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Main Perspectives on Traceability

Opportunities and Challenges for Traceability Platforms

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Innovative Technologies for Wood-based Products-Traceability and Supply Chain Transparency; Antigua Guatemala, March 2016 Introductory Presentation, Tobias Stäuble

2nd Process Energy Plant Veneer/Plywood Sawmill Flooring

Primary Processing only Log Input

Boardmill Pulp Mill Paper Mill Fuelwood

Primary Processing Log Input and Other Input

Forests and Plantations – legal and illegal harvest

Logs

Post Consumer

Pre-consumer Pre-consumer

Exchange of semi-finished products and pre-consumer material between different mills Logs Logs

Ok, you have seen this a thousand times, but

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Be conscious of the diversity of our sector in terms

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material and supply chain characteristics and keep this in mind during the next two days!

Introduction Slide

Consumer End

Natural Resource Level Primary Processing Secondary Processing Trade/Retail

Downstream/Tracking

An underlying objective of tracking and tracing systems in forestry is to enhance responsible resource use. Monitoring the resource base can be complemented (further incentive, royalty collection) and strengthened by tracking

• systems. Scope of these is necessarily limited

e.g. by the national border. Material flow needs to be captured as comprehensively as possible. Mass balancing at different Critical Control Points (e.g. Road Bottlenecks, Mill Gates) can confirm that sustainable harvest in the monitored resource base was not exceeded. Under which conditions will tracking systems enhance responsible resource use? Comprehensiveness? Dynamics? How can Traceability Platforms help to create these conditions?

The Producer Side Perspective

example scope of tracking system

Consumer End

Natural Resource Level Primary Processing Secondary Processing Trade/Retail

Downstream/Tracking

Traceability systems help to manage claims

• n (finished) products.

Tracing back one single unit shall verify claims on this unit (claims are time bound!) The more often the consumer side asks for verification of claims, the more false claims will be uncovered (given the system works reliably). If there are consequences when tracing uncovers false claims, increased use of traceability systems will drive responsible resource use. Will consumer behaviour and

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demand side actors drive the uptake of traceability platforms?

Upstream/Tracing

The Consumer Side Perspective

Example tracing of a product

Consumer End

Natural Resource Level Primary Processing Secondary Processing Trade/Retail

Traceability Platform

Downstream/Tracking Upstream/Tracing

Traceability is time consuming and costly. An important factor are information availability and data management. Traceability platforms as centralized data management solutions can mitigate the cost

• f traceability, enhance data

availability (and dynamics), thus increasing the benefits of a traceability system. Verifying a product claim (e.g.

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species and

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via querying a traceability platform is one approach among several (DNA, Stable Isotopes…) Which criteria define the status of data derived from a system in the perspective of different actors?

The Role of Traceability Platforms

Consumer End

Natural Resource Level Primary Processing Secondary Processing Trade/Retail

Traceability Platform

Downstream/Tracking

Traceability to the scope limit

• f an acknowledged

tracking system – a minimum requirement for traceability systems? What could be a governance structure for traceability systems, that respects the needs of all users? (e.g. deliver reliable information, cover internal traceability, maintain confidentiality, provide necessary transparency…) How can traceability platforms facilitate the development of such structure?

Upstream/Tracing

Traceability System Design and Governance