Cranberry Solutions Essay

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Q1. What are the three main problems facing the Receiving plant 1? What are the three proposed solutions? A1: The three main problems facing the receiving plant1 are: a) Excess Queuing time: The trucks and the drivers have to wait in a queue to unload process fruit into the receiving plant. b) Work schedule mismanagement: Huge overtime costs and absenteeism. c) The berries graded as 3(top quality) were awarded a 50% premium per barrel but only half of them turned out to be of grade3. The solutions for the above mentioned problems are: 1. Forecasts of peak season delivery volumes need to be done so that no trucks are waiting to be unloaded. First we will determine how long it takes to finish processing all the berries that arrive on a day and estimate the resulting overtime and truck waiting costs. Breakup of the 20 day peak season (Exhibit 2): No of barrels | Days | <12000 | 1 | 12000-14000 | 4 | 14000-16000 | 6 | 16000-18000 | 9 | | | Total | 20 | | | We will assume that the same demand pattern will continue for 1971. From Table A: From 1967-1970 % increase in yield = [(95.1-66.2)/66.2]*100 = 44%. So CAGR = 13%. For 1971, yield = 95.1 * 1.13 = 107.463 barrels/acre. Time to service a truck = 5 - 10 min. So average time = 7.5 min. Average barrels/ truck = 75 barrels So capacity = (avg barrels/avg time) = 75/7.5 = 10bbl/min = 600 bbl/hr For 5 dumpers, capacity = 5*600 = 3000bbl/hr = input rate Arrival rate for wet berries = .7*3000 = 2100bbl/hr Considering 18000 bbl/day, wet berries = (.7*18000)/12 = 1050 bbl/hr dry berries = (.3*18000)/12 = 450 bbl/hr Our analysis from the flowchart shows that the bottleneck for process fruit at RP1 is drying process for wet berries at 600 bbl/hrs. Receiving/ testing : No capacity

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