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 busy day‚ the maximum throughput rate for RP1 is 975 bbl/hr (375 of these are dry berries‚ and
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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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($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 - Feb 14‚ 1971 Percentage of water harvested berries this year will increase to 70% of toal process fruit from last year’s 58% Overtime costs were still out
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National Cranberry Cooperative In early 1981‚ at the National Cranberry Cooperative’s receiving plant number 1 (RP1)‚ overtime costs are too high and delivery trucks and their drivers have to wait several hours to unload. The trucks have to wait because the plant’s holding bins fill up and there is not temporary storage. The holding bins fill up because within the cranberry operating system there is a bottleneck‚ a place in the production process where production slows down because of a slow or
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Case Report: National Cranberry Cooperative 1. Analyze the current process. Using the process flow map and the current process at Receiving Plant Number 1‚ mark the capacity and utilization of each of the resources. Show the flows of wet and dry berries separately. The capacity and the utilization of each process in the flow map is calculated and shown below. Utilization is solved by dividing the flow (of either the wet or the dry) and dividing it by the capacity for that particular process. Each
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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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Assignment – National Cranberry Cooperation | | | |National Cranberry Cooperative | |1/27/2013 | 1. Develop a process flow diagram for processing cranberries (both
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Team Case C. National Cranberry Cooperative Please read the course pack item “National Cranberry Cooperative”. The assignment is composed by two parts‚ which are due on different day. The following are the common assumptions for both Part I and Part II A. All the processes (including Destone‚ Dechaff‚ and Dry) start from 7am. B. On an average “busy” day‚ there are 18‚000 bbls delivered over 12-hour period (from 7am to 7pm). C. Wet berries are 70% of all berries. D. Holding bins 17-24 are
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Report: National Cranberry Cooperative Fill in your name in the header. Please read the Course Syllabus for guidelines on collaboration in assignments: Below‚ write your answers to Guiding Questions 1-4. The case is due at the beginning of class on January 29 (Wednesday). Please submit only one document per group. We will discuss the answers in class. You may want to print out your answers and charts for your reference during the class discussion. Some additional information about National Cranberry
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National Cranberry Cooperative 1. The wait time for trucks to back onto a Kiwanne dumper and empty their contents was up to three hours. Even though $75‚000 was spent on a fifth Kiwanne dumper‚ this did not seem to help overtime costs. This assumes that it is the delay in trucks emptying their contents that caused the overtime to be required. A potential cause is the lack of dryers and the lack of berry appropriate holding bins‚ i.e. not enough wet or dry berry holding bins – these causes
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