National Cranberry Cooperative

9. Analyze RP1 on an average day when 10,000 barrels of cranberries arrive. (Assume that 70 percent of the berries are wet, and there is no plant idle time or that trucks arrive as fast as the plant can process berries.) Should more dryers be added? If so how many? a. If one dryer is added, what is the return on investment? (Assume that 20 seasonal employees work overtime if overtime is necessary. Also assume that the input rate of berries exceed 10,000 barrels on 45 days per year. See Exhibit 2.) b. If two dryers are added, what is the process bottleneck? If a second dryer is added, what is the return on investment? (Same assumptions as part (a))

10. How many dryers would have to be added, and how many dry-berry holding bins would have to be converted (so that they could be used to store either water-harvested or dry berries) in order to eliminate truck queuing on a peak day when 18,000 barrels of cranberries arrive uniformly over an eleven-hour period from 7:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.? (Assume that 70 percent of the berries are wet, processing starts at 7:00 a.m., and the average truck holds 75 barrels.) What is the least-cost solution to eliminate truck queuing?

11. What should Hugo Schaeffer do at RP1?