Introducing Forest Hub ®Digitalizing Wood and Fibre Supply

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Future winners drive ecosystems!

…you need to connect different actors in the ecosystem together.

To provide real-time end-to-end supply chain visibility, improved delivery accuracy, stock level optimization and alignment with demand planning

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Wood and Fibre Supply Ecosystem

Wood and

Fibre Supply

Ecosystem

450 transportation

companies650 forest services

companies

1000 harvesting

companies

630 000 forest

owners550 forest industry

companies

Our solution: Forest Hub™

A new ecosystem service providing digital collaboration and transparency in wood logistics and mill reception processes

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Forest Hub – Industry getting together

Enabling ecosystem collaboration - connecting everyone!

Current

• A papiNet messaging hub connecting

actors in fibre supply chain

• Replaces point-to-point

connections

• Enables on-boarding of small actors,

who are not connected today

Forest Hub

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Significant business benefits with Forest Hub

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Management of the inventories

Information quality

Less manual work and errors

Daily operations’ planning and follow-up

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Services

Forest HubGen-1

Forest

companies

Logistics

operators

Other info

sources

Asset owner

domains

Logistics

Mill reception

Transportation

companies

Forest industry companies

and power plants

papiNet

papiNet

• Load message

• Reception message

• Measurement data

message

• Quality control

measurement

Also covers energy wood messages.

Forest Hub supports papiNet, a global transaction

standard for the forest supply chain.

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Financial

Clearing

house

Web Apps for

Small Companies

Log management

Alarms

Data maintenance

Exchange of

B2B Information Basic package

Forest Hub

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Services

Apps

Forest HubVision

Stakeholder

APIs

Internet of

Things

Developer

communities

Interest

Parties

Solution

Providers

Authorities

Forest

companies

Logistics

operators

Other info

sources

Asset owner

APIs

Financial Clearinghouse

Web Apps for Small Companies

Exchange of B2B information

Information Processing

Information Sharing

(API Gateway & Management)

Data Storage / Big Data

Real time sharing

Data Analytics

Business Activity Monitoring

B2B Exchange

Service

Providers

papiNet

papiNet

Forestry

Harvesting

Logistics

Purchase

Mill reception

Transportation companies

Forest services companies

Harvesting companies

Forest owners

Forest industry

companies

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A dedicated

organization of 160

professionals

500 million

business transactions

annually

Focus on

digitizing the connections between business

partners, covering large enterprises, banks,

public authorities, SMEs and consumers

ITIL

based dedicated service

support, 60 FTEs

1 500

direct customers

26 sales partners

having a large customer base

Tieto Forest Hub is based on BIX -

leading B2B cloud service in Europe

Business Information

Exchange

(BIX)

Forest Hub

While based on BIX, Tieto Forest

Hub provides in a cost efficient way

services meeting business continuity

assurance requirements of mission

critical processes.

Gartner Market Guide for Integration

Brokerage (18 September 2015):

“Tieto has been offering IB

services for several years and it has

grown to become the largest IB provider

in Europe by revenue”

Forest Hub - the pioneers’ viewTieto press release on 2017-03-27

”Efficient and modern two-way data

transfer between us and our industrial

partners and customers helps us serve

them even better and also improves our

own operational steering. System open

to all actors is cost-efficient and enables

predicted growth in data transfer”

Olli Laitinen, Metsä Group

Senior Vice President, Development

Wood Supply and Forest Services

“Tieto Forest Hub improves the forest

industry logistics data transfer

capabilities by connecting different wood

supply business partners into a modern

ecosystem. By implementing the Forest

Hub we are able to improve the wood

supply chain together with our partners”

Tomi Simola, UPM

Director, Business Development

Wood Sourcing and Forestry

Metsä Group and UPM have been in production since 2017 June

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Who can join Forest Hub?

All wood supply business partners, from

large forest industry companies to medium

size and small actors.