1. Software Downloads

• National Cranberry Cooperative: Excel Workbook Instructions

2. Readings and Related Links

• Financial Flows:
  • The importance of flow times to working capital: Working Capital_WSJAug04
• Cycle Time Management:
• Examples of Gantt charts for a new product development project: example, detailed example.
• McDonald's focus flips back to fast (Chicago Tribune, 3/16/2003)
• Cutting cycle times through CAD/CAM (NY Times, 3/31/97). [this link may become unavailable over time.]
• Coffee on the Double: As It Adds to Menu, Starbucks Seeks to Speed Up Service (WSJ, 4/12/2005)
• National Cranberry & Capacity Management:
• NPR report on cranberry industry
• New white cranberries are more difficult to harvest (Washington Post, 11/3/03)
• Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc.
• The Ocean Spray Collection (contains current market information together with some art)