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TimberSmart Australia is a Melbourne based ERP (enterprise resource
planning) software company focusing on the Timber Industry Sector

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What is TimberSmart Australia?

TimberSmart Australia was founded in 2000, and we have rapidly grown to be the leader in innovative software solutions for sawmillers, wholesalers and re-processors throughout Australia, New Zealand and beyond.

What began as a niche product for the sawmill industry has now become the preferred choice by customers in the Sawmilling and Timber sector, who are looking for the best solution, outstanding support and service with an experienced based appreciation for the timber industry.

Our system is constantly improving based on the collaboration between our staff and our customers who are looking for the most effective solution to handle a wide variety of timber related business scenarios including sawmilling, wholesaling, further processing, pallet manufacturing and Frame & Truss operations.

While other ERP vendors cover a range of industry and product solutions, we focus on what matters to you, we speak your language and understand the challenges of managing timber related inventory and transactions with your suppliers and customers. Our solution has been designed for, and in partnership with Timber sector users.

Our system is specifically designed for Timber products and will do what you need, usually with some minor adjustments to suit and reflect your operations and processes specific to your business.

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Why Choose Us?

One of our major value points is TimberXchange which uses EDI to integrate the flow of information with your key business partners, you can place electronic purchase orders, receipt stock (packs and tallies) from your suppliers and send electronic delivery notes and invoices to your customers slashing the effort and overhead to handle timber transactions.

Similarly, our handheld scanners perform a wide range of tasks in the yard, removing the need to write up manual sheets for processing back in the office, stocktakes, inventory queries, order picking, load processing, treatment and kiln processing can all be done on our versatile, and easy to use scanners.

With the TimberSmart ERP platform powering your business, you can be assured that your trusted software partner understands what you need to operate efficiently, and help streamline your processes for better outcomes.

We talk your language, we understand how this industry sector works, and we’re ready and able to assist you as required.

Whether, you are a sawmiller, wholesaler, manufacturer or a further processor we can assist in your business evolution and journey.

What Our TimberSmartOne Solution Includes

What our TimberSmart Solution Includes

Our TimberSmartOne solution includes: inventory management, process control and systems integration across a variety of platforms, a wide range of reports across your key processes and metrics, especially for: sales, production, inventory and dispatch via dashboards, individual reports and excel pivot tables, plus custom reports as required to meet your needs.

We can integrate into your preferred financial system, to provide a comprehensive whole of business solution.

Our system is flexible, and we’re often asked to cover scenarios that are unique to one customer, and require a bespoke solution.

Providing a flexible deployment structure, you can operate a single or multi-branch environment, with the mill or business structure that suits you, including work centres, yard and locations.

We can track production from log purchasing and inputs through the Green Mill, Dry Mill, Treatment, Stock-take and further processing, you’ll be able to see the complete history for any finished goods packet or loose stock, including relevant industry certifications.

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Timber Management ERP Software

Designed by the Timber Industry for the Timber Industry

We know that the Timber Industry sector has very specific requirements: multiple UOM’s, pack tallies, pack tracking and history, conversion factors, and EDI to name a few. Our ERP system was built specifically to accommodate how you plan, operate and execute your business processes, and suits a single site or multi-branch environment or both. 

Why compromise when choosing an ERP system, your system should speak your language, and reflect the way you run your business. A responsive ERP vendor will work with your business, and streamline their system, not the other way round.

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Export Management

For log exporters, we have a separate TCMS product specifically designed to manage export shipments

EDI Integration

EDI sends/receives electronic versions of your PO, deliveries and invoices, slashing admin effort, and time

Forestry Data Capture

Forestry Supplier, harvester collates and send log information

Log Yard Receipts

Log yard receipts logs (barcode for individual) or via bulk log take-on

Greenmill Processing

Greenmill processes logs against production runs, records receipts and recoveries

Kiln Drying

Kilns process green timber into dry timber for further processing

Drymill Processing

Drymill process boards against production runs, records, receipts recoveries

Inventory Management

Inventory management, stocktakes, sales order processing and order picking

Load & Invoice Processing

Load planning, truck management and invoice processing

Proof of Delivery

Custom Receipt with optional Proof of Delivery

Handheld Scanning

Handheld scanners process transactions in yard, not in the office!

Export Management

For log exporters, we have a separate TCMS product specifically designed to manage export shipments

Forestry & Log Supply

Forestry Supplier, harvester collates and send log information

Log Yard

Log yard receipts logs (barcode for individual) or via bulk log take-on

Greenmill Processing

Greenmill processes logs against production runs, records receipts and recoveries

Kiln Drying

Kilns process green timber into dry timber for further processing

Drymill Processing

Drymill process boards against production runs, records, receipts recoveries

Inventory Management

Inventory management, stocktakes, sales order processing and order picking

Load & Invoice Processing

Load planning, truck management and invoice processing

Proof of Delivery

Customer Receipt with optional Proof of Delivery

Handheld Scanning

Handheld scanners process transactions in yard, not in the office!

EDI Processing

EDI sends/receives electronic versions of your PO, deliveries and invoices, slashing admin effort, and time

Systems Integration

Systems Integration connects with a wide range of 3rd party applications you need to report on.

Data Warehouse

Data warehouse combines large data sets into consolidated FACT tables so you can easily analyse trends across wider data sets and time frames in PowerBI and Excel.

What Our Customers Say

People who’ve come from other timber campanies using a different stock system have said Timbersmart is by far the easiest to use. Its easy to navigate around and the back-up service is spot on.
Andy Forster
Andy Forster
Tasman KB has enjoyed a very successful partnership with Timbersmart over the past six years. Since its implementation, Timbersmart has been a key element of the company’s growth across all States. The system is scalable, user friendly, logical and is ideal for a contemporary timber wholesaler or manufacturer. The system is supported by expert staff who are responsive, customer focused, friendly and fully committed to the provision of appropriate business solutions.
Noel Hopper - Chief Financial Officer
Noel Hopper - Chief Financial Officer
TimberSmart is a simple yet powerful core operational system at AKD, supporting key business functions and plays a vital role in managing the timber lifecycle for the company. We value TimberSmart’s flexibility and responsiveness, which allow us to adapt quickly to operational needs and enhance efficiency across our network.
Eddy Chong
Eddy Chong
Timbersmart is highly functional and very intuitive to use. We have had the benefit of using it across our sites for 15+ years, and are still finding ways to utilise its functionality to improve our operations. Highly recommended!
John
John
The TimberSmart team are a pleasure to work with, when setting up our customised system they spent many hours and provided great support to ensure that our program was customised how we needed. Their ongoing tech support is always appreciated, they always respond quickly with a fast resolution to any problem. We highly recommend TimberSmart to any processing inventory system, a professional and very supportive company.
Fleur Coakley
Fleur Coakley
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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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