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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National Cranberry Cooperative Case 20090562 Political Science Junki Hong To begin with‚ this assignment is done with Kim Seo Yeon (20100472‚ Sociology). National Cranberry Cooperative Case is the study done by the Harvard Business School about a process of warehousing from the delivery and arriving of cranberry to a manufacturing in the warehouse. National Cranberry Cooperative was an organization formed and owned by growers of cranberries to process and markets their berries. The handling
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Spring 2015 Student name: Ha Thu Tran Class: Operation Management 63.671. Case Study: National Cranberry Cooperative Date: Feb 19 2015 I. Background /Summary National Cranberry case is an interesting operational case study. The organization of National Cranberry was established and owned by growers of cranberries to process and market their own berries. It is a large corporation‚ which has operation in all primary growing areas of North America:
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INSTRUCTOR: Professor Wang Xiayang HOMEWORK: Case Writing –National Cranberry Cooperative NAME: JESSIE ZHOU/KOBE LIU STUDENT ID NO.: 08210359/ CLASS: 09PA STUDENT DECLARATION I declare that this assignment is my own work‚ which all sources of reference are acknowledged in full and it has not been submitted for any other course. Signature: Date: 10/10/30 NATIONAL CRANBERRY COOPERATIVE Contents 1. What are the problems facing receiving
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realistically live up to. As times continue to change‚ pressures to do more plague the Canadian health care system in spite of slower rates of advancement and expansion in resources. Diminishing access to care‚ increased numbers of patients‚ and intolerable wait times are some examples of issues that have been of high concern to the government and general public. For years‚ tedious waiting times have become a deepening rift in Canada’s health care system. A waiting list commonly refers to a roster
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Waiting time There are some main problems that causes unnecessary waiting time. First of all the casting machine often breaks down and this kind of stop results in a lot of waiting time for the process and the workers. To repair a broken down machine takes at least 3 hours up to 12 hours. When the machine breaks down the production in the melting work centre is stopped which for example makes the level of inventory increase. Since the company only have one machine there are a lot of unnecessary
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1. Identify the bottleneck or bottlenecks in the process. To identify the bottleneck‚ we need to find out the process capacity and flow rate. Process Num of machine Capacity per machine (bbls/hr) Total capacity (bbls/hr) 1 Truck arrive 8 75bbls/truck 600 2 Dumping 5 600 3000 3 Dry berry holding 16 250 4000 4 Dry/wet berry holding 8 250 2000 5 Wet berry holding 3 400 1200 6 Destoning 3 1500 4500 7 Dechaffing 3 1500 4500 8 Drying 3 200 600
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Competitive Advantage Targeting Improvement: Operational Measures - Time T‚ Inventory I‚ Throughput rate R » Link through Little’s Law » Link to Financial Measures » Targeting improvement: CRU Computer Rentals Capacity and Flow Time Analysis » Pizza Pazza » Levers for Improvement Multi-product Capacity Management and Investment » Joint Marketing & Production Decisions » Optimal Capacity Investment » National Cranberry Cooperative S. Chopra/Operations/Process Analysis & Apps
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patient’s physician is unavailable at the time. Additionally‚ EDs are also key gateways in the admission to hospitals with 60 percent of admissions to hospitals taking place through EDs. Because of the integral role played by emergency departments in hospitals‚ challenges in the other departments may also significantly affect the operations of the EDs. Thus‚ due to the significant number of annual visits to the ED‚ challenges in the EDs such as such prolonged waiting time may tremendously influence the nature
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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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