National Cranberry Cooperative October 29th‚ 2014 OIE 500 – Analyzing And Designing Operation To Create Value; Walter T. Towner 2014 Problems with NCC • Overtime costs • Truck waiting • Wet harvesting becoming more common than dry harvesting • Even more overtime and truck waiting problems in the future OIE 500 – Analyzing And Designing Operation To Create Value; Walter T. Towner 2014 Process flow chart OIE 500 – Analyzing And Designing Operation To Create Value; Walter T
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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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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 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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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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“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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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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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 is a cooperative of berry growers around North America that share common production facilities and for the last several years have been experiencing capacity bottlenecks among other issues. After initial analysis‚ two main factors that contributed to a decrease in production were found. The first issue in the business is that the supply trucks and drivers delivering the harvest were not properly organized and there was not enough space and organization to allow for smooth offloading
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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 minutes
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