Specially Designed for Fiber Supply Management
Pulp mills, paper mills and biomass facilities in the Southern U.S. manage their businesses differently than Canadian sawmills or Australian timber managers but they all use SMSYardBoss. Over 25 years, SMSYardBoss has evolved to handle the many variations in raw material supply chain management practices across all facility and fiber types.
Functions
- Fiber supply contract management and sales agreements for both purchased/owned timber and open market (gatewood) contracts
- Delivered price or unbundled fiber costing to pay an unlimited number of suppliers, landowners, haulers and government fees/taxes off a single load ticket
- Contract-specific or standard rate sheets
- Special payment terms like production advances, lump sums, holdbacks and surcharges
- Settlement/invoice processing on varying pay frequencies (e.g. weekly for truckers and monthly for severance)
- Automatic emailing of vendor settlements/invoices (optional)
- Configurable Order/Quota Management
- Inventory or pile inventory by load or by volume, at actual or average costing
- Estimates for Timber Cruise and Standing Timber Depletion
- Truck management including overload flagging