Elaborating a conceptual collaborative framework: A case study for wood supply chain in North-Shore region in Quebec, Canada

A collaborative framework is proposed in this paper to increase the global productivity and product quality/conformity to improve the business competitiveness of the wood supply chain in North-Shore region of Quebec. The supply chain consists of a number of wood industries performing the first, the second, and the third transformations from wood harvesting to lumber production, paper making, and panel board manufacturing. The proposed solution is a four level hierarchal framework including business and marketing, scheduling and planning, quality control and supervision, and finally process levels. Competence as an encompassing factor for human aspect to implement and operate the proposed collaborative framework is also discussed and scrutinized while technical and technological aspects remain to be discussed for future works.