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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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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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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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 9 Separating 3 400 1200 During peak period 9/20-10/9 Average daily deliveries = 16‚380 bbls/day Working hours = 12 hr/day Average hourly deliveries = 16‚380/12 = 1‚365 bbls/hr From the above table‚ Average hourly deliveries (1‚365) is larger than Drying capacity (600)
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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 Investment » National Cranberry Cooperative S. Chopra/Operations/Process Analysis & Apps 1 How can operations help a company compete? The changing sources of competitive advantage Low Cost & Scale Economies (< 1960s) – You can have any color you want as long as
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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 than 0
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Systems and Knowledge Management From his office window overlooking the main floor of the Harvard Cooperative Society‚ CEO Jerry Murphy can glance down and see custom- ers shopping. 19 They make their way through the narrow aisles of the crowded department store‚ picking up a sweatshirt here‚ trying on a baseball cap there‚ checking out the endless array of merchandise that bears the Harvard University insignia. Watching Murphy‚ you can well imagine the Co-op’s found- ers‚ who started
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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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