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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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    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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    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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    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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    National Cranberry Cooperative In early 1981‚ at the National Cranberry Cooperative’s receiving plant number 1 (RP1)‚ overtime costs are too high and delivery trucks and their drivers have to wait several hours to unload. The trucks have to wait because the plant’s holding bins fill up and there is not temporary storage. The holding bins fill up because within the cranberry operating system there is a bottleneck‚ a place in the production process where production slows down because of a slow or

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    Assignment – National Cranberry Cooperation | | | |National Cranberry Cooperative | |1/27/2013 | 1. Develop a process flow diagram for processing cranberries (both

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    Executive Summary Operations Management Introduction As a leader in the fruit industry‚ National Cranberry Cooperative (NCC) is ready to take on some changes in order to increase efficiency in its operation. The entire process flow by which cranberries enter‚ move‚ and exit Receiving Plant No. 1 (RP1) can be improved by tweaking certain stages of the overall operation. Such improvements will reduce the expensive overtime costs that have been incurred and reduce the waiting time for inbound delivery

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    National Cranberry Cooperative Summary When Hugo Schaeffer‚ vice president of operation at the National Cranberry Cooperative (NCC) went through last fall’s process fruit operation at receiving plant No. 1(RP1) with the superintendent Will Walliston‚ he found that overtime costs and the time waiting to unload were still two big problems. Walliston gave two options to avoid these problems next fall is to buy and install two new dryers‚ and to convert dry berry holding bins so that they can store

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    eliminate the backlog. The cost benefit of adding the additional drying unit and advancing the shift start time are higher than the cost benefit of other options considered. THE COMPANY The Receiving Plant I (RPI) of National Cranberry Cooperative (NCC) processes both wet and dry cranberries in a highly mechanized process involving 400 workers during peak season. The processed berries are sold in bulk and bags. PROBLEM STATEMENT NCC is currently wrestling with both

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    NATIONAL CRANBERRY COOPERATIVE National Cranberry Cooperative Question 1 The receiving plant No. 1 is facing 3 problems: 1) Too much waiting time for trucks before they can unload their berries; 2) The overtime costs are too high; 3) The grading process of the berries is inadequate. Question 2 Question 3 Process Flow Diagram for wet and dry cranberries Working Note: Arrival of berries- In the process fruit‚ first berries are arrived on receiving plant

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