Project case studies

Client

Stora Enso is a global paper, packaging and wood products company producing newsprint and book paper, magazine paper, fine paper, consumer board, industrial packaging and wood products. Stora Enso’s sales totalled EUR 10.3 billion in 2010. The Group has some 26 000 employees in more than 35 countries worldwide. Stora Enso Wood Supply Finland is responsible for wood procurement in Finland. Totalling about 18 million m3 annually, the wood is supplied to Stora Enso’s mills in Finland.

Challenges

• Since many Stora Enso employees constantly travel between the office and logging areas, the system had to be well adapted to work with mobile Internet.
• All updates made by any employee needed to be immediately reflected throughout the system.
• Data distribution between server and workstation users had to be balanced so that users could work independently outside the office. This feature has to be combined with the possibility of rapid data updates on the server and efficient operation of the system by all users.

Solution

• Creation of planning system module with user-friendly interface
• Module needed to aggregate company’s data on any level
• Client needed module to have a possibility of making amendments to the plan at any time and saving search profiles and grids for later usage

Result

• Reduction of wasted raw materials
• Stora Enso achieved efficient results with a help of the better planning module
• Client’s ability to produce better result in shorter time with a less cost