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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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 bbl is received out of which 7‚000 bbl is wet. At an average processing rate of 600 bbl /hr it will take 11.67 hours to process. Assuming normal working day of 8 hours
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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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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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Written Assignment: National Cranberry Cooperative. This is a challenging case‚ please allocate sufficient amount of time. In doing the analysis‚ you may make the following assumptions: a) An average busy day has a continuous arrival rate of berries of 1‚500bbs/hr. b) There are 20 busy days in the average growing season. c) Assume there is sufficient capacity in Bagging and Bulking. d) The case description of how many workers are needed when the plant runs over time is vague. Assume that there
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Case Study: “National Cranberry Cooperative” Question 1: “Draw a Process Flow Diagram of Receiving Plant 1”. For each step in the process indicate the resource pool‚ number of resources in the pool‚ total capacity of the pool. There are actually 27 holding bins‚ some of which can hold either dry or wet cranberries. Total Destoning machine capacity is 4500 bbl/hr Total Dechaffing machine capacity is 1500 bbl/hr dry and 3000 bbl/hr wet cranberries Total Dryer capacity is 600 bbl/hr of wet
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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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