of a urinary tract infection (UTI). Sometimes you’re told to drink cranberry juice to help prevent or treat a UTI. Just what is so special about drinking that juice? Is the juice made from magic berries? There are only three fruits that are native to North America: American cranberry (Vaccinium macrocarpon)‚ blueberry (Vaccinium angustifolia) and bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus). It was first thought that by drinking cranberry juice your urine became more acidic‚ which would kind of have an “antibacterial
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“For decades‚ cranberry juice has been recommended by healthcare practitioners to prevent Urinary Tract Infection (UTI).” (Howell‚ 2013). Most commonly UTIs are found in women‚ statistics state that nearly 1 in 3 women will have a UTI that will require treatment before the age of 24 (Kidney Health Australia‚ 2015). The question to ask is does cranberry juice evidently prevents UTIs. This essay will identify the process required to develop a PICO question; this framework will establish a clinical
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case National Cranberry Cooperative MGT 413 Case Write Up #1 Group 6 Problems facing RP1 The National Cranberry Cooperative faces several challenges with its operations at receiving plant 1 (RP1) in 1970. The primary challenges that RP1 is facing transmits to capacity and efficiency of their cranberry processing. For example‚ often there are trucks waiting to unload their cranberries because of existing bottlenecks in the processing system. This
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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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Case Report: National Cranberry Cooperative Fill in your name in the header. Please read the Assignment Collaboration Guidelines in Course Syllabus: Collaboration between groups is not allowed; however‚ if you hear something from some other group‚ please give a reference. Below‚ write your answers to Questions 1-4 (on BB/Cases). Your analysis should be based on the assumptions listed in the Syllabus. If you need to make additional assumptions to answer a question‚ clearly state them‚ logically
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National Cranberry Cooperative Summary When Hugo Schaeffer‚ vice president of operation at the National Cranberry Cooperative (NCC) went through last fall’s process fruit operation at receiving plant No. 1(RP1) with the superintendent Will Walliston‚ he found that overtime costs and the time waiting to unload were still two big problems. Walliston gave two options to avoid these problems next fall is to buy and install two new dryers‚ and to convert dry berry holding bins so that they can store
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Executive Summary Operations Management Introduction As a leader in the fruit industry‚ National Cranberry Cooperative (NCC) is ready to take on some changes in order to increase efficiency in its operation. The entire process flow by which cranberries enter‚ move‚ and exit Receiving Plant No. 1 (RP1) can be improved by tweaking certain stages of the overall operation. Such improvements will reduce the expensive overtime costs that have been incurred and reduce the waiting time for inbound delivery
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Case Report: National Cranberry Cooperative Fill in your name in the header. Please read the Assignment Collaboration Guidelines in Course Syllabus: Collaboration between groups is not allowed; however‚ if you hear something from some other group‚ please give a reference. Below‚ write your answers to Questions 1-4 (on BB/Cases). Your analysis should be based on the assumptions listed in the Syllabus. If you need to make additional assumptions to answer a question‚ clearly state them‚ logically
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National Cranberry Case Report All Excellent Team Summer 2012 Memo By calculating implied utilization of every process‚ we found that the drying process for wet berries is a bottleneck ofRP1. Utilization of dryers is 180%!!! (comparing to 8~48% of other processes‚ it is so problematic). Because of this bottleneck‚ 480 bbls of wet cranberries are not processed per hour on an average “busy” day (17‚280 bbls arrive over the 12-hour period). As a result‚ our temporary holding bins are full
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Table of Contents 1.) Introduction 2 2.) Process Analysis 2 3.) Process Flow at National Cranberry Cooperative 4 4.) Installing a Light Grading System 5 5.) Decreasing the truck waiting time 6 6.) Bag pack or Bulk Pack 8 7.) Conclusions 9 1.) Introduction This case analysis looks at the two primary problems at the receiving plant no. 1 (RP 1) faced by National Cranberry Cooperative during the cranberry harvesting period‚ viz. 1) too much waiting period for trucks before they unload
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