national cranberry cooperations 1996

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National Cranberry Cooperative,

1996

Case Study

Presented By-

Mithilesh Singh

RQ1201A04


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Introduction

Hugo Schaffer(VP of operations at NCC)

Mel OBrien(Assistant)

Will Walliston(The superintendent)

Growers


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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%


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Receiving Plant #1

Receiving of berries

Temporary Holding

Quality Grading

Bulking & Bagging


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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


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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


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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


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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


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Quality Grading

Jumbo separators-

First Quality Berries

Potential Second quality Berries

Unacceptable Berries

Logic Behind: Good Cranberries will bonce

higher than poor cranberries


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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


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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


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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


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Recommendations

Adding

Dryers

Bin Conversion

Place in receiving plant

for temporary storage

of berries

Start Dechaffing,

Destoning, & Drying

Earlier


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Conclusion

Removing Production

Bottlenecks

Increase Processing StartTime

Cost Reduction


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The End

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