to a case study cited by Staudt and Stranz (2009)‚ Ocean Spray Cranberries‚ Inc is an agricultural cooperative owned by more than 750 cranberry growers in the United States and Canada. The company produces canned and bottled juice‚ juice drinks and food products at distribution centers in Bordentown‚ New Jersey; Kenosha‚ Wisconsin; Sulphur Springs‚ Texas; and Henderson‚ Nevada. August is usually a challenging month for Ocean Spray Cranberries‚ Inc.‚ when the Lakeville‚ Massachusetts-based firm has
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Spray Cranberries‚ Inc is an agricultural co-op owned by over 750 growers in the US and Canada. They produce everything from bottled juice to food products and have 4 distribution centers in the United States. During their upcoming holiday season‚ Ocean Spray Cranberries has a particular challenging time pumping up the volume to meet the surge. Ocean Spray realized that in order to maintain their leadership they needed to focus on its core competency and look for outside sources to help them reduce
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Case study 4-2 1)What rationale is offered by Ocean Spray in support of the idea of using a 3PL? Do you agree with the reasons cited for the interest in 3PL? Ocean Spray Cranberries‚ Inc. offered several reasons for using a 3PL for their transportation and logistics area. They looked at the transportation within the logistics chain and realized there was a lot of variability in this area. The company decided that it wants to centralize and bring all of it’s transportation logistics into uniformity
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BUSINESS OceanSpray Cranberries Inc is the world’s leading grower owned corporative that harvests and exports of cranberry and grape fruit along with its bye-products in the form of juice‚ sauce‚ etc throughout the globe. Founded in 1912‚ at South Hanson‚ Ocean Spray Cranberries has managed to keep its brand name as the world leader in food products till date. It is only because of the various strategies it has adopted at different periods when encountered with a difficulty. In Cranberry Industry as described
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com/article/10879716/food-on-the-move http://www.chrobinson.com/en/us/About-Us/Newsroom/Press-Releases/2008/Ocean-Spray-Awards-CHRW-Supplier-of-Year/ http://www.oceanspray.com/PDF/Ocean-Spray-Environmental-Stewardship-2012-DIGITAL.aspx#page=10 Case study 4-2 1) What rationale is offered by Ocean Spray in support of the idea of using a 3PL? Do you agree with the reasons cited for the interest in 3PL? Ans: Yes‚ I agree with this decision if Ocean Spray able to maintain their focus on their core competency while allowing a 3PL
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Ocean Spray had facilities near Middleboro‚ Massachusetts where the processing of cranberries took place and they knowingly used the towns waste treatment facility for their waste water. This was not a problem until new water standards came about and the problems associated with Oceans Sprays activities came into light. Sludge started to grow in the waste treatment facility so the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Quality and Engineering became involved. The cause of the sludge was because
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Ocean Manufacturing‚ Inc. c as e 1.1 The new client acceptance decision Mark S. Beasley · Frank A. Buckless · Steven M. Glover · Douglas F. Prawitt l ea r n ing o bje C t ive s After completing and discussing this case you should be able to [1] Understand the types of information relevant to evaluating a prospective audit client [2] List some of the steps an auditor should take in deciding whether to accept a prospective client Identify and evaluate factors important to
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Introduction Ocean Carriers Inc. is a shipping company specializing in the operation of capsizes bulk dry carriers. In January 2001‚ the vice president of finance for Ocean Carriers was evaluating a contract proposal. In the proposed contract‚ Ocean Carriers would lease one ship to a client for a three year time frame. The customer would begin utilizing the ship in 2003. In 2001‚ Ocean Carriers did not have a ship that would meet the needs of this customer‚ and thus was considering purchasing a
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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 significantly. The NCC’s receiving plant started to see the
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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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