Modules & Features
TIMBER’s flexible modules are a dream come true.
You need flexible solutions. That’s what TIMBER delivers.
TIMBER is divided into modules, so you can install various functions as your needs change. For instance, you can install one module to fix an immediate need now, then install other modules later. Best of all, all the modules work together seamlessly, so you won’t have to deal with annoying integration glitches down the road.
Contract (Fee Lands) Timber
This module enables forestry companies to manage all related activities before, during and after the purchase of standing timber.
Who Uses It?
- Timber Cruiser, Contract Manager, Cruising Foreman, Logging Operations Manager, Procurement Manager
Benefits At A Glance
- Capture all information related to bidding on Agency or a Seller’s timber
- Digitally store all documents
- Predetermine a required workflow so all tasks are completed quickly
- Define multiple Cruise scenarios to play “What-ifs” for both anticipated Costs and Revenues
- Define multiple Budgets to play “What-ifs” for the Revenue
- Define costs based on each Unit or the whole Contract, for Direct or Indirect, for Stumpage per species and for each intended Destination of End Use Sort (EUS) codes
- Define Harvest Restrictions on defined date ranges with very specific criteria and/or blanket restrictions based on Harvest System and month of year
- View reporting that helps you determine what to bid on the contract
- View reporting for a Cut-out analysis during the contract logging operations and after it’s all complete
Log Flow Forecasting
Commonly known in the industry as WinFall, this module helps forestry companies decide where and when to harvest by analyzing plans, blocks and the impact of market changes. It manages standing timber and provides complex volume forecasting, cost forecasting, and value forecasting models to maximize profitability.
Who Uses It?
- Forestry Engineers, Managers and Accountants
Benefits At A Glance
- Determines which blocks are profitable and which are not, based on current market conditions
- Builds 12-month harvest plans and reduces your cost of planning each forecast
- Powerful “What-if” scenarios help you forecast costing and revenue and improve timber merchandising
- Improves your ability to supply mills with fiber
- Manages harvesting restrictions
- Incorporates road costs
- Provides flexible screen layouts based on contractor, block, sort, destination and more
- Integrates with production or accounting systems
- Integrates with external source data systems to cut down on redundant data entry
- Gives you robust and customizable reporting at the management level, plus task-based pivot table generation
- Significantly reduces redundant data entry with defaults at various divisional levels
- Performs superbly with large data sets and eliminates the need for many cumbersome spreadsheets
- Define your operations to any level based on a divisional tree structure – and allow for Purchasing Division definition
- Determines the required supply based on End Use Sort
Production
Get easy access to large volumes of data with our Production Module. Your data always gets linked back to the source, even after re-sorting loose logs or inturn booms so you always end up with complete reconciliation, costing and profitability of your fiber—from logging to sales. Costing includes the advanced management of contract loggers, with automatic invoices based on flexible contract criteria. For scaling, it provides quick access to your inventory and historical data to help produce buying station invoices, boom cutoff files, loose log inventories, production reports and more
Who Uses It?
- Foresters, Scale Yard Managers, Accountants
Benefits At A Glance
- Imports Loads and Logs data
- Arranges Boom Cutoffs
- Imports and associates Boom Bundle tags
- Manages re-sorted logs from inturned booms or Loose inventory, with the option to allocate costs, waste, trim, etc. to each Re-Sort
- Lets you quickly define and associate Loads to a Camp Boom, Inturned Boom, Re-Sort volume etc. to allow for seamless integration and knowledge of log inputs and outputs for complete cost determination
- Using the Loads and Logs data along with the Project’s Contract rates, automatically generates settlement notes and can quickly print the invoice notes from one screen
- generation can be done based on just one or many Source booms, based on a date range, subvendor, and more
- invoices can be easily changed if the contract rates or other information changes
- produces detailed supporting documents for both sales and contract settlement so contractors know they’re getting proper compensation for their logs
- A project-based contract setup incorporates flexible contract details and stumpage calculation
- allows for brokerage log accounts
- allows for splitting costs between main and sub-contractors
- handles sales and purchase transactions automatically, so ownership is known when multiple vendors own components within one boom
- Can handle numerous contract scenarios with automated or post processing additions to invoice to ensure any contract arrangement is settled correctly.
Timber Manager
Once logs get put into booms, this module manages the inventory and all associated transactions until logs are delivered to a mill.
Who Uses It?
- Log Buyers, Log Sellers, Log Supply Manager, Accountants
Benefits At A Glance
- Easily explore your inventory by various parameters
- Manage boom marketing
- Track all adjustments with boom scale summaries
- Integrate with towing operations
- Get full recording of past and present scale summaries tied to each transaction
- Manage purchases, sales and brokerage transactions
- Access invoices related to each boom
- Import Boom Scale summary from Excel
- Get information on storage history, days in salt water, and more
- Place multiple booms into a barge
- Track digital photos and documents to each boom record
- Sell different components of one boom in different currencies
- Track married booms
- Enjoy full accounting features (AR, AP, Invoicing, Batches, etc.)
- Produce reports for internal and external invoices based on invoice type (such as Log Contract Note vs Sales Invoice vs Brokerage Invoice, etc.)
- Produce month-end reports to balance inventories that are delineated by each transaction type
- Integrate with any accounting package and multiple currencies
- Project-based Contract Management (Timbermarks, Cutting Permits, Sort Codes, Grades, Scale sites, etc.) allows you to track advance payments, miscellaneous invoices, revenue from booms in project, overhead charges and more.
Storage Grounds
If you own or manage boom storage grounds, your life just got easier. This module graphically tracks all internally and externally owned booms, and produce invoices quickly and accurately.
Who Uses It?
- Scale Yard Manager, Towing Operations Personnel
Benefits At A Glance
- Integrates with HELM Log Towing and Data Transfer services
- Integrates with production, sales and mill to manage incoming, outgoing and de-watering of booms
- Provides extensive, flexible invoicing
- Automates boom gear tracking for internally and externally owned gear
- User-friendly MicrosoftTM VisioTM graphical interface helps you map physical locations of booms
- Maps provide seamless management of boom data, including towing, sales and other operations specific to each boom
- Provides fast, customer-specific boom location reporting
- Produces virtually any report you could need
Towing
Effectively manage the movement of log booms via offshore and inland towing, and simplify communications with towing companies through our Data Transfer Service.
Who Uses It?
- Towing Managers, Log Buyers, Accountants
Benefits At A Glance
- Predicts towing charges by defining Rating Areas and rates
- Capture any number of booms in one tow plan—even if each boom has different details for Destination, Release Status, In Care Of, etc.
- Flexible ordering system lets you define each leg of the tow per boom—or you can just let the Tow company courier your goods and handle all the details
- Send tow plans to customers electronically through our Data Transfer Services(link to 3.6), or send via fax. When you use our Data Transfer Service, you will:
- Know the status of tow orders, watch their progress, and receive delivery notices instantly upon completion
- Track any repair charges or other notifications from towing company
- Receive invoices electronically and instantly
Mill Inventory Management
Use this module to effectively manage your mills inventory—because there’s got to be enough coming in to meet the demand of what’s going out.
Who Uses It?
- Procurement Managers, General Mill Managers, Sales
Benefits At A Glance
- Full Management of mill inventories
- Inventory Forecasting
- Works in conjunction with our Log Flow Forecasting module
- Use of Inventory categories to associate mill or scale sort with forecasting or camp sorts
- Determines the required supply based on End Use Sort
B2B Integration
Our experience in the industry tells us it makes sense to have your business systems integrate with those of your customers and other firms you work with. That’s why we made sure that TIMBER-enabled companies can easily synchronize with each other.
TIMBER lets you share information electronically through our Data Transfer Service, removing the redundant and time-consuming process of manual data entry and streamlining your operations. It can significantly free up staff time while reducing errors that happen with typing and hand-writing—making your information more accurate and more relevant.
Who you integrate with depends on what sector you’re in. Simply ask us how your company can benefit from Business to Business Integration, and we’d be happy to see if you’re a good fit for it.
