OM Group 5, National Cranberry Cooperative

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National Cranberry Cooperative

-Yogikumar
-Sujitkumar
-Shubham
-Shamin
-Ajay Bairva
-Ajay ola
-Shashank
-R.R.Ranjan 1
National Cranberry Cooperative
 99% of sales of cranberries were made by the
various cooperatives that are active in the cranberry
industry
 NCC has operations in all of North America
 Surplus of Cranberries leads to Act of 1937 – Cap
on Crop production
 Increasing mechanization in harvesting
 Water harvesting was not the preferred method for
fruits which are to be sold fresh
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Receiving plant number 1
 Peak season – October
 Fresh fruit operation – 400 workers during peak
 Packaged fruits directly shipped to market.
 Process fruit operation – Highly mechanized.
 Bulk trucks with fruits – 20 to 400 bbls
 Average – 75bbls
 Truck’s % net weight of clean, dry berries estimated
 Berries graded according to color
 Color grading often went wrong, and a light meter system
costing 10,000$ was to be installed.
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Temporary holding
 After the previous process, the truck takes the
berries to dumpers
 27 holding bins
 5 to 10 mins to back a truck onto the dumper
and finish the dumping process
 At times it takes up to 3 hrs
 Due to holding bins becoming full

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Destoning, Dechaffing and Drying
 HB 25-27 – wet berries , HB 17-24 used for both
 Dechaffing – 1500 bbls per hour each.
 After this, wet berries taken to three dryers –
200bbls per hour per dryer
 HB 1-16 for dry berries only
 Berries from these units routed to three destoning
units – 1500 bbls per hour
 Wet berries and Dry berries processed through
different machines (latter did not include the drier)

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Milling – Quality Grading
 Then taken to third level of Separator building, using feed
conveyors
 9 jumbo separators for each of the three feed conveyors
 The separator identified the berries – First quality, Second
Quality and unacceptable
 First quality went directly to one of three take away
conveyors
 Second quality -> bailey mills -> further separation into
second quality and unacceptable
 Second quality – 12%
 Average processing capacity slightly less than 400 bbls per
hour 6
Bulking and Bagging
 Six conveyors to shipping – 3 from jumbo,3 from bailey
 Each conveyor-> any of three flexible conveyor in shipping
area ->any of four bagging stations, 4 bulk bin stations or 2
bulk truck stations
 Finally stored in freezers and used for an year in NCC
processing plants
 Max 8000 bbls bagged in 12 hour period
 Three 5 member teams run 3 bagging machines and 4th one
kept as a spare in case of break down
 Local processing plant utilized an average of 700 bbls daily
from bulk bins that could be filled at the rate of about 200
bbls per hour at each of the four bin stations 7
Scheduling the work force
 During harvest, process fruit side operated 7 days a week with
either a 27 member force or 53 member force depending on
volume
 27 employees employed throughout the year
 15 seasonal workers
 $2.25 per hour for seasonal workers
 Overtime rate -1.5 times the straight time rate>40 hrs a week

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 Full year employees straight time rate - $3.75 per hour
 Amount of overtime depends on how effectively workers
could be scheduled
 Problems with absenteeism
 Resulted in overtime of those who were present
 At least 2 hours of cleaning and maintenance work was
required

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THANK YOU

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