National Cranberry Cooperative Essay

In Ron Rash’s “Blackberries in June,” it was easy to be immediately drawn into the story. People can relate to the life of Matt and Jamie. Their life of being married after high school and having a house of their own is a plan many people work to strive towards when in love after high school. Their life seems almost perfect or typical throughout the story. A wonderful and happy marriage with the wholesome relations with the other family members, and some tenseness between an in-law shows how Matt and Jamie’s lives are what seems to be, normal. When Charlton (Jamie’s brother) has an accident and loses his leg, Matt is determined to still follow their dreams and plans

* Wet berries have to also be dried. This adds an hour to the total processing time as it takes one hour to dry 200 bbls per dryer. However, since there are only 2 steps to each process (dry: dechaff, destine; wet: dechaff, dry) there really is no time added to the whole process

This paper will be focused specifically on the production of Driscoll’s red raspberries. I will be looking at their supplier Reiter Affiliated Companies, the labor conditions, wages, and difference between the conventional and organic raspberries. There has also been a movement to change the definition of organic and alternative foods so that it also includes the labor conditions. Therefore, there will be clearer difference between organic foods and nonorganic other than just environmental and sustainable differences between the two. The goal is to describe the production and process of distributing raspberries from the time they are planted until they are pick and then distributed in stores.

My second question asks if the truck will hold 51 refrigerators and 176 TV’s. Will the coordinates (51,176) fall into the shaded region of our graph? I will work this test point just as the last.

Addition of two new dryers implies the increased capacity for the drying station. They add an additional capacity of 2*200bbls wet berries per hour.

The acai berry is a unique fruit that mostly grows in the Amazon; this limited product is wanted

We had to work fast and gentle so as not to bruise the berries and get them to the broker as quick as we could after picking so that they could get to the consumer while they were still good."

Hardee Freight Transportation pickup and delivery (PUD) customers have implemented new hours for their drivers, limiting each driver to a 14 hour duty day. The biggest issue is that Hardee’s fright lanes has its hands full with requests from the largest customer, and customer pickup and delivery (PUD) operations are set to reflect the previews 10 hours of maximum drive time.

: Total capacity of 5 dumpers = 450 (barrel/hr) * 5 (dupms) = 2250 barrels/hr

We will keep our quantity levels at 400 to ensure that each time both trucks leave they are carrying at their max capacity. The trucks will operate at $15,000 dollars per trip even when it is not full. To ensure that we minimize our cost, and eventually reach our goal of maximizing our profits, we made sure that each time the truck leaves, it leave with a full load.

Approximately 25% of the shipments to the plant arrive in farmer-owned trucks. These shipments vary in size from 50 to 200 hogs. The farmer’s scheduled delivery affects the overall hogs supply, and the plant is heavily dependent on the farmers schedule accuracy.

According our estimation from day 640 to 730, we had the mean 14.098 drums. Hence, we set the capacity number to 15 and let the production non-stop by adjusting higher order number and 200 quantity per truck. Let’s summary our work as the following: Our process: figure out whether we should build factory and warehouse in specific region. estimate the demand of four region and Fargo region, change capacity, adjust order point, quantity, and priority order, check and adjust parameters from time to time

Each Truck takes 36 m3 / load with 128 m3 / hr to get 0.28 hr/load.

* Demand variability is not easily supported by employing Transit Point methodology. If there is an urgent demand for goods in excess of truckload capacity then it can lead to huge additional cost.

Information: 1. Amount of Tomato: 3,000,000 pounds to be delivered. Tomato quality: 20% (grade A) × 3,000,000 = 600,000 pounds 80% (grade B) × 3,000,000 = 2,400,000 pounds (provided by production manager)