OPPLAN CTS

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OP-PLAN / CTS
OPeration PLAN / Cost Tracking System
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Annual Operational Planning Objectives

• Goal is to produce a detailed, implementable
  operational plan, schedule and budget that
  adheres to goals and constraints of all other
  planning levels
• Operational plan should have all of the elements
  of the tactical/operational plan, but the
  scheduling details should be such that
  coordination is facilitated, implementability is
  assured and risks are reduced
• The operational budget is directly linked to the
  operating plan (cause/effect)

OBJECTIVES
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Annual Operational Planning Requirements

• Requires schedule from the tactical/operational
  planning process
• Require information similar to that used at the
  tactical/operational planning level (forest
  inventory, productions systems, market
  requirements), though level of detail may often
  be increased
• Requires more detailed costing information
• Requires expertise of knowledgeable
  on-the-ground manager who is able to verify
  that the plan is implementable

REQUIREMENTS
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Annual Operational Planning Solution

• Used to produce detailed schedules of harvesting,
  hauling, roading and silviculture operations
• Used as the basis for day-to-day monitoring of
  operations during the operating year
• Used to produce a detailed, well-documented
  budget which can be compared to actual
  expenditures for control purposes
• The Annual Operational Planning solution is
  OP-PLAN (OPeration PLAN)

SOLUTION
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OP-PLANs place in IFMS
Long-Term Strategic Planning
Tactical/Strategic Planning
Forestry Information
Tactical/Operational Planning
GIS
Annual Operational Planning - Detailed scheduling
of activities - Detailed budgeting - Analysis of
implementability - Closely linked to operational
control systems
Annual Operational Planning
Annual Operational Planning
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OP-PLAN

• Integrated Operation Planning Decision Support
  System
• Harvesting
• Wood Transport
• Road Construction and Maintenance
• Silviculture
• Support Functions
• Used for analyzing, planning, scheduling of all
  operations

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OP-PLAN Reports

• Plans can be developed quickly and changed
  quickly for sensitivity analyses
• Plan results can be available to GIS for map
  display
• Produces reports on costs, profits, resource
  usage at any time in the planning process
• Reports can be seen as tables or graphs

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OP-PLAN Navigator
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Budget based upon operational planning decisions
in OP-PLAN
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Operational Control Approaches

• Many forestry organizations have tried to depend
  upon accounting systems for operational control
• Unfortunately, accounting systems are usually
  designed for financial, rather than managerial
  control
• Besides being too inflexible, the stringency of
  financial accounting rules often means that
  accounting information is made available too late
  to properly monitor and control operations

APPROACHES
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Operational Control Objectives

• The best planning is of no avail if there are no
  proper control systems in place to ensure that
  plans and schedules are actually being followed,
  and that the operations are on-budget
• Operational control is also used to track
  outcomes so as to identify problems or
  opportunities which require re-planning

OBJECTIVES
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Operational Control Requirements

• Must have the operational plans, schedules and
  budgets available
• Requires the gathering, storing and processing of
  data concerning resource usage, costs and
  productions results

REQUIREMENTS
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Operational Control Solution

• A more flexible system for the monitoring of
  resource usage, production, revenues and costs is
  required
• Such a system must be closely tied to the
  operational planning system
• The Operation Control solution is CTS (Cost
  Tracking System)

SOLUTION
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CTSs place in IFMS
Long-Term Strategic Planning
Tactical/Strategic Planning
Forestry Information
Tactical/Operational Planning
GIS
Annual Operational Planning
Operational Monitoring Control - Detailed
reporting on operational results - Detailed cost
tracking - Comparison of costs performance to
budget and plan
Operational Monitoring Control
Operational Monitoring Control
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CTS

• Cost Tracking System for controlling forest
  operations
• Tracking of costs, production, revenues,
  man-days, etc.
• Costs, production and revenues can be compared to
  OP-PLAN plan and budget
• Reports can be seen as tables or graphs

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Cost Tracking System
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Actual cost results from data entered in CTS
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Comparison in CTS of actual costs to date to
budget from OP-PLAN