Paper & Forest Product Inventory Management & Production Planning Software

Paper and Forest Product Manufacturing operations

01 / The Problem - Mill Floor

■ The Problem

Your paper mill
runs on
grade-change friction.

Paper machines that run continuously with grade changes consuming hours of production time. Pulpwood quality varying by species and season. Recycled fibre contamination levels unpredictable. When the machine transitions between grades, the off-spec paper produced during the transition must be downgraded or recycled. Every unplanned grade change costs tonnage.

FalOrb was built for the continuous process demands of paper manufacturing - where machine uptime and grade change efficiency determine profitability.

Pain 01

Continuous Machine Scheduling

Paper machines run 24/7 with planned grade changes. Each grade change produces off-spec transition paper. Scheduling must minimise transitions while meeting order deadlines. No optimisation tool balancing grade sequence with customer delivery requirements.

Pain 02

Fibre Quality Variability

Pulpwood fibre properties vary by species, age, and season. Recycled fibre contamination levels fluctuate by source. Furnish recipes must adjust to incoming fibre quality. No real-time link between fibre quality data and recipe adjustments.

Pain 03

Chemical Additive Management

Dozens of chemicals - retention aids, sizing agents, fillers, dyes - each with specific dosage requirements per grade. Chemical inventories tracked separately from paper machine consumption. Dosage changes for quality adjustment not reflected in inventory projections.

Pain 04

Roll Inventory and Conversion Tracking

Parent rolls converted into customer-specific widths and lengths. Trim waste varies by order mix. No system linking parent roll production to converted roll inventory to customer orders.

Paper and Forest Product Manufacturing platform

02 / The Platform - Built for Paper and Forest Product Manufacturing

■ The Platform

One system from
pulpwood to
converted roll.

FalOrb covers the full paper manufacturing lifecycle. Fibre inventory, chemical additive tracking, process BOM management, machine scheduling, and roll conversion - all connected in one platform.

Every log is tracked. Every chemical addition is recorded. Every roll is inventoried. From fibre receipt through pulping, papermaking, and converting to shipped customer-spec rolls.

■ Platform in Action

See what your
paper and forest product manufacturing operations
look like inside FalOrb.

Real screens. Real layout. Simulated data from a paper and forest product manufacturing facility.

01 / Overview

Operations Dashboard

One screen to see every location, every critical item, every in-transit shipment. Health status propagates from stock to location to the organization level.

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Total Locations

Critical Items

Pending Transfers

Active Alerts

Manufacturing

Active Production Orders

Material Shortages

Products ATP Zero

MRP Shortfalls

Network

Northern Pulp Mill

Production

Healthy

5 low 210 healthy

Timber Yard & Log Storage

Warehouse

Low

2 critical 14 low 178 healthy

Corrugated Board Plant

Production

Healthy

265 healthy 6 surplus

Southeast Paper Distribution

Distribution

Healthy

340 healthy

02 / Production

Production Orders

Full lifecycle tracking from draft to completion. Material status tells you instantly whether the line can run or needs procurement action.

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All 12

Draft 2

Confirmed 3

In Progress 6

Completed 3

Order #	Product	Location	Qty Ordered	Qty Produced	Material	Status
PO-2026-4711	Kraft Linerboard (42 lb)	Northern Pulp Mill	60,000	41,200	Sufficient	In Progress
PO-2026-4712	Bleached Hardwood Pulp	Northern Pulp Mill	35,000	0	Partial	Confirmed
PO-2026-4713	Corrugated Medium (26 lb)	Corrugated Board Plant	80,000	80,000	Sufficient	Completed
PO-2026-4714	Tissue Parent Roll	Northern Pulp Mill	22,000	9,800	Critical	In Progress
PO-2026-4715	Coated Freesheet (80 gsm)	Corrugated Board Plant	45,000	0	Sufficient	Draft

03 / Alerts

13-Type Alert System

Auto-generated, role-routed alerts with one-click acknowledge and resolve. The system detects, you act.

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All 10

Active 8

Acknowledged 3

Resolved 1

	Type	Item	Location	Message	Triggered	Status
▲	Below Minimum	Softwood Chips (Pine)	Northern Pulp Mill	Chip inventory at 11% of minimum; pulp digester feed at risk	25 min ago	Active
▲	Stock Out	Optical Brightening Agent	Northern Pulp Mill	OBA depleted; tissue whiteness target cannot be met	2 hr ago	Active
▼	Quality Hold	Recycled Fiber Bales (OCC)	Timber Yard & Log Storage	Contamination detected in incoming OCC bale lot #TY-0412	4 hr ago	Pending Review
▼	Moisture Alert	Hardwood Logs (Eucalyptus)	Timber Yard & Log Storage	Log moisture content exceeds 55%; drying time extended	6 hr ago	Monitoring
●	Reorder Triggered	Starch (Cationic)	Corrugated Board Plant	Auto-reorder placed for 8,000 kg cationic starch	10 hr ago	Resolved

Module 01

Location Management

Every plant, warehouse, and zone mapped. Multi-site hierarchy with role-based access control across your entire operation.

Module 02

Item & BOM

Multi-level bill of materials with auto-costing. Component tracking from raw input to final assembly with full version control.

Module 03

Production Orders

Material reservation, real-time progress, and variance tracking across every production run. Full lifecycle visibility from creation to completion.

Module 04

ATP Engine

Available-to-promise. Know what you can make and when, before committing to delivery. Real-time calculation against live stock and reservations.

Module 05

Transfer Engine

Structured inter-location transfers. Request, approve, ship, receive - every step recorded in the ledger with full chain of custody.

Module 06

MRP & Procurement

Demand planning across 7, 14, 30, and 60-day horizons. Purchase order lifecycle and supplier management with automated recommendations.

Module 07

Alert System

13 alert types with auto-resolve capability. Role-routed by severity to ensure the signal reaches the person who can act - immediately.

Module 08

Audit Ledger

Immutable. Every movement, every adjustment, every transaction recorded permanently. Nothing is mutated directly. The single source of truth.

■ How It Works

From stockout
to signal in
under a second.

When a critical material drops below threshold, FalOrb doesn't wait for someone to notice. The system detects, alerts, acts, and records - automatically.

Detect

Stock health reclassified in real-time. Four-state system flags the risk level before it becomes a problem.

Alert

The right role receives the alert. 13 alert types ensure the signal reaches the person who can act.

Act

Transfer request routed. MRP recommendation generated. Production order adjusted. Structured workflow, not ad hoc chat.

Record

Every action logged to the immutable audit ledger. Full traceability from detection to resolution.

The control
tower for your
paper mill
operation.

Your paper mill
runs on
grade-change friction.

Inventory & Production

Supply Chain & Operations

One system from
pulpwood to
converted roll.

See what your
paper and forest product manufacturing operations
look like inside FalOrb.

Operations Dashboard

Overview

Production Orders

Production Orders

13-Type Alert System

Alerts

From stockout
to signal in
under a second.

Your paper mill
deserves grade-level visibility.

The controltower for yourpaper milloperation.

Your paper millruns ongrade-change friction.

Inventory & Production

Supply Chain & Operations

One system frompulpwood toconverted roll.

See what yourpaper and forest product manufacturing operationslook like inside FalOrb.

Operations Dashboard

Overview

Production Orders

Production Orders

13-Type Alert System

Alerts

From stockoutto signal inunder a second.

Your paper milldeserves grade-level visibility.

The control
tower for your
paper mill
operation.

Your paper mill
runs on
grade-change friction.

One system from
pulpwood to
converted roll.

See what your
paper and forest product manufacturing operations
look like inside FalOrb.

From stockout
to signal in
under a second.

Your paper mill
deserves grade-level visibility.