Where SawmillSmart Creates Measurable Value

Increase recovery to reduce effective log cost

For: CFO, General Director, Production Director

The Problem

Raw material costs are one of the largest cost drivers in sawmilling. When planning is done with limited horizon or manual methods, mills often miss yield opportunities hidden in better cut-map and product-mix decisions. Even small improvements in recovery translate directly to margin.

How SawmillSmart helps

SawmillSmart evaluates more combinations and selects plans that improve overall recovery and raw material utilization over time. The multi-week horizon enables production sequences that capture opportunities invisible to short-horizon planning.

Plan production around demand priorities, not only operational convenience

For: Commercial directors, Sales teams, General Director

When sales targets and production planning operate in separate systems, mills risk producing the wrong product mix — overproducing low-priority items while under-serving actual demand.

SawmillSmart incorporates demand and planning priorities directly into the optimization process. Production plans reflect commercial objectives, not just operational convenience.

Build a digital, data-driven planning foundation

For: IT/Digital directors, General Directors, Operations leaders

Many sawmill operations still rely on individual expertise, informal processes, and spreadsheet-based planning. This creates fragility, limits scalability, and makes it difficult to improve consistently.

SawmillSmart provides a structured, data-driven planning workflow that serves as the foundation for broader operational digitalization. Planning decisions become traceable, repeatable, and improvable.