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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000 each) and convert dry berry holding bins so that they can be used to store either water harvested or dry berries ($5000 per bin) Equipment and installation lead times are in excess of 6 months Hugo Schaeffer - Vice President at NCC (National Cranberry Cooperative) Mel O’Biren - assistant Spent $75000 - 5th Kiwanee dumper Timeframe - Feb 14‚ 1971 Percentage of water harvested berries this year will increase to 70% of toal process fruit from last year’s 58% Overtime costs were still out of
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Spring 2015 Student name: Ha Thu Tran Class: Operation Management 63.671. Case Study: National Cranberry Cooperative Date: Feb 19 2015 I. Background /Summary National Cranberry case is an interesting operational case study. The organization of National Cranberry was established and owned by growers of cranberries to process and market their own berries. It is a large corporation‚ which has operation in all primary growing areas of North America: Massachusetts
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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 plant
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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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pdf form. The wet berry drying process had a utilization percentage of 250%‚ which exceeds 100%‚ making it the bottleneck in this scenario. Even though National Cranberry has three dryers to be used during the drying process‚ each only has a capacity of 200 bbl‚ which means the three dryers can only collectively dry 600bbl of cranberries in one hour. This leaves 525bbl of wet berries in inventory each hour. 2. Enter your answer and supporting arguments for question 2 here. [10 points] On a busy
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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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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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Boost juice is a widely known brand in the drink companies occupying Australia. It has made itself well known since its creation in 2000 by Janine Allis. There are five different ways a company can differentiate themselves from its competitors‚ they are product‚ services‚ channels‚ people and image. Brands will differentiate themselves with competitors through product differentiation by design or features of their product. With services differentiation it is how efficiently
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