NATIONAL CRANBERRY COOPERATIVE National Cranberry Cooperative Question 1 The receiving plant No. 1 is facing 3 problems: 1) Too much waiting time for trucks before they can unload their berries; 2) The overtime costs are too high; 3) The grading process of the berries is inadequate. Question 2 Question 3 Process Flow Diagram for wet and dry cranberries Working Note: Arrival of berries- In the process fruit‚ first berries are arrived on receiving plant
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rock band‚ The Cranberries. The song itself was written by the lead singer‚ Dolores O’Riordan and became a worldwide success. Originally seen as a catchy and popular song‚ listeners came to realise the much darker meaning behind the song after the release of the controversial videoclip. Zombie was initially written in memory of two children killed as a result of a bombing conducted by the Irish Republican Army (IRA) in Cheshire. Through the use of repetition and metaphors‚ The Cranberries created a song
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The major trends of the cranberry industry and the problems facing RP#1 There are several major trends that we can observe in the cranberry industry for the period of 1945-1979 (See Table 1 in the Appendix). First‚ there is a steady production increase in each of the five-year periods: from 615‚000 barrels in 1945-1949 to 1‚546‚120 barrels 30 years later. The production growth was caused by the increasing mechanisation of cranberry industry. For example‚ water harvesting could result in a yield
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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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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 (NCC) Case Analysis NCC Issues at Receiving Plant No.1 (RP1): Hugo Schaeffer‚ vice president of operations at NCC has currently identified three problems at the core of RP1. These three problems are: - Idle time: under the current process trucks are spending too much time waiting to unload cranberries at RP1 - Resource Utilization: the current allocation of full time and part time workers has resulted in increased costs as a result of both over time and absenteeism
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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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Bottlenecks in a Process OPS/571 November 17‚ 2012 Professor Brooks Bottlenecks in a Process Week Three’s assignment reflects the data collected in week one on customer service. Several factors affecting the process design determined a defect in the system. In this week’s assignment a brief discussion on the process from week one along with a discussion of the “main bottleneck in process is the topic” (University of Phoenix‚ 2012‚ p. 4). “Goldratt’s theory of constraints will also
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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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NATIONAL CRANBERRY CO-OPERATIVE CASE STUDY * Nishi Sharma In 1971‚ National Cranberry Cooperative faced recurring operational problems that affected the productivity and relationship of NCC to growers. This analysis will discuss how NCC can improve its operation before the peak-season comes in. The analysis was based from facts cited in the case‚ using tools such as but not limited to process flow diagram‚ cost‚ benefit and utilization analysis‚ and work-force scheduling. The author recommends
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