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    National Cranberry Cooperations 1996

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    National Cranberry Cooperative receives cranberries from growers during peak season from September to December. They have identified several issues at their receiving plant including trucks waiting for long periods due to lack of temporary storage, increasing amounts of wet berries requiring processing, and inaccurate berry grading. Recommendations include adding dryers, converting bins to accommodate more wet berries, providing temporary truck storage, starting processing earlier, and improving grading accuracy to remove bottlenecks and reduce costs.

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    National Cranberry Cooperations 1996

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    National Cranberry Cooperative receives cranberries from growers during peak season from September to December. They have identified several issues at their receiving plant including trucks waiting for long periods due to lack of temporary storage, increasing amounts of wet berries requiring processing, and inaccurate berry grading. Recommendations include adding dryers, converting bins to accommodate more wet berries, providing temporary truck storage, starting processing earlier, and improving grading accuracy to remove bottlenecks and reduce costs.

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    All About National Cranberry Cooperations 1996-Its problem and recommendations.

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    National Cranberry Cooperative receives cranberries from growers during peak season from September to December. They have identified several issues at their receiving plant including trucks waiting for long periods due to lack of temporary storage, increasing amounts of wet berries requiring processing, and inaccurate berry grading. Recommendations include adding dryers, converting bins to accommodate more wet berries, providing temporary truck storage, starting processing earlier, and improving grading accuracy to remove bottlenecks and reduce costs.

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    National Cranberry Cooperations 1996

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    National Cranberry Cooperative receives cranberries from growers during peak season from September to December. They have identified several issues at their receiving plant including trucks waiting for long periods due to lack of temporary storage, increasing amounts of wet berries requiring processing, and inaccurate berry grading. Recommendations include adding dryers, converting bins to accommodate more wet berries, providing temporary truck storage, starting processing earlier, and improving grading accuracy to remove bottlenecks and reduce costs.

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    National Cranberry Cooperative, 1996 Case Study

    Presented ByMithilesh Singh RQ1201A04

    Introduction
    Hugo Schaffer(VP of operations at NCC) Mel OBrien(Assistant) Will Walliston(The superintendent) Growers

    Case Bakground
    NCC is a cooperative owned by Growers Peak season runs from 1st Sept, to 15th Dec Water Harvesting v/s Dry Harvesting Water Harvested berrries expected to grow from 58% to 70%

    Receiving Plant #1

    Receiving of berries Temporary Holding Quality Grading Bulking & Bagging

    Process Fruit Receiving


    Unloading and went through a small version of cleaning & drying Grading was done Recommendation by scaeffer: Installation of light meter system of color grading Requirement of full time skilled operator with a high pay

    Temporary Holding
    Trucks tilted the content on the five rapidly moving Conveyers Problem Identified: Trucks had to wait for hours since no place for receiving berries for further operations

    Destoning, Dechaffing & Drying


    1-16= Dry Berries 17-24= Both dry & Wet Berries 25-27= wet Berries Plant had 2 Dechaffing units dedicated to both wet & dry Berries Observation By Will Walliston: Inc. in wet berries coming to plant

    Contd
    Recommendations by Walliston to OBrien: Coveting 1-16 holding bins of dry berries to wet berries holding bins OR New dryers for the wet berries costing $60,000 each

    Quality Grading
    Jumbo separators First Quality Berries Potential Second quality Berries Unacceptable Berries Logic Behind: Good Cranberries will bonce higher than poor cranberries

    Scheduling The Workforce


    Requires 27 members workforce or 53 members depending upon the relative volume Change in shift timings i.e. From 7-3 & 3-11 Implication: Reduce in huge overtime expenditure Limit the extra capital they need to spend

    Contd
    27 Permanent with $13.00/hr Avg 15 Seasonal workers with $8.00/hr Crew of 8 members worked over night because wet fruit cannot sttay for longer time Plant worked for almost 22 haoue and rest time for maintaience and cleaning purpose

    Problems Identified
    % of wet berries will continue to rise Trucks are currently not given timetable Very specific data's were not available, averages were used Trucks waiting time Inaccurate Grading

    Recommendations
    Adding Dryers Bin Conversion Place in receiving plant for temporary storage of berries Start Dechaffing, Destoning, & Drying Earlier

    Conclusion
    Removing Production Bottlenecks Increase Processing Start Time Cost Reduction

    The End

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