Trimble announced that it has released its Connected Forest™ Xchange (CFX) and Connected Forest Business (CFB) as core solutions to provide the global forestry industry with an end-to-end ecosystem for supply chain management, trading partner collaboration and financial settlement. CFX and CFB are integral to Trimble's Connected Forest initiative to provide solutions to manage the full raw materials lifecycle of planning, planting, growing, harvesting, transporting and processing. Trimble's CFX supports collaboration among wood supply stakeholders by providing a cloud-based clearinghouse for log load data transactions, including scale tickets, load information and transportation monitoring in real-time. All stakeholders are able to make more informed decisions, improve their fiber visibility and increase their productivity. Trimble's CFB is a contract and financial system to streamline harvesting and fiber-related transactions. Together, CFX and CFB offer forestry companies a cloud-based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform to simplify and automate the data collection of log load transportation and measurement for processing supply chain financial commitments. The new solutions enable forestry businesses to improve decision making at every step-from forest to mill and from land acquisition to product delivery-by combining industry-specialized software and hardware into solutions for land, forest and fiber management. Trimble's Connected Forest portfolio offers the most comprehensive supply chain solutions available to the forest industry.