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CORK, PAPER & FOREST PRODUCTS

Multi-site genealogy
with one template.

Natural raw materials, dozens of sites, and a tightening web of chain-of-custody rules. This is the sector where Kaizen Tech was forged — and where a single-instance, multi-site MOM template turned paper-driven plants into a governed corporate platform.

CORTICEIRA AMORIM
01 · THE CHALLENGE

Where forest-products groups get stuck.

Cork, paper and forest-products manufacturers run natural, variable raw materials through many plants and business units. The hard problem is rarely a single line — it is standardizing execution and traceability across geographies that each grew their own paper routines.

  • 01

    Paper-driven genealogy

    Lot control and traceability captured in physical documents — fragile, opaque, and re-keyed or lost before use.

  • 02

    No corporate standard

    Every site runs its own “MES” of spreadsheets and tribal knowledge, so cross-site comparison needs a translator.

  • 03

    Raw-material variability

    Natural inputs vary batch to batch, demanding tight, data-driven control that paper cannot sustain.

  • 04

    Chain-of-custody exposure

    Sustainability and deforestation rules now demand provenance evidence that legacy processes cannot produce.

02 · WHERE THE SECTOR IS MOVING

The trends reshaping the group.

DEFORESTATION RULES

Geolocation & due diligence

EUDR forces deforestation-free, geolocated supply chains — a step change in provenance data capture.

CHAIN OF CUSTODY

FSC / PEFC go digital

Certification audits increasingly expect digital, queryable chain-of-custody rather than binders.

CIRCULAR ECONOMY

Bio-based demand rising

Cork and wood-fibre materials gain ground as low-carbon, renewable alternatives — raising volume and scrutiny.

STANDARDIZATION

Corporate operating platforms

Groups consolidate fragmented site systems into single, governed multi-site templates.

AI OPERATIONS

The data backbone

Predictive quality and supply-chain optimization need a clean, contextualized multi-site data layer first.

DECARBONIZATION

Product carbon accounting

Per-product footprint reporting depends on operational data captured at the source.

03 · REGULATORY PRESSURE

Provenance you have to prove.

Forest-products groups face fast-rising provenance and sustainability obligations. Each resolves to operational data that must be captured at source and reported on demand.

EUDRReg. 2023/1115

Deforestation-free due diligence with geolocation and full traceability of forest-risk commodities.

Lot genealogy and provenance captured digitally and linked from raw input to finished product.

FSC / PEFCChain of custody

Certified material tracked and segregated through every processing step, audit-ready.

Digital chain-of-custody embedded in execution — certified lots tracked end to end.

ESPR / DPPDigital Product Passport

Product-level composition, recyclability and provenance data exposed via a digital passport.

As-built and genealogy records structured so passport data is a query, not a project.

PPWRPackaging & Packaging Waste

Recyclability, recycled content and waste reduction evidence for paper and packaging output.

Material and process data captured per lot to substantiate packaging claims.

04 · OUR APPROACH

One template. One instance. Wave rollout.

We don't propose N implementations — we propose one, and a discipline for replicating it. A single-instance, multi-site MOM template on TrakSYS, governed centrally, with explicit local-flex parameters at site and line level. Sites configure within the template; they cannot fork it.

The first site is chosen for representativeness, not ease. From that lighthouse, sites roll out in waves grouped by similarity, so the template's stress points surface predictably and rollout becomes a repeatable program rather than a series of projects.

Global governance with local flexibility inside a defined core — the operating model that scaled to 25+ sites.
05 · WHAT WE DELIVER

Outcomes, not modules.

  • Single-instance template25+ sites on one governed core build.
  • Lot genealogyForward and backward traceability in seconds, across the group.
  • Paperless executionOperator tablets at the line; quality and holds all digital.
  • Real-time visibilityOne view of performance across every plant and business unit.
  • Global governanceSteering committee, change control, site-readiness gates.
  • AI-ready backboneClean, contextualized data for the next decade of operations.

Standardize execution across every site.

A focused diagnostic maps your sites, genealogy needs and chain-of-custody obligations against the multi-site template that scaled to 25+ plants.