Located in the municipality of Belo Horizonte, eastward of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, Celulose Nipo Brasileira, known simply as Cenibra, has 254 thousand hectares area planted with Eucaliptus and native species, where the company's operations generate an enormous amount of information, key to guiding the decision-making process. To make this information reach the teams in a faster and more assertive way was the challenge faced by INFLOR along the development of the Mobility in Silviculture Project, terminated in the end of 2016.
Odair da Silveira Gonçalves, Inflor's PMO and head of the project, explains that the solution implemented was elaborated by Inflor's GIS/Mobile Suite, GISagri Operations, INFLOR's communication hub and INFLOR's Forest System for SAP®, known at Cenibra as GPF (Forest Process Management).
The app will replace the need for manual records (on paper) of over 11.000 monthly newsletters on Silviculture. This operation demanded a few days to be completed, until the information could be fully available. With the solution developed by Infllor, the information will be made available in the morning following the day in which it was generated.
The solution will allow for the field operations to be followed more efficiently and closer to execution, with notes being directly released onto the GPF, from a cell-phone or a tablet. Cenibra uses the devices in the following office locations: Rio Doce (Belo Oriente, Ipaba and Pompeu regions), Guanhães (Sabinópolis and Virginópolis) and Nova Era (Cocais, Piracicaba and Santa Bárbara), all of them located in the state of Minas Gerais.
Of the various benefits the solution offers, Odair Silveira Gonçalves highlights the communication standardization through the different areas of the company, the end-to-end information exchange tracking, data access & system access control, among others.
The app is currently in use in 10 devices, involving about 15 people (coordinators, office technicians and leaders), and may reach 150 people when the usage is initiated by the field teams and in the tractors of the Silvicultural process, scheduled for mid-2017.
Ronaldo Ribeiro, CENIBRA's CIO, declares that this is an innovative project and brings the reality of forest operations closer to the centralized management system. This project is one of the IoT's (Internet of Things) concept application, with the purpose to improve corporate results. "The partnership between Cenibra and INFLOR, consolidated in various other projects, has provided great advances to our forest management", adds Ribeiro.
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