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Norwegian forestry is facing major changes. The competition is increasing; there are significant shifts in the market, and many forest owners have less experience from forestry than before. A unique map solution from Tieto is now launched to make forestry faster and more efficient.

Allma is a co-operation between Allskog, Mjosen Skog and AT Skog, and it accounts for more than 30 percent of the timber revenue in Norway. They have now chosen Tieto to develop a map solution intended for web and mobile phones for forest owners, forestry leaders and entrepreneurs.

“We wanted to collaborate with Tieto because of their comprehensive knowledge regarding forestry and their ability to provide all consultancy, design and IT solutions that are necessary for develop the next version of Allma. We want them to be a partner in our effort to develop even better, more available and cost efficient solutions for the forestry,” says Erik A. Dahl , CEO of Mjosen Skog and member of the Board of Directors, Allma.

Increasing efficiency

Norwegian forestry has a considerable unused raw material potential, but at the same time the high costs of the country pose a great challenge. Tieto’s map solution for web and mobile phones is based on a market leading map engine (Esri) and will, to a large extent, contribute to increased efficiency in terms of forestry.

“More accurate planning and research in terms of forest, forestry plans, signed deals and potential deals is the key to better customer service and productivity. The service we are now able to provide is unique and at the same time easy to use,” says Kolbjørn Haarr , Managing Director and Executive Vice President at Tieto Norway.

The map solution is a tool which can be used to schedule more customer contacts, to get more work done when out on inspections as well as to find and register new potential contracts directly. This saves a lot of time.

“The solution is aimed to help less experienced forest owners to better understand forestry and how they can get more value from their forest. It should also be an efficient aid for experienced forest owners. Automation and less manual steps increase efficiency, competitive advantages and cost reductions,” says Haarr.

For further information, please contact:

Kolbjørn Haarr, Managing Director, Tieto Norway, Executive Vice President, Telecom, Media and Energy and New Markets, Tieto Corp, +47 970 57 834, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Erik Andreas Dahl, CEO Mjosen Skog SA, +47 934 12 418, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 

Trude Martinsen Brun, Head of Marketing and Communications, Tieto Norway, +47 905 52 823, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

TIETO CORPORATION

Tieto is the largest Nordic IT services company providing full life-cycle services for both the private and public sectors and product development services in the field of communications and embedded technologies. The company has global presence through its product development business and global delivery centres. Tieto is committed to developing enterprises and society through IT by realizing new opportunities in customers’ business transformation. At Tieto, we believe in professional development and results.

Founded 1968, headquartered in Helsinki, Finland and with approximately 14 000 experts, the company operates in over 20 countries with net sales of approximately EUR 1.6 billion. Tieto’s shares are listed on NASDAQ OMX in Helsinki and Stockholm. Please visit www.tieto.com for more information.

ALLMA is Short for ALL skog, Mjosen Skog and AT Skog. These are the forest companies behind the development of Allma. The foundation of Allma is a modern database for storage and production of forestry planning data (Allma Plan). Allma property collects data from this database, and is the forest owner’s tool for optimal forest management. Based on the same model, Alma District is developed as the companies’ district service.

Tieto provides Swiss paper specialist Cham Paper Group Schweiz AG a cost efficient and easily managed cloud solution for creating and optimizing cutting plans for the pulp and paper industry. Web Trim’s Software as a Service solution allows Cham to focus on its core business without any local installations or need to maintain its own IT infra.

Trim is an optimization module of Tieto Integrated Paper Solution TIPS, which is the leading sales, logistics and manufacturing execution system for the pulp and paper industry.  

Cham and Tieto have been working together for more than 15 years. Cham had the need to update its old release of TIPS Trim to the newest Trim application. Tieto suggested that Cham start using Web Trim as Software as a Service, which allows the company to concentrate on its core business while Tieto takes care of the IT infrastructure.

“With this solution, we do not have to invest in our own software and hardware. We can focus on our core business and reduce our IT costs significantly. The collaboration with Tieto has been very constructive and efficient. The support after the implementation has been excellent,” says Markus Keiser, Head of Operations at Cham.

With Web Trim’s Software as a Service solution, the application will always be up to date without any upgrade projects or installations.

“This additional delivery confirms our assumption that there is an increasing demand for cloud applications in the paper industry as well,” says Stefanie Richter, Continuous Service Manager at Tieto Germany GmbH.

Tieto has successfully delivered Tieto Integrated Paper Solution TIPS Trim to Lee & Man Paper Manufacturing Ltd, a world leading paper and pulp manufacturer based in China. The project includes 18 paper machines in five locations: Dongguan, Jiangsu, Chongqing, Jiangxi, and sites in Vietnam.

TIPS Trim system integrates with Lee & Man's sales system. It offers several benefits on time and cost savings. "TIPS Trim is exactly the software to optimize the cutting plan. In most cases, TIPS Trim creates a plan to satisfy the needs of edge control, order fulfilment and mill specific requirement by click on one button," comment the users from Jiangsu and Chongqing sites. "TIPS Trim helps on controlling edge waste," emphasize the users on Dongguan site.

"We are very proud of this deal, which confirms TIPS to be a leading MES solution also outside our traditional home markets in Northern Europe. We offer a standard paper industry specific solution with rich functionalities and proven ERP integration capability. Our many references of successful deliveries in both the local and global market minimize Lee & Man's risk in the investment," says Timo Jäätvuori, Sales Director for TIPS at Tieto.

Tieto Integrated Paper Solution TIPS provides a proven real-time operations management solution by seamlessly linking planning, business operations, and production processes of a pulp and paper company. It combines the functionality and the best practices of our previous advanced Sales and MES system deliveries with over 40 years' experience and offers management of the whole order-to-cash value chain. TIPS Trim is an integral part of the solution that helps create and optimise cutting plans.

Tieto launches release 13.4 of Tieto Integrated Paper Solution TIPS, which is a comprehensive sales, logistics and production management solution for the pulp, paper, board and tissue industries.

The handling of TIPS is changing from functional based to workflow driven and 13.4 now contains the first restructured modules. Therefore it is easier and faster to use, and business relevant information is always shown in the right context.

Release 13.4 has e.g. an improved planning function that will guarantee a faster system with lower response time for selected planning operations. The customer will also have a better overview of the loading situation which leads to faster loading, less waiting time for the trucks and better usage of ramps and fork lift trucks. The automated functions will also contain truck dispatch self service to allow the drivers to get the necessary papers themselves, saving time and personnel. Production and delivery planning can now be viewed in one screen to detect possible problems earlier on in the process. This will lead to more accurate delivery times and more optimized planning and delivery, and ultimately more satisfied customers. The new release also gives increased access to business critical data through several mobile apps.

The new product release brings user experience to a new level as the TIPS software will help the user to automatically bring possible error data into the ticket tool. The ticket tool in turn is further integrated with TIPS online user community. The community is a service and communication channel for all TIPS users. It gives customers relevant information about TIPS and related topics and helps them to communicate with Tieto.

"We have put a lot of effort into developing TIPS to better support our pulp and paper industry customers in their business. Our product roadmap focuses on development that will transform the solution on several levels from the service model to workflows and further to the technical details. The new release 13.4 is a big step towards a new level of customer service to the paper companies and paper mills," tells Christian Hamp, offering owner of TIPS.

Tieto Integrated Paper Solution TIPS provides a proven real-time operations management solution by seamlessly linking planning, business operations, and production processes of a forest company. It combines the functionality and the best practices of four previous advanced Sales and MES systems and over 30 years experience and offers management of the whole order-to-cash value chain.

Mondi Syktyvkar, a leading pulp and paper company in Russia, has chosen the Tieto Integrated Paper Solution to increase the efficiency and profitability of the pulp and paper production at the mill. The solution enables optimization of production processes, reducing number of manual operations as well as improvement of capacity planning, production and transportation planning.

TIPS is a comprehensive sales and production management solution for the pulp, paper, board and tissue industries. It provides real-time operations management by closely linking the planning, business operations, and production processes. Production data is captured on the mill floor in real-time, using a combination of automatic data acquisitions and terminal transactions. Real-time production data is immediately available to business operations, such as planning and sales. In turn, changes in business data are immediately accessible to production on the mill floor.

TIPS solution will allow Mondi Syktyvkar mill to improve the efficiency and profitability of its pulp and paper production with the help of modern information technology and the most advanced functions. TIPS applications include budgeting, order entry, production, process and quality management integrated into mill-level reporting.

"Now Mondi Syktyvkar users have on-line access to all business processes and mill departments, providing correct decisions more quickly than ever before. Business, production, process and quality information are integrated and configured to help developing optimal business processes that adapt to the mill's ever-changing work flow requirements," says Natalia Svetushkova, Country Manager, Tieto Russia.

The agreement also covers service center and technical support services including bilingual incident and problem management.

Tieto has signed a partnership agreement with FormPipe Software. The collaboration entails Tieto building on its Enterprise Content Management (ECM) focus by offering sales, administration and further development of FormPipe's product suite for document and case management, workflow and archiving.

FormPipe's products for document and case management, workflow and archiving have been devoted much attention in recent years and enjoyed a great deal of success in the market. For this reason, Tieto is now complementing and strengthening its product portfolio with FormPipe's products.

"The goal of the partnership is to be able to offer both the public and private sector an optimum product on the basis of each customer's needs and wishes," says Tony Forstén, ECM Manager at Tieto.

For FormPipe, the partnership means greater availability on the market, with a higher delivery capacity and level of competence.
"We see Tieto as a key strategic partner for continuing to grow in our main segments. Tieto has proved its worth as a very competent supplier of solutions for document and case management, workflow and archiving, which fortifies our position in our main markets," says Mauritz Wahlqvist, Partner & Sales Manager at FormPipe.

The partner agreement will run for two years and means that Tieto can secure its position as a leading supplier of solutions for document and case management.

Tieto releases version 6.3 of its manufacturing operations management solution Lean System. The new version provides increased support for international business and integrates mobility with the manufacturing operations management solution. The industrial manufacturing companies will have the unique opportunity to manage their global production network with one central solution over incorporated companies and regardless of the time zone or local currency of individual sites.

The transparency of the operations management system with common shared master data makes the system easy to handle both from the functional point of view and the technical side. Support for mobile field work is an integrated part of the solution, allowing the field engineers to accept assignments through the mobile phone.

To support the requirements of finding the exactly right documents in a quick and easy way, the new version of Lean System comes with improved document management interface to M-Files or other document management systems.

"We have put a lot of focus on workflow management. As an example, one customer has been able to reduce the time spent on product design with 25 %. With the improved support for several sites with one global system, the customers can expect even more efficiency and cost savings", says Risto Raunio, head of the Lean System business in Tieto.

Lean System is used by over 100 companies in networking-based industry, service business and project management all over the world, most of them in Finland. The solution is specifically built to support the production planning and other requirements of the manufacturing industry. Lean System has won independent customer satisfaction surveys in enterprise resource planning for several consecutive years.

Tieto will deliver a self-service solution that will automate the process of signing new electricity contracts at Turku Energia. The service enables consumers to independently sign new electricity contracts and renew existing contracts online. This way the service automates the contract process at Turku Energia. In addition, the service provides opportunities for Turku Energia to market electricity products and contracts on the Internet in an entirely new way.

The possibility to sign electricity contracts online is a key part of the online self-services offered by energy companies. Self-service tools enable customers to browse the products offered by the energy company regardless of the time or the place and select the most suitable option. In addition, contracts can be renewed, switched or changed, using the self-service tools. Self-service solutions increase the efficiency of customer service and provide real-time information for customers.

"When the customer and the customer's electricity delivery site is recognised at the ordering stage, the contract order can be processed into the system automatically, which means the manual work done by customer service agents is reduced significantly. We aim to develop our online services to be so user-oriented that our customers will want to contact us primarily through digital channels. This requires us and our service providers to have the ability to make our electronic services sufficiently distinct, useful and easy for customers to see as additional benefits received as part of their custom," Yrjö Kujala, Development Director at Turku Energia, says of the increased efficiency provided by the electronic process.

"The Electronic Electricity Contract service is a feature that is seamlessly integrated into operational processes and the operational system. Signing of an electricity contract is a simple and logical step-by-step process for the customer. Using bank authentication to identify the customer adds to the reliability and security of the solution. The service is based on a new and efficient technology platform that ensures the solution's longevity and future development," says Risto Poutiainen, Director of Energy & Utilities at Tieto.

Mondi partners with Tieto and Metso in largest single one time advance process control project in the pulp and paper industry.

Mondi has partnered with Tieto and Metso to to increase the efficiency and profitability of the pulp and paper production at Mondi’s Syktyvkar Mill in Russia. Tieto and Metso provide the mill advanced control and optimization systems for the fiber lines. By improving the overall operation of the fiber line Mondi will improve the yield, chemical consumption and production capacity of the three lines, leading to significant reduction in operating costs and improving productivity.

The advance control and optimization system for Syktyvkar includes the following process areas: three continuous digesters, three brownstock washing lines, two oxygen delignification lines, and two bleach plants. The Tieto part, Tieto Integrated Paper Solution TIPS, applications include budgeting, order entry, production, process and quality management integrated into mill-level reporting. 

The flexible optimization options from Metso for each application are Continuous digester, Washing optimizer, Oxygen delignification optimizer and Bleaching optimizer. Coordinating these various applications maximizes the overall benefit for Mondi for fiber line optimization. These applications join the almost four hundred Pulping and Recovery Advance Control Applications Metso has installed globally.

The Mondi Group is an integrated packaging and business paper manufacturer with production operations in 28 countries and around 23,400 employees. Tieto is the leading IT service company in Northern Europe providing IT and product engineering services with about 18,000 employees.