Our Products
We deliver industry-leading software and hardware solutions for the timber sector. Covering inventory management, process control, supply chain integration, handheld stocktake, order picking, load planning, and document exchange via TimberXchange to help sawmills, re-processors, wholesalers, and distributors streamline operations and grow.
Our Products
We deliver industry-leading software and hardware solutions for the timber sector. Covering inventory management, process control, supply chain integration, handheld stocktake, order picking, load planning, and document exchange via TimberXchange to help sawmills, processors, wholesalers, and distributors streamline operations and grow.
TimberSmartOne
The TimberSmartOne system 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 out 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.
The TimberSmartOne solution covers scenarios as diverse as forestry management to log purchasing, sawmilling wholesaling, manufacturing and electronic data exchange. 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.
Forestry & Log Supply
The Forestry Solution dovetails into log purchasing, and provides where possible integration back into the supplier level who supplies details of the logs.
The Forestry Management solution allows you to represent your relationships for forestry (suppliers, contractors, forestry property, forestry area, and coupes) with associated log costs/royalties, as well as individual costs for Harvesting/Snigger, Hauler and Stumper/Cutter. Your log purchasing is aligned with private or state delivery arrangements giving you excellent visibility of what costs are associated with your log supply. Additionally, where available the log data can be imported via EDI or flat file import if your supplier supports that function. Dashboards and reports always let you know where you are relative to your log supply.
Log Management
The Log Management solution provides log inventory options ranging from recording individual logs (usually hardwood) to those which record by the load (volume or weight, usually softwood).
The Log Management solution is based on delivery agreements (DA’s) and delivery receipts are recorded against these agreements. The TimberSmartOne log inventory system supports tracking of daily processes such as log receipts, rejects, disposals and mill usage information. Extensive reporting is available as well as log stocktakes and supplier invoice (RCTI) generation.
Sawmilling
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 subsequent processes such as treatment, kiln drying, and/or dressing, and docking or treatment. You can use standard or actual costing which accumulates as the product moves through the sawmill, and value is added at each stage. There are extensive inventory management functions, including stocktake via handhelds and dashboards always let you know where you stand quickly and easily.
A key difference in TimberSmartOne, 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 the log to inventory pack. TimberSmartOne also enables individual packs for sale to be identified and allocated to customers with relevant information including quantity, price, and expected delivery date.
The system enables dispatch to plan loads, and advise carriers about loads. Invoices are generated from within TimberSmartOne and can be printed, emailed, or sent by electronic transfer systems such as TimberXchange, and to your preferred financial system.
TimberSmartOne has comprehensive dashboards, querying and reporting capability.
Wholesaling
The Wholesaling Solution includes purchasing, receipting and inventory management through to order processing, order picking, load planning and dispatch, 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.
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 pack 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.
Manufacturing
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.
For our Manufacturing solution, the focus is on planning of input products 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.
Finance Interfaces
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 use your preferred system, and TimberSmartOne as a best of breed overall solution.
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 TimberSmartOne to support credit control during order and dispatch processing, and provide a view of the customer credit/account status to the Sales Team.
Electronic Document Exchange (EDI)
Our TimberXchange solution simplifies transactions with your suppliers (local and international) by sending electronic purchase orders, and receipting packs 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 TimberSmartOne system.
TimberXchange slashes the administration effort related to purchasing, and receipting packs of timber, anyone who has previously manually keyed pack 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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