices are no longer moving gradually. They’re reacting quickly to global events — supply disruptions, trade pressure, and uncertainty. For timber businesses, that flows straight through to freight. Margins tighten. Pricing becomes harder to manage. And fuel surcharges […]

Why Generic ERP Systems Struggle in Timber Operations

The timber industry has changed dramatically over the past few decades. What was once driven by manual processes and paper-based systems has evolved into a fast-moving, highly connected environment where accuracy and visibility are essential. As operations grow, so does the complexity behind them, and for many timber businesses, their systems simply have not kept […]

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Electronic Document Exchange (EDI)

TimberSmart One solution, timbersmart Australia

What is the TimbersmartOne Electronic Document Exchange (EDI) solution?

Our TimberXchange solution simplifies transactions with your suppliers (local and international) by sending electronic purchase orders, and receipting packets via download into your system. Similarly, your customers can benefit by placing their purchase orders electronically into your system, and receipting your invoices into their TS1 system. 

How it works

TimberXchange slashes the administration effort related to purchasing, and receipting packets of timber, anyone who has previously manually keyed packet tallies into their system and then moved to a simple electronic import never looks back. Product mapping between customers and suppliers ensures that the right product is ordered, delivered and receipted into your system. As awareness of the benefits of EDI have grown over time, many customers now insist on some form of this to reduce administration effort across their business.  Customers that sign up are often surprised by the coverage of suppliers we can provide for both local and imported products.

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Finance Interfaces

TimberSmart One solution, timbersmart Australia

What is the TimbersmartOne Finance System?

The Finance Solution reflects that over the years, finance systems like XERO and MYOB have developed into great desktop and cloud solutions, and we have read this trend and developed finance interfaces that allow you to sue your preferred system, and TimberSmart is a best of breed overall solution.

How it works

Our Finance Interfaces range from XERO, MYOB, SAGE, Intacct and Reckon and cover desktop and cloud/online versions, we can work with your business to accommodate the finance system you use. Most customers send customer invoices to the finance system for credit management, accounts receivable and reporting, and some bring customer information back into TimberSmart to support credit control during order and despatch processing, and provide a view of the customer credit/account status to the Sales Team.

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Manufacturing

TimberSmart Australia Manufactoring solution worldwide timber solutions

What is the Manufacturing Solution?

The Manufacturing Solution supports further processing operations such as moulding, treatment, docking, components, finger jointing, lamination or painting/priming where you can transform timber into value added components. With a focus on jobs, and costing we can provide reporting that track your, inputs, outputs, recoveries and margins so you remain competitive and maintain your profit margins.

How it works

In our Manufacturing solution, the focus is on purchasing of products to obtain the required feedstock, receipting and managing inventory combined with production runs/orders that represent the target product(s). As inputs are issued to the production run, we accumulate costs in line with the activities and as receipts occur, we can track recoveries, and expected production versus actuals. In some scenarios, BOM’s represent the planned combination of inputs to product the target product, for example pallet manufacturing which simplifies the planning and consumption of multiple inputs. Dashboard and comprehensive reports let you know where you are at all times.

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Wholesaling

TimberSmart Australia Wholesaling solutions for the timber industry

What is the Wholesale solution?

The Wholesaling Solution includes purchasing, receipting and inventory management through to order processing, order picking, load planning and despatch, we understand that customer relationships and providing quick turnaround times for order to fulfilment is critical. You will have access to the key information you need, when you need it so you can expedite the process.

How it works

In our Wholesaling solution, purchasing in product either locally or importing with pricing by supplier and product a key function, price lists simplify management and dashboards track progress of purchases v receipts, including inbound vessels and containers. A huge advantage many of our customers enjoy over other solutions is the use of EDI which dramatically slashes administration effort across purchasing, and innovatory receipting. Purchase orders can be sent via EDI, and inbound packets can be receipted via a simple interface with key information including the tally. With a shorter order to fulfillment cycle, the focus is on order entry, order management and streamlined order picking using handhelds to reduce the paperwork keyed back in the office.

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Sawmilling

What is the Sawmilling solution?

The Sawmilling Solution follows the flow of the timber through the mill. It begins with log inventory, flows through the Green Mill, Kilns, Dry Mill, Treatment, and Docking through to finished goods, inventory management, order processing, order picking, load planning and despatch. You can use standard or actual costing which accumulates as the product moves through the sawmill, and value is added at each stage. Dashboards always let you know where you stand quickly and easily.

How it works

The Sawmilling solution follows the flow of the timber through the mill. It begins with log inventory, flows through the primary cutting processes in the Green Mill and ends in the production of sawn timber at the bin sorter or on the green table. The system then tracks and accumulates costs associated with the pack of timber as they pass through the subsequent processes such as treatment, kiln drying, and/or dressing and treatment. A key difference in TS1, compared to standard ERP systems, is how timber is tracked through processes which completely consume the issued pack, this history is recorded when the new pack is created providing a complete history from log to inventory packet. TS1 also enables timber available for sale to be identified and allocated to customers with relevant information including quantity, price, and timing. The system enables dispatch to plan loads, advise carriers about loads. Invoices are generated from within Ts1 and can be printed, emailed, or sent by electronic transfer systems such as TimberXchange. The system has comprehensive querying and reporting capability.

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TimberSmartOne

TimberSmart One solution, timbersmart Australia

What is the TimberSmartOne (TS1) system?

The TimberSmartOne system (TS1) is our flagship ERP solution, it has grown over many years into a comprehensive modular based product, while we have our core solution, we often find our customers are so varied in their business focus that they may use more or less of the entire system. We work with them during implementations to streamline and tweak reporting to provide exactly what they need.

How it works

The TimberSmartOne solution covers scenarios as diverse as forestry management to log purchasing, sawmilling wholesaling, manufacturing and electronic trading. As such, while the system looks similar across most of our customers, there are key differences which result in different ‘flavours’ as below, and some customers may run one or more of these in combination depending on their scope of operations. We are always ready to work with our customers to deliver the system configuration they need to be successful.

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