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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 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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    Background National Cranberry Cooperative (NCC) had faced operational problems at Receiving Plant #1 (RP1) during the peak harvest season in the fall of 1995‚ which had resulted in unhappiness of the owners of the Co-operatives and high labour cost‚ despite the purchase of an additional dumper. To avoid the same problems in the coming peak season‚ it is important to analyse the plant operations based on predicted demands and make recommendations if new equipment should be purchased before the fall

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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

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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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    EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In the current scenario‚ the major bottlenecks in the system are the drying units for wet berries and the berry separation lines. While the drying units’ capacity can be increased by purchasing additional units‚ the throughput of the system will still be limited by the limitation of the separation lines. If the average rate of inflow of berries is 1500bbl/hr‚ then with the effective separation capacity of 1200bbl/hr‚ the plant will incur a backlog of 300bbl/hr. If the shift start

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    1. Problems facing receiving plant No. 1 (RP1) The problems that The National Cranberry Cooperative is facing with are described in the table below. Mostly they are related to the problem of capacity. Problem | Implications | Presence of bottlenecks in the stages of drying and separating of berries. | Excessive overtime costs. | | Overcapacities in other stages of processing of berries. | 2. Process Flow Diagram From 8-10 min to few hours 400*3= 1200 bbls/h 1500*3 = 4500 bbls/h

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    problem‚ gang… We now that the bottleneck in the process is the Drying unit. Using the diagram‚ we can assess: 1. TPT is 19‚000*.7 wet barrels/12 work hrs in work day = 1108 wet bbls per day 2. The dryer unit can process 600 bbls wet cranberries per day Looking at the process we know that there is a bottleneck at Drying unit: I. The capacity of the drying unit is 600 bbl /hr which is much lower than the required 1108 wet bbl/day we need. II. On an average day a total of 10‚000

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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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    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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