Effiziente Kommunikation, Koordination und Kooperation im Netzwerk Holz dank IFIS – ein neues integriertes und webbasiertes Informationssystem | IFIS: a new integrated and web-based information system for efficient communication, co-ordination and co-operation in the wood network

The globalisation of wood markets is bringing substantial adjustments to the logistics of the forestry and wood sectors. Suitable, branch-specific data solutions to set up an efficient supply chain and for marketing purposes, which illustrate,as cheaply and as simply as possible, the network of all participants involved and support the co-ordination,communication and co-operation between them, as well as the internal functionality of the individual partners in the network, have been lacking until now. This is why, in close collaboration with the software company Ramco Systems Ltd. with its particularly future-oriented conceptual solutions,the Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL) and practicing foresters are working on a component and web-based system «IFIS». The system is being conceived, developed and tested as an extremely flexible and cost-efficient system of information. One innovative aspect is that it offers a business model in the shape of an associative solution. The system will be on offer at the end of 2006.