National Cranberry Case Report All Excellent Team Summer 2012 Memo By calculating implied utilization of every process‚ we found that the drying process for wet berries is a bottleneck ofRP1. Utilization of dryers is 180%!!! (comparing to 8~48% of other processes‚ it is so problematic). Because of this bottleneck‚ 480 bbls of wet cranberries are not processed per hour on an average “busy” day (17‚280 bbls arrive over the 12-hour period). As a result‚ our temporary holding bins are full
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Process Flow at National Cranberry Cooperative 4 4.) Installing a Light Grading System 5 5.) Decreasing the truck waiting time 6 6.) Bag pack or Bulk Pack 8 7.) Conclusions 9 1.) Introduction This case analysis looks at the two primary problems at the receiving plant no. 1 (RP 1) faced by National Cranberry Cooperative during the cranberry harvesting period‚ viz. 1) too much waiting period for trucks before they unload berries at the RP1 and 2) too much overtime costs. There is also
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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; however‚ if you hear something from some other group‚ please give a reference. Below‚ write your answers to Questions 1-4 (on BB/Cases). 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
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Team Case C. National Cranberry Cooperative Please read the course pack item “National Cranberry Cooperative”. The assignment is composed by two parts‚ which are due on different day. The following are the common assumptions for both Part I and Part II A. All the processes (including Destone‚ Dechaff‚ and Dry) start from 7am. B. On an average “busy” day‚ there are 18‚000 bbls delivered over 12-hour period (from 7am to 7pm). C. Wet berries are 70% of all berries. D. Holding bins 17-24 are
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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; however‚ if you hear something from some other group‚ please give a reference. Below‚ write your answers to Questions 1-4 (on BB/Cases). 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
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Report: National Cranberry Cooperative Fill in your name in the header. Please read the Course Syllabus for guidelines on collaboration in assignments: Below‚ write your answers to Guiding Questions 1-4. The case is due at the beginning of class on January 29 (Wednesday). Please submit only one document per group. We will discuss the answers in class. You may want to print out your answers and charts for your reference during the class discussion. Some additional information about National Cranberry
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National Cranberry Cooperative 1. The wait time for trucks to back onto a Kiwanne dumper and empty their contents was up to three hours. Even though $75‚000 was spent on a fifth Kiwanne dumper‚ this did not seem to help overtime costs. This assumes that it is the delay in trucks emptying their contents that caused the overtime to be required. A potential cause is the lack of dryers and the lack of berry appropriate holding bins‚ i.e. not enough wet or dry berry holding bins – these causes
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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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NATIONAL CRANBERRY CO-OPERATIVE CASE STUDY * Nishi Sharma In 1971‚ National Cranberry Cooperative faced recurring operational problems that affected the productivity and relationship of NCC to growers. This analysis will discuss how NCC can improve its operation before the peak-season comes in. The analysis was based from facts cited in the case‚ using tools such as but not limited to process flow diagram‚ cost‚ benefit and utilization analysis‚ and work-force scheduling. The author recommends
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a backlog of 300bbl/hr. If the shift start times stay as it is‚ and the processing divisions start four hours after the receiving division‚ the truckers toward the end of the day will have to wait‚ since the cumulative backlog caused by processing will exhaust the bin storage capacity. The wait times for the truckers can be reduced by converting some of the dry bins to wet bins. However‚ this measure will not completely eliminate the trucker wait times. The best solution is to acquire one additional
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