{"id":679572,"date":"2024-06-18T05:39:39","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T12:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/?post_type=wherenext&p=679572"},"modified":"2024-07-18T02:13:44","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T09:13:44","slug":"a-smarter-supply-chain-helps-international-paper-track-sustainability-goals","status":"publish","type":"wherenext","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/publications\/wherenext\/a-smarter-supply-chain-helps-international-paper-track-sustainability-goals","title":{"rendered":"A Smarter Supply Chain Helps International Paper Track Sustainability Goals"},"author":501,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sync_status":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","castos_file_data":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"department":[488822],"wherenext-category":[],"industry":[],"class_list":["post-679572","wherenext","type-wherenext","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","department-sustainability-risk"],"acf":{"short_description":"Paper, packaging, and pulp leader International Paper relies on GIS to ensure fiber is sourced sustainably and delivered cost-effectively.","pdf":{"host_remotely":false,"file":"","file_url":""},"flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"Brown boxes are the workhorse of the modern shipping economy and they\u2019re made from one of the planet\u2019s most valuable resources: trees.\r\n\r\nSmaller sized trees are sliced into chips and cooked in digesters to form pulp, which is pressed, dried, and folded\u2014protecting the goods packed into millions of parcels <\/a>shipped daily."},{"acf_fc_layout":"sidebar","layout":"standard","image_reference":null,"image_reference_figure":"","spotlight_image":null,"section_title":"","spotlight_name":"","position":"Left","content":"Snapshot:<\/strong> One of the world\u2019s largest packaging and pulp companies developed a new tool for supply chain visibility called ForSite\u00ae, a combination of satellite imagery, location-specific data, and GIS technology.","snippet":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"In the words of Sophie Beckham, chief sustainability officer at International Paper (IP), cardboard boxes are a low-emotion product made from a high-emotion resource. For IP, one of the world\u2019s largest packaging and pulp companies, taking a sustainable approach to forests as a renewable resource is a bedrock principle.\r\n\r\nBiodiversity loss<\/a> threatens the ecosystems that many industries rely on. In response, natural resource companies are embracing technologies that create supply chain visibility, a precondition for monitoring and mitigating environmental damage.\r\n\r\nIP created an application named ForSite\u00ae that uses geographic information system (GIS) technology<\/a> and satellite imagery to help the company meet one of its Vision 2030 goals: sourcing 100 percent of its fiber\u2014for packaging materials, tissues, and other products\u2014from sustainably managed forests.\r\n

Supply Chain Visibility\u2014Seeing the Forest for the Trees<\/strong><\/h3>\r\nTo educate customers about IP\u2019s environmental practices, ForSite provides detailed supply chain visibility on timber tracts and suppliers. That transparency serves stakeholders both inside and outside the organization.\r\n\r\nFor the company\u2019s foresters, who purchase wooded tracts from loggers and landowners, ForSite supports a rigorous due diligence process. The GIS software at its core<\/a> synthesizes satellite imagery and scientific data, giving foresters a clear picture of areas hosting threatened wildlife and waterways or important flora. With this knowledge, members of IP\u2019s fiber supply organization can determine whether environmental risks are too high to proceed or develop plans to protect biodiversity."},{"acf_fc_layout":"sidebar","layout":"standard","image_reference":null,"image_reference_figure":"","spotlight_image":null,"section_title":"","spotlight_name":"","position":"Right","content":"Related reads:<\/strong>\r\n\r\n\/\/ A thoughtful conversation on what biodiversity is and what it means to businesses<\/a>\r\n\r\n\/\/ How does a global carmaker<\/a> spot supply chain risk?","snippet":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"Beckham and her team have been impressed by the initial results.\r\n\r\nShe explains: \u201cOur early experiences with mapping conservation attributes in a few of our fiber sourcing regions provided further evidence that this kind of technology could strengthen our approach to responsible sourcing, deepen our relationship with suppliers through discussions of land management practices, and highlight our lived commitment to our forestry goals.\u201d\r\n\r\nFor IP\u2019s customers, ForSite\u2019s maps provide a platform for communication and verification that logging is done sustainably. ForSite\u2019s location intelligence<\/a> has also transformed the procurement process, allowing fiber supply teams to assess price, volume, and delivery distances for each tract. Data from ForSite maps feeds dashboards that IP decision-makers consult throughout the purchasing process.\r\n\r\n\u201cSimply put, it helps us make better and faster decisions, and it helps us more quickly and more effectively grow our credibility with customers and other key stakeholders,\u201d says Lee Alexander, IP\u2019s vice president of global fiber supply."},{"acf_fc_layout":"quote","image":679542,"text":"Everything we do is so spatial . . . we needed mapping technology to help us move forward.","author_name":"Jeremy Poirier, International Paper","author_profession_organization":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

How Maps Achieve Supply Chain Transparency <\/strong><\/h3>\r\nIn a recent British study, 67 percent of CEOs said they worry about ESG supply chain transgressions<\/a>. With some companies sourcing raw materials from thousands of suppliers<\/a>, supply chain visibility is a top priority across the business world\u2014and essential to sustainable operations.\r\n\r\nIP primarily works with private forest landowners in the American Southeast. It sources its fiber from sustainably managed forests, some of which are certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)<\/a> or the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) programs. However, the company wanted to assure customers that even if forests were not certified\u2014which can be a burdensome process for many small private forest landowners\u2014suppliers are following sustainable forestry practices.\r\n\r\nThat led Jeremy Poirier, IP\u2019s senior manager of fiber certification and sustainability, and Brian Long, operations planning manager for global fiber supply, to pitch upper management on the concept for ForSite: a platform powered by GIS that could demonstrate IP\u2019s due diligence process to its customers.\r\n\r\n\u201cIt enables us to have a tract-by-tract conversation prior to purchase to verify that . . . sustainable forest management is occurring,\u201d says Long, who helps manage the technology that supports fiber supply teams.\r\n\r\nForSite\u2019s GIS maps show all the active and past timber tracts IP has purchased. A layer on biodiversity data identifies high-value areas where endangered wildlife or priority forest types might be located. If multiple criteria appear in a single area\u2014for instance, contiguous forests with habitat typical of keystone species like longleaf pines or the red-cockaded woodpecker\u2014the map turns red, alerting foresters that the plot needs special attention.\r\n\r\nIn South Carolina, ForSite\u2019s location intelligence guided IP\u2019s collaboration with a landowner to create 350-foot-wide wildlife corridors where white-tailed deer and wild turkeys roam. Location technology has also helped IP protect the habitats of the gopher tortoise, a threatened species important to the Southeast landscape<\/a>. On one timber tract, IP foresters flagged the locations of tortoise burrows prior to harvest to ensure they were protected during pine thinning\u2014a beneficial harvest practice for the animal, which feeds on forest undergrowth.\r\n\r\nSuch supply chain visibility<\/a> helps IP protect biodiversity and promote the sustainable forestry practices its customers expect.\r\n

Building a Smarter Supply Chain<\/strong><\/h3>\r\nWhen Poirier shares ForSite\u2019s maps with customers, they are often impressed at the amount of technological savvy that goes into sustainable sourcing. \u201cWhen they see it in real time, I think it really drives home the commitment,\u201d he says. \u201cIt just makes the whole supply chain come to life.\u201d"},{"acf_fc_layout":"sidebar","layout":"standard","image_reference":null,"image_reference_figure":"","spotlight_image":null,"section_title":"","spotlight_name":"","position":"Left","content":"Inside the Global Factory<\/strong>\r\n\r\nSee what supply chain visibility looks like for your sneakers and clothes<\/a>.","snippet":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"In the past, IP might only have known where wood was coming from on a county level. ForSite\u2019s GIS technology enabled them to trace and review fiber tract by tract.\r\n\r\nThis system of record enables the procurement team to make smarter pricing decisions and ensure cost-effective deliveries. IP managers can consult maps or dashboards to evaluate factors like forest age, ground conditions, and the status of harvesting and thinning, and find contact information for procurement reps. They can determine whether timber prices are fair based on regional comparisons and distance and fuel rates.\r\n\r\nForSite\u2019s supply chain visibility also saves employees trips to the field. Through remote sensing<\/a>, fiber supply team members see that harvesting has begun, and can plan a timely site visit. Managers verify that wood is in fact coming from the location agreed upon with a supplier.\r\n\r\n\u201cIt has made our procurement system more consistent across our entire footprint,\u201d Alexander says. \u201cIt\u2019s allowing us to build an incredibly robust digital procurement library we use for real-time queries to aid in daily decisions.\u201d"},{"acf_fc_layout":"quote","image":679562,"text":"It makes me feel good that we\u2019ve come a long way to be able to help support the forest products industry, record what we\u2019re doing, and show it to folks.","author_name":"Brian Long, International Paper","author_profession_organization":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

When the Supply Chains of Business and Nature Intertwine<\/strong><\/h3>\r\nOne of ForSite\u2019s biggest conservation wins came when during a post-harvest tract inspection, when an IP forester in South Carolina discovered the nest of a swallow-tailed kite within a streamside management zone adjacent to the recent harvest area.\r\n\r\nThe location was logged in ForSite and the forest landowner agreed to allow IP and one of its conservation partners, the American Bird Conservancy (ABC), to catch one of the adult kites and fit it with a transmitter. This allowed IP and ABC biologists to map the kite\u2019s movements in the area and then track its migration from South Carolina to Brazil\u2014an epic journey of thousands of miles.\r\n\r\nIt was a rousing reminder that the supply networks of modern industry are deeply intertwined with the natural supply chains that sustain wild animals, plants, and waterways. GIS technology gives companies like IP a real-time view of operations to ensure that the two worlds can coexist.\r\n\r\n\u201c[ForSite] is an excellent way to connect customers with the value of a working forest,\u201d Poirier says. \u201cIt\u2019s a powerful visual spatial demonstration of how we can responsibly and sustainably source wood fiber to make fiber-based products people depend on every day.\u201d"}],"references":null},"yoast_head":"\nA Smarter Supply Chain Helps International Paper Track Sustainability Goals<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Paper, packaging, and pulp leader International Paper relies on GIS to ensure fiber is sourced sustainably and delivered cost-effectively.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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