Introduction Hugo Schaeffer‚ vice president of operations at receiving plant 1 (RP1)‚ runs a large cranberry processing plant. He is faced with many issues; the industry is changing dramatically and Hugo needs to make some key changes in his plant to keep up with new trends. In order to do this‚ Hugo has asked us to examine the cranberry processing method at RP1. The following are our findings and recommendations to Hugo. Hugo has informed us of the following problems and asked us to identify
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National Cranberry Cooperative September 22‚ 2011 National Cranberry Cooperative (NCC) is a major processor and distributor of cranberries. Through their full-scale processing operation at receiving plant‚ NCC is able to handle all aspects of production from the physical collection of cranberries from suppliers to the packaging of product for sale. Through detailed analysis‚ it has become apparent that significant issues exist within NCC’s operation. In particular‚ are the continuously growing
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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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Process Analysis - CBC Projection of the peak demand during the season Projection of demand for processing of cranberries can be taken as equal to the delivery load at the plant. The two major points that we considered while making the projections for the 1981 season were the fact that Mr. Schaffer had estimated the arrivals of wet berries to be 80% of the total quantity and the Cranberry Marketing Order of 1980. It is assumed that the peak load of 1981 will not exceed that of 1980 by more
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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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Task 1: Zombies Zombie is an anti-war song written by the Irish rock band The Cranberries‚ in 1994. The group’s vocalist‚ Dolores O’Riordan has claimed that Zombie speaks about “The Irish fight for independence that seemed to last forever.” When talking about the conflict in Ireland‚ it is important to bear in mind that it is not only political‚ but also religious. The suppression of Catholics in the country can be dated all the way back to the Reformation in 1517‚ and the struggle between the two
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National Cranberry Cooperative Case 20090562 Political Science Junki Hong To begin with‚ this assignment is done with Kim Seo Yeon (20100472‚ Sociology). National Cranberry Cooperative Case is the study done by the Harvard Business School about a process of warehousing from the delivery and arriving of cranberry to a manufacturing in the warehouse. National Cranberry Cooperative was an organization formed and owned by growers of cranberries to process and markets their berries. The handling
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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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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. Below‚ write your answers to Questions 1-4 (on Syllabus). 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 defend them‚ and then proceed to answer the question accordingly. The idea is
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