Assignment on Case on

“National Cranberry
Cooperative, 1996”
Study Group 2:
• Achin Chatterjee (2112039)
• Anshul Agarwal (2112007)
• Pinaki Priyadarshini (2112016)
• Rohit Giri (2112021)
• Sachin Shetty (2112023)
 High holding time of trucks before dumping.

Limited workers shift timings for collecting, sampling and

Problems dumping of berries – considering two shifts this year.
faced by Limited number of Wet berries bins - deciding whether to
Receiving convert dry bins to wet-dry bins.

Plant No. 1 Overtime Issues with the labours (permanent and

(RP1) seasonal) from union .

Only about 50% of berries were No. 3 - deciding whether

to put light meter system or not to improve the yield.
 Sources of Variability

Seasonal productions
Different Colour Variations in weight of
with production
grades of berries trucks arriving
variations

Variations in Supplies Variations in quality of

Variations in time of
of Wet and Dry types berries (1st, probable
arrival of Truck
of berries 2nd and rejected)
 PROCESS FLOW DIAGRAM WITH CAPACITIES AT EACH STAGE

TRUCK ARRIVAL DESTONING DECHAFFING

Each Truck carries average 75bbl Capacity of 3 destoning Capacity of 1 dechaffing
units: 1500*3 = 4500bbl/hr unit: 1500bbl/hr

SEPERATOR
WEIGHING, BIN 1-16
Original Capacity was
450bbl/hr
SAMPLING & Each Dry bin is 250bbl
COLOUR GRADING each Reduced Capacity:
Total Capacity: 400*3 = 1200bbl/hr
16*250 = 4000bbl/hr
DECHAFFING DRYING
Capacity of 2 dechaffing Capacity of 3 drying
DUMPING unit: 1500*2= 3000bbl/hr unit: 200*3= 600bbl/hr
7-8min per truck
Considering 7.5min per dumper BIN 17-24
on an average. Each (Dry + Wet) bin
is 250bbl each
Capacity per hour for 5 dumpers Total Capacity: 8*250
for holding 75bbls of each truck: = 2000bbl/hr SHIPPING WASTE
5*75*60/7.5 = 3000bbl/hr
AREA FLUMES

BIN 25-27
Each Wet bin is TO
400bbl each
Total Capacity: 3*400
BAILEY
= 1200bbl/hr MILLS
 Wet Dry
Capacity Capacity
Q3. Peak Harvest Season = 18,000.00 bbls
Remarks
18,000.00 bbls
Remarks

Wet Harvested = 12,600.00 bbls 70% 5400 bbls 30%

Truck Arrival Time Spread = 12.00 hrs 12.00 hrs
Demand of Receiving Unit = 1,050.00 bbls/hrs 450.00 bbls/hrs
(a) Would trucks have to
wait to unload? Destoning = -- 4500 bbls/hr
Dechaffing = 3,000.00 bbls/hrs 1500 bbls/hr
Ans. Yes Drying Capacity = 600.00 bbls/hrs Bottleneck, as lowest capacity -
Separator = 1,200.00 bbls/hr
(b) When during the day 25-27 & 17-24 (Considering all bins used for
Wet for demand)
would trucks be waiting? Bin Capacity
Time for 1st Truck to get bin
= 3,200.00 bbls/hrs 4000 bbls/hr Bin 1-16

Ans. After 10:03AM full = 3.05 hrs

Inventory Accumulating per
hour = 450.00 bbls/hrs
(c) How much truck Drying Starting from = 11.00 AM Assumption
waiting time would you Inventory accumulated before
Drying start = 4,200.00 bbls
expect? Inventory Accumulated after 10hrs considered , as 11 hr working hour
Ans. Last Truck will wait Drying start = 3,600.00 bbls considered
for 7.67 Hrs Total Inventory = 7,800.00 bbls
Inventory in Bin = 3,200.00
Inventory in Truck = 4,600.00

Truck Unloading Time = 7.67 hrs

2:40AM Next
Final Truck Unloading = 14.67 hrs FINAL TRUCK UNLOADS AT Day
 Wet Dry
Capacity Remarks Capacity Remarks

Q3. (d) How would the Peak Harvest Season

Wet Harvested
=
=
18,000.00
12,600.00
bbls
bbls 70%
18,000.00 bbls
5400bbls 30%
various actions Truck Arrival Time Spread = 12.00 hrs 12.00 hrs
contemplated by Demand of Receiving Unit = 1,050.00 bbls/hrs 450.00 bbls/hrs
Hugo Schaeffer affect
peak day Destoning
Dechaffing
=
= 3,000.00
- -
bbls/hrs
4500bbls/hr
1500bbls/hr

performance? Drying Capacity

Separator
=
=
600.00 bbls/hrs Bottleneck, as lowest capacity -
1,200.00 bbls/hr
25-27 & 17-24 (Considering all bins used for
Bin Capacity = 3,200.00 bbls/hrs Wet for demand) 4000bbls/hr Bin 1-16
Inventory Accumulating per
hour = 450.00 bbls/hrs
Inventory Accumulated after 10hrs considered , as 11 hr working hour
Drying start = 5,400.00 bbls considered

Total Inventory = 8,100.00 bbls

Inventory in Bin = 3,200.00
Inventory in Truck = 2,200.00

Truck Unloading Time = 3.67 hrs

Final Truck Unloading = 10.67 hrs FINAL TRUCK UNLOADS AT 10:40PM
 Truck Cost if
process starts at
11AM 7AM
Recommendations
if the cost of $76.67 $36.67
renting cranberry
trucks with drivers
were $10.00 per To save cost on trucks; operations should start at 7AM
hour. Also, to save overall cost on drivers and labours, a
dryer should be added since it is the bottleneck