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A proper record of the actual harvestable resource will be an essential prerequisite for the development of a preliminary harvest plan with the usable sites scheduled for harvest according to age, tonnage and location. A modest amount of harvesting, perhaps 20-40,000 green tonnes per year could be sustained from the existing resource, but to determine a reasonable estimate of the cost of harvesting and transporting this material should be based upon verified site data. A regional industry harvesting plan will also enable the modelling of resource flow over the first cycle of harvest, followed by the coppice regeneration for second and subsequent harvests. Overlaid upon this will be the wave of new planting that should be stimulated by the first cycle of harvesting and biomass payments. The West Australian mallee industry has a number of problems to resolve but new plantings are still being established every year, even though at a modest rate. 6.4.2 Operational planning and modelling Operational or Logistic models are typically used to focus on the supply of product from the field to the processing facility. In the sugar industry this has focused on reducing harvest to crush delays, improving capacity utilization, improving scheduling to match delivery to mill crushing capacity. These models describe the path followed by a consignment of cane with the aim to pinpoint bottlenecks (Gaucher et al 2003). Changes in the supply chain can be evaluated with a detailed description of the tasks of handling and delivering the material. Information is based on cutting, loading, transport equipment (size, number, hourly capacity, work schedule, distance, speed, downtime, etc). The approach can be used to investigate • impact of restructuring the supply system, e.g. by closing or opening transloading centres to modify distance from fields, • introducing new harvesting, transport and milling equipment, or • changing delivery allocations to match the harvest capacities of growers. In the Mallee Industry a logistics modelling approach has been adopted by McCormack et al (2009) who have modelled the cost per green tonne delivered to the mill based on various harvesting and transport options. This work highlights the operational difficulties in the Mallee Woody crop supply chain and was discussed in Section 3.2.3 of this report. Operational issues include: • The Plant itself (Small stem size, poor presentation to harvester with multiple crooked stems and high wood density) • Field layout (Two to four row belts, 100-200m apart with low yield of 40-80gt/ha of belt or 100-400 green tonnes per farm and long transport distances to roadside landing of 1-4km) • Harvest/Handling issues (difficulties in pouring, tipping and handling wood chips and associated leaf and twig and low bulk density). The logistics work undertaken by McCormack et al (2009) provides a start for conceptual logistics modelling. Chapter 7 of this report provides a comparative assessment of costs of harvest and transport of mallee based on current sugarcane harvest-haul models. 6.5 Models for Supply Chain Planning and Management - Examples for Sugarcane In Australia sugarcane supply chain modelling, planning and management tools have looked at a range of aspects as detailed in Higgins and Archer (2005) including: 149
• Harvest and transport logistics. • Business integration, information transparency and assessment of new payment formulas. • Assessment of product diversification and new markets through co-generation. This section provides a brief overview of these tools with some examples of their application in specific mill areas. The key message is that modelling provides a powerful tool to assess supply chain development and management, however, it needs to be site and situation specific and does not always ensure adoption for the reasons discussed in section 6.1 to 6.3. Most research has focused on logistical opportunities, particularly in the harvesting and transport sectors which provide more challenges than other sectors. Opportunities such as harvester/siding rosters, time of window harvesting, scheduling have benefits that are easy to quantify and assess and can be adopted without extensive changes to current systems (Higgins and Archer, 2005). Non logistical opportunities have focused on increased information transparency, building new markets or business process integration. While there have been many models developed within the Australian sugar industry they generally only consider activities or processes in a single sector (see Table 6.1). It is only relatively recently that there has been development of multi-sector models, focussing on the interface between the harvesting and transport sectors. Thorburn et al (2006) applied these modelling techniques in a participatory environment to allow groups within mill regions to more thoroughly evaluate diversification options of their sugar value chains in their region, and so move forward with more confidence and greater understanding than would have occurred with previous approaches. Table 6.1 Examples of the processes that have been modelled within the different sectors of the Australian sugar industry (Thorburn et al 2006). Sugarcane production Harvesting Transport Milling/Factory • Cane and sugar growth, responding to: − Nitrogen − Irrigation − Trash blanket dynamics • Statistical CCS and cane yield estimation • Harvest haul model • Harvesting group roster optimisation • Harvesting group-tosiding optimisation • Capacity planning tools for transport • Road transport schedule optimisation • Siding location and pad optimisation • Rail transport schedule optimisation and schedule checking simulation models • Raw sugar manufacture • Cane handling • Trash separation • Co-generation Underpinned by: • GIS techniques • Database techniques for whole-of-industry models • Field and satellite information • GPS and vehicle tracking 150
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Sustainable Biomass Supply Chain fo
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Foreword This report provides an as
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include business development (new p
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Acknowledgments The authors would l
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4.1 Product Options and Supply Chai
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Table 4.2 Assessment of current val
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Figure 3.4 Tracked rigid self-prope
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Executive Summary What the report i
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• Biomass production potential of
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Harvesting, transport and storage s
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Key barriers to biomass industries
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Crop-Biomass Production Production
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Figure 1.1 The cropping and pasture
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Table 1.1 Mallee species used for p
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Carbon sinks Planting of mallees to
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Mallee system Most of the mallee bi
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inconclusive result may have been d
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Dry Leaf 6.1 - 3.5 17.0 58.9 53.2 T
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Total 7.5-26 16.5 Mallee System The
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external factors dramatically impac
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