What MS/OR Groups Do: Management Science Pays Off at International Paper Company

Patrick G. Falk
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Patrick G. Falk: InfoTech, 24 Grey Hollow Road, Norwalk, Connecticut 06850

Interfaces, 1988, vol. 18, issue 2, 38-44

Abstract: International Paper Company (IPCo.) is one of the largest industrial enterprises in North America, with sales of about $5 billion. The company is the world's largest manufacturer of pulp, paper, and paper products and a major producer of lumber and plywood.The nation's largest industrial owner of timberland, IPCo. owns over 8.4 million acres of timberland and has rights over another 11.6 million acres. To generate higher future returns from these renewable assets, the company is consolidating its land base through sales, acquisitions, swaps, and donations and growing genetically superior trees, which produce more wood fiber per acre more quickly. The company relies heavily on the quantitative techniques of management science and biometrics to evaluate timberland sites and to plan and budget forest prescriptions to be used in planting, managing, harvesting, and regenerating the timberlands.

Keywords: professional:; MS/OR; implementation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1988
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