II. Temporary Holding
After the process berries were weighted, sampled and finally color graded, they were finally moved to one of the five Kiwanee dumpers which had rapidly moving belt conveyors. The berries were taken to one of the 27 temporary holding bins (bins 1-24 held 250 bbls. and bins 25-27 held 400 bbls. each) which were controlled from a central control panel. Although it usually took
Water-harvested berries were held in bins 25-27, and bins 17-24 held either wet or dry berries. Since water harvested berries did not need destoning, they went straight towards one of the 3 dechaffing units (holding up to 1500 bbls. per hour each). Then, these wet berries were taken to the drying units at different rates for those expected to be loaded into bulk trucks (200 bbls. per hour per dry
1) INTRODUCTION
The National Cranberry Cooperative case present the production and operation problems faced by plant processing berries in the USA, in the seventies.
- PRESENTATION OF NCC & THE CRANBERRY INDUSTRY
As volume of the harvested berries increased, problems arose in the transformation of those berries into saleable products. This was the case in NCC’s receiving plant n°1 (RP1).
1) Introduction
Throughout National Cranberry Cooperative (NCC) case, we know that there are some problems in Receiving Plant No.1 (RP1). At the intro part of the NCC case, vice president of operation at the NCC, Hugo Schaeffer said “……our overtime costs were still out of control this fall, and the growers are still upset that their trucks and drivers had to spend so much time
과거의 경우에는 비교적 순수한 형태의 경쟁, 즉 같은 제품을 생산할 때는 순수한 경쟁적 관계(pure competition)가 되고, 부품공급자과 완제품생산자의 관계는 협력적 경쟁관계(cooperative competition)이었다. 그러나 정보기술발전은 이러한 형태의 경쟁(또는 협력)관계로 유지되는 것을 허락하지 않는다.