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    Case Study: “National Cranberry Cooperative” Question 1: “Draw a Process Flow Diagram of Receiving Plant 1”. For each step in the process indicate the resource pool‚ number of resources in the pool‚ total capacity of the pool. There are actually 27 holding bins‚ some of which can hold either dry or wet cranberries. Total Destoning machine capacity is 4500 bbl/hr Total Dechaffing machine capacity is 1500 bbl/hr dry and 3000 bbl/hr wet cranberries Total Dryer capacity is 600 bbl/hr of wet

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    National Cranberry Cooperative September 22‚ 2011 National Cranberry Cooperative (NCC) is a major processor and distributor of cranberries. Through their full-scale processing operation at receiving plant‚ NCC is able to handle all aspects of production from the physical collection of cranberries from suppliers to the packaging of product for sale. Through detailed analysis‚ it has become apparent that significant issues exist within NCC’s operation. In particular‚ are the continuously growing

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    Background National Cranberry Cooperative (NCC) had faced operational problems at Receiving Plant #1 (RP1) during the peak harvest season in the fall of 1995‚ which had resulted in unhappiness of the owners of the Co-operatives and high labour cost‚ despite the purchase of an additional dumper. To avoid the same problems in the coming peak season‚ it is important to analyse the plant operations based on predicted demands and make recommendations if new equipment should be purchased before the fall

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    OPERATIONS TO MEET DEMAND NATIONAL CRANBERRY COOPERATIVE CASE ANALYSIS 25th May 2010 Submission by: Group-B Dhananjay Kumar Kshitij Kulkarni Pankaj Shrivastava Rajesh Premchandran Salil Choudhary Siddharth Sinha Tanushree Datta 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY * Hugo Schaeffer‚ VP‚ Operations faces 3 problems during the harvest season at the National Cranberry Cooperative (NCC). a. Drivers and trucks spend up to 3 hours unloading cranberries when it takes around 5-10

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    Written Assignment: National Cranberry Cooperative. This is a challenging case‚ please allocate sufficient amount of time. In doing the analysis‚ you may make the following assumptions: a) An average busy day has a continuous arrival rate of berries of 1‚500bbs/hr. b) There are 20 busy days in the average growing season. c) Assume there is sufficient capacity in Bagging and Bulking. d) The case description of how many workers are needed when the plant runs over time is vague. Assume that there

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    National Cranberry Cooperative‚ 1996 Case Study Analysis IIMA PGPX 20.04.2013 Executive Summary National Cranberry Cooperative‚ a processing and marketing firm of berries‚ is facing challenges related to operational efficiency‚ high overtime cost and lengthy queues of delivery truck. Analyses of the case lead us to the following propositions to alleviate these problems: • Channel restructuring: Current practice of manual grading misclassifies significant

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    income or the cooperative’s? What is the impact of installing one new dryer? Two new dryers? Walliston - superintendent at RP1 install 2 new dryers ($25‚000 each) and convert dry berry holding bins so that they can be used to store either water harvested or dry berries ($5000 per bin) Equipment and installation lead times are in excess of 6 months Hugo Schaeffer - Vice President at NCC (National Cranberry Cooperative) Mel O’Biren - assistant Spent $75000 - 5th Kiwanee dumper Timeframe -

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    Introduction Hugo Schaeffer‚ vice president of operations at receiving plant 1 (RP1)‚ runs a large cranberry processing plant. He is faced with many issues; the industry is changing dramatically and Hugo needs to make some key changes in his plant to keep up with new trends. In order to do this‚ Hugo has asked us to examine the cranberry processing method at RP1. The following are our findings and recommendations to Hugo. Hugo has informed us of the following problems and asked us to identify

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    in .pdf form. The wet berry drying process had a utilization percentage of 250%‚ which exceeds 100%‚ making it the bottleneck in this scenario. Even though National Cranberry has three dryers to be used during the drying process‚ each only has a capacity of 200 bbl‚ which means the three dryers can only collectively dry 600bbl of cranberries in one hour. This leaves 525bbl of wet berries in inventory each hour. 2. Enter your answer and supporting arguments for question 2 here. [10 points] On a

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    Case: National Cranberry Coop Questions 1. What are the most critical problems facing National Cranberry that Mr. Schaeffer must address? What are some potential causes of these problems? What potential solutions do you suggest? Problems and potential causes: 1. Overtime costs: the root cause of this issue depends on how effectively workers could be scheduled. Workers in this industry tend to have problems with absenteeism. A higher than expected absenteeism would translate to overtime pay

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