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Let Caribou Software Give You the Edge

Knowing the financial performance  of your business is simply non-negotiable in today's marketplace.  Caribou's log management software – The Cutting Edge - is a Windows based application designed to help you run your sawmill operation more profitably by giving you better business information, while reducing the time spent on maintaining accounting spreadsheets.

The Cutting Edge Key Benefits

Imagine how much more effectively you could run your business if you could: 

• Manage all your logging and trucking contractor payments, your stumpage accruals and payment adjustments in a single integrated database.

• Generate reports such as Volumes Produced by Logger, and Block-by-Block Production by Species and Product at the click of a button instead of spending countless hours compiling the information.

• Have access to near real-time access to load data as trucks cross your weigh scale.

• Have an automated system for computing conversions from your log scale data for use in contractor payment and/or volume reporting.

• Readily compare the cruise volume for a block with actual production.

• Easily track overloads and block cycle times of your trucking contractors

• Store all load data and contract data in one single database rather than countless spreadsheets.
• Receive your weigh scale loads directly into your payment system without re-keying any data.
• Import your scaled log data and automatically match it up with your weigh-scale load tickets.
• Automate the creation of contractor settlements and other types of delivery and costing reports.
• Automate your conversion calculations so that contractors or owners could be paid based on M3, cords, tonnes, or whatever other measure you require based on fixed or variable factors.
• Provide you with load counts and volumes for any block/job at the click of a mouse.

The Cutting Edge Core Features

General

• Setup wizards for ease of creating new blocks and new contracts.
• Track production against cruise data broken down by species, sort, stratum or grade.
• Extensive copy capabilities throughout the system.
  
• Configurable labels and screens allow tailoring to suit regional or customer-specific terminology.
• Active flags on all setup data tables allow you to hide old information from day-to-day view, while still preserving the information for historic reporting.
• Track costs associated with contractors involved in the harvesting and log hauling operations.
• Track miscellaneous expenditures, and associate them with specific blocks.
• Excel-compatible data entry grids and reports.
 

Load Slips

• Quick-and-easy search interface to look up load slip information by date, by block, or by truck. 
  
• Flexible data structure allows you to track whatever load attributes (like species, grade, stratum, sort, logging system) that your business requires.
  
• Ability to track volumes on a variety of methods including by the tonne and M3.
• Handles log deductions for defects.
  
• Configurable log scale import to track sample load scaled data.  
 

Load Slip Pay

• Ability to pay on weight or volume basis - Tonnes, M3, Cords, etc.
• Pay based on load count.
• Can pay unlimited number of phases (logging, loading, processing, skidding, trucking, fuel adjustments, benefits, etc.)
• Pay individual operators -- includes ability to split payments for the same phase.
• Pay based on distance.
• Pay minimum amounts for loads.
• Pay based on Log Scale - Volume by species, stratum, sort, or grade.

Trucking

• Ability to pay based on load count, weight, route, distance.
• Tracks round trip cycle times.
• Ability to pay minimum for short loads.
• Ability to deduct pay for overloads.
• Ability to pay driver and/or truck owner separately.
• Tracks deliveries and payments.

Integrated Weigh Scale

• Ability to connect directly to weigh scale and get gross/tare weight readings.
• Loads written directly into payment database - real time load/volume tracking
• Auto validation of all data entry - No chance for typos!
• Configurable printed scale ticket.

Reporting

• Extensive set of standard reports for tracking information such as deliveries by block, species/sort/stratum/grade distributions, truck cycle times, and log cost by block or species/sort/stratum/grade. 
• Analysis reports that provide details on settlements, harvesting costs, stumpage, and trucking costs.
• Ticket tracking reports that detail settlement amounts and payments on a load-by-load basis.
• Reports in worksheet format that can be easily transported into MS Excel for additional analysis or charting.
• Value-added custom report-building services to provide you with information specific to your business practices.
• User-defined reporting tools for users wanting to build their own reports.

Why Choose Caribou Software?

• Our product is developed and supported by people who know the forest industry.
• We cater to small sawmills searching for user-friendly and budget-friendly solutions.
• Our goal is to make every customer a reference site, so you can be assured that we'll do our best to provide you with the best product and service in the industry, bar none!

Superior Software.

Superior Service.

Superior Solution.