Forest Products

Betting Against the Risk of the Outlier: Rethinking Risk Management

2010-05-19T05:00:00Z

A major lesson from the 2008 financial crisis is the recognition of the over-reliance on and shortcomings of value at risk, or VaR, as a risk measure.

Biomass Energy and the Forest Products Industry—Future or Fallacy?

2010-01-22T06:00:00Z

Biomass energy is an area in which many forest products companies already have operating experience, and where they can leverage their core competencies.

Industrial Process Optimization

2009-09-02T05:00:00Z

Cost pressures, environmental issues, the need for sustainable operations and the growing demand for value-added products present constant challenges to industrial companies.

Improving Return on Assets

2009-08-25T05:00:00Z

Manufacturers work constantly to increase asset utilization and reduce loss in the ongoing effort to achieve high performance.

Predictive Selling: A New Approach to High Performance for the Forest Products

2009-07-10T05:00:00Z

The struggling global economy brings particularly challenging times for the forest products industry.

Managing Talent for High Performance in Challenging Times

2009-03-11T05:00:00Z

The environment is one of the most challenging that corporate leaders have seen in their careers.

Strategies for Surviving and Thriving During Challenging Times

2009-03-11T05:00:00Z

In the midst of global demand shocks, sparse credit and an uncertain, interdependent global economy, companies of all sizes are feeling the pressures of the economic downturn.

Trends in Manufacturing Paper Products

2008-07-23T05:00:00Z

The emergence of a world characterized by multiple centers of economic power and activity—a concept Accenture terms the “multi-polar world”—is being driven by three powerful, mutually reinforcing trends:

Paper and Wood Products: Understanding and Achieving High Performance

2007-08-21T05:00:00Z

Many challenges in the forest products industry continue unabated.

Achieving High Performance through a Demand-Focused Operating Philosophy

2007-03-09T06:00:00Z

Demand focus is an operating philosophy for paper and forest products companies that runs counter to the industry's conventional production-driven mentality.

Innovation Excellence: Creating Market Success in the Energy and Natural Resources Sector

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

Read about Accenture’s Stephan Scholtissek book on Innovation Excellence and creating market success in the energy and natural resources sector.

Commodity Trading and Risk Management

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

Commodity Trading and Risk Management services

Advanced Enterprise Solutions for Forest Products from Accenture

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

The Accenture Advanced Enterprise Solution for Forest Products is an innovative, comprehensive and proven enterprise resource planning solution that accelerates enterprise-wide business value for high performance.

Forest Products Industry Services: Overview

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

The forest products industry must overcome overcapacity, increasing price volatility, capital-intensive manufacturing and slow-to-moderate growth in major product lines, with declining demand in some key sectors such as newsprint.

Manufacturing Execution Systems

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

Manufacturers of all types face a rapidly changing business environment

Accenture Plant and Automation Solutions

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

Unleashing Value in Core Operations

European Packaging Paper Producer: High-performance Business Improvement

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

A European packaging paper producer chose Accenture to develop plans for business process improvement and help reduce costs.

European Packaging Producer: Capturing Post-merger Synergies

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

Accenture helped a European packaging producer take advantage of post-merger synergies with procurement business process transformation.

European Paper Producer: Operational Improvement and Supply Chain Transformation

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

A European producer of coated and uncoated paper wanted to reduce both variable and fixed costs so that it could return its UK and French operations to profitability.

European Uncoated Paper Merchant: Conversion/Supply Chain Optimization

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

The client, a European supplier of uncoated papers, sought help in identifying opportunities to improve converting operations and supply chain functions as well as organization to sustain these efforts.

Fibria Três Lagoas Unit PIMS—Horizonte Project: Automation and Industrial Solutions

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

Accenture’s PIMS in Fibria’s Três Lagoas facility communicated with several factory floor systems, improving the pulp production process and product quality.

Latin American Integrated Pulp and Paper Company: Creating a High-performance Organization

Accenture created a new organizational structure for this Latin American pulp and paper company that best fits its business and strategic plans.

Business Process Outsourcing for Indirect Spend

Companies in heavy industries face different types of challenges in today's global economy.