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 amount of berries as a superior grade that leads to overpayment of premium meant for class 3 berries. Our analysis shows a strong case for installing
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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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Sethe and her children. For 18 years‚ she lived with the guilt of killing Beloved and received the "haunt" of her daughter ’s disapproval. Sethe was married‚ before her escape‚ to a fellow slave named Halle. Unfortunately‚ she had not seen her husband since her escape‚ and assumed he was dead. Halle ’s best friend‚ Paul D‚ had also not been seen since the escape. Suddenly‚ after 18 years of absence‚ he appeared at Sethe ’s front door. Immediately they began to rekindle memories of life at Sweet Home
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African Americans: Historical Journey from 1865 to the Present HIS: 204: American History Since 1865 Professor Lisa Burgin July 14‚ 2014 Introduction The African American journey has been one of trials and tribulations which they suffered greatly to achieve freedom and success. The battle has led the citizens of this nation to have witnessed the first African American President of the United States. The journey that has brought African Americans to the present situation has
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processing step before bagging and shipping. Recently‚ RP1 is experiencing a higher percentage of wet berries as a result of its location and the industry trend of harvesting the cranberries wet. The second key issue at RP1 is the deficiency in quality assurance of cranberry grading. In 1970 alone NCC paid the premium on 450‚000 bbls of berries while half of them turned out to be less than grade 3 berries. The imprecision in grading cranberries resulted in a cost overrun of approximately $112‚500.
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outwardly very gentle‚ seemingly sweet and protective‚ much like Sethe’s version of love. But beneath that‚ Denver truly wants to keep Beloved at a distance from their mother. In reality‚ Denver truly believed that Beloved materialized to wait for Halle with her older sister. Denver seems to want to have her own family that excludes Sethe. And although Denver never truly experienced slavery‚ she has felt the impact of it through the loss of her family‚ which may be the reason why she feels compelled
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may assume that: On an average “busy” day 18‚000 bbl arrive over the 12-hr period (7 am to 7 pm). This is based on a typical busy day in September. The process is approximately a “continuous flow” type. Wet berries are 75% of all berries. Holding bins 17-24 are dedicated to wet berries. Capacity of the dumpers is 3‚000 bbl / hr (it takes on average 7.5 minutes to dump a truck‚ a truck holds on average 75 bbl so‚ from Little ’s Law‚ each dumper will take 600 bbl/hr). Drivers are paid $10/hr
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Monkeys is a story about a 14 year old boy named Jay Berry who discovers about 28 loose monkeys running around in the prairie. Later in the story Jay Berry finds out the monkeys came from a crashed circus train and the owners are giving a reward to whoever can safely return them. Jay Berry then decides to catch the monkeys but soon realizes how hard it is and that he may not get the pony and .22 caliber shotgun he’s been wanting. When Jay Berry finally catches the monkeys with the help of his grandpa
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dumping has to wait till the bins get empty. After Destoning and Dechaffing the drying activity and separators act as a bottleneck for the whole process. The holding bins are designed primarily to handle the dry berries in the existing infrastructure but recently the proportion of wet berries has increased and hence there is a shortage. In order to handle these problems the Vice President of operations at NCC calls a meeting with his assistant and Superintendent of plant. The
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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: Massachusetts‚ New Jersey‚ Wisconsin‚ Oregon‚ Washington‚ Columbia and Nova Scotia. The company is about to take on challenges to improve efficiency of receiving plant 1‚ and to reduce unnecessary factors such as overtime cost‚ prolonged waiting time of unloading berries‚ which increase rental truck cost to growers. Even though‚ the
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