“…As for digital payments, Appelhanz et al (2016) observed that electronic traceability of transactions enables automatic data import, simple data accumulation, and information provision to internal and external data processing. About digital forest innovation platforms (as called by Pynnönen et al, 2021), they provide operational tools for forest data sharing, decision-support, egovernment operations, and connecting forest owners and service providers. Ebinger and Omondi (2020, p.8) recognised that 'the commonality among emerging digital approaches in supply chains management is a trend towards 'datafication' that is increasingly leading to the translation of the physical world into data, which could then be used to support decision-making in a dynamic, problemoriented, and tailor-made way by combining data from various supply chain actors'.…”