Management


These are COFINA’s management five milestones:

  1. Professional technical team in charge of management
  2. Development of investment, production and strategy plans in the long run
  3. ArcView and Microsoft Acces system exclusive for forest exploitations
  4. Permanent supervision of the premises
  5. Annual budgets elaboration and follow-up
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COFINA has combined its technical and economical analysis capacity of forest sector companies to provide managing services.

Investment

1 Management of investment funds
2 Evaluation of forest business
3 Lands systematization and planning
4 Analysis and execution of projects
5 Management of forest-industrial projects


Forest Operations

1 Planning and control of forestry activities in the short, mid and long run
2 Production planning and control
3 Administration of all the production activities of the company
4 Accountancy
5 Budget preparation and follow-up
6 Control of sub-contractors in all the activities
7 Development and maintenance of operation and accounting databases
8 Design, development and maintenance of Geographic Information System
9 Preparation of monthly reports
10 Work meetings among technicians of different areas
11 Control of company collection and payments
12 Sales management of forest products, which includes the detection and control of new clients, follow-up of the created clients’ portfolio, price negotiation and control of all the production line (elaboration, loading, weighing and freight) up to its delivery in the industrial plant.

COFINA is nowadays the only service company within the sector which covers all the managing areas within the forest activity.





Technical Consultancy

COFINA has focused its activity on the carrying out of studies and projects related to::

1. New industrial undertaking

Said studies are divided into::

1 Project analysis, which includes the study of the main variables of the same (Lay–Out, machinery, products to be elaborated, processes, installations, suppliers, market, etc.)
2 Project direction
3 Start-up

The works include the analysis corresponding to the technical-economical feasibility of future premises.

2. Revision of existing activities: A survey and testing of the studied undertaking is carried out to detect bottlenecks, propose modifications and introduce alternative technologies that allow an improvement in the process efficiency and quality. These studies include industrial and forest activities.

 

 

3. Forestry activities. Land studies related to forest aptitude as well as studies on forestation plans, native forest inventory, forest tree nursery design, nursery garden production, forestation and re-forestation works, dasometry, thinning and pruning design, regrowth handling and use of forest plantation promotion system are carried out

 

 

 

Economical Consultancy


Since COFINA ‘s analyses have the technical revision status of the company premises, the same works as an internal auditing of the main decision parameters.
The economic consultancy is closely related to the knowledge the company has on the forest-industrial sector, consequently developing in an interactive manner with the audited company staff. Our studies include:

1 Profitability analysis.
2 Cost studies along the productive chain.
3 Commercialization structure (distribution, new markets identification, diversification, integration, export potential).
4 Control systems.
5 Relation with suppliers.
6 Analysis of company’s strengths and weaknesses
7 Strategic planning

 

 

 

Administrative and Legal Consultancy

COFINA counts with professional staff trained to provide presentations and follow-ups so as to invoke the benefits of Law number 25.080.

Additionally, we carry out the implementation of standards and principles for the FSC certification.
Since the forest activity requires a great amount of labor, COFINA ‘s legal area has the knowledge and experience regarding consultancy in registry and management of contractors and depending personnel, based on valid labor laws.

 
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