The case is due 5 pm on September 27 (Tuesday). Please submit only one document per group. Please E-MAIL your report to ismail.civelek@wku.edu. 1. Mark the capacity and utilization of each resource in the process flow diagram at the end of this document. Briefly describe how you calculate the capacity and utilization here. [20 points] The capacity for each process was listed in the case study document‚ and we found utilization by dividing the demand by the capacity. The respective capacity and
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Case: National Cranberry Coop Questions 1. What are the most critical problems facing National Cranberry that Mr. Schaeffer must address? What are some potential causes of these problems? What potential solutions do you suggest? Problems and potential causes: 1. Overtime costs: the root cause of this issue depends on how effectively workers could be scheduled. Workers in this industry tend to have problems with absenteeism. A higher than expected absenteeism would translate to overtime pay
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of the case and key problems (10 points) The case is about the process fruit operations of a receiving plant 1(RP1) at National Cranberry Cooperative (NCC). The NCC was an organization formed and owned by growers of cranberries to sell and market their products. The farmers bring their cranberries to the cooperative directly from their farms in leased trucks and get returns for their product from the cooperative. Over the years a trend was witnessed‚ the share of water harvested cranberries increased
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INSTRUCTOR: Professor Wang Xiayang HOMEWORK: Case Writing –National Cranberry Cooperative NAME: JESSIE ZHOU/KOBE LIU STUDENT ID NO.: 08210359/ CLASS: 09PA STUDENT DECLARATION I declare that this assignment is my own work‚ which all sources of reference are acknowledged in full and it has not been submitted for any other course. Signature: Date: 10/10/30 NATIONAL CRANBERRY COOPERATIVE Contents 1. What are the problems facing receiving
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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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1. Identify the bottleneck or bottlenecks in the process. To identify the bottleneck‚ we need to find out the process capacity and flow rate. Process Num of machine Capacity per machine (bbls/hr) Total capacity (bbls/hr) 1 Truck arrive 8 75bbls/truck 600 2 Dumping 5 600 3000 3 Dry berry holding 16 250 4000 4 Dry/wet berry holding 8 250 2000 5 Wet berry holding 3 400 1200 6 Destoning 3 1500 4500 7 Dechaffing 3 1500 4500 8 Drying 3 200 600
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Operations Management: Process Analysis and Applications Module Changing Sources of Competitive Advantage Targeting Improvement: Operational Measures - Time T‚ Inventory I‚ Throughput rate R » Link through Little’s Law » Link to Financial Measures » Targeting improvement: CRU Computer Rentals Capacity and Flow Time Analysis » Pizza Pazza » Levers for Improvement Multi-product Capacity Management and Investment » Joint Marketing & Production Decisions » Optimal Capacity
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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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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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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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