...Riordan Business Systems Verne Weikle BSA/310 August 12, 2012 Michele Petrone Executive Summary Riordan Manufacturing’s (Riordan) Chief Executive Officer has requested a review of all Riordan’s business systems issued on Service Request SR-rm-012 (University of Phoenix, 2013). The comprehensive review will provide management the information needed to determine any improvements to Riordan’s business systems. First, the review will assess Riordan’s existing business systems by department while noting any interrelationships between departments. The review will also provide any business system suggestions that will increase productivity in each department. The Accounting & Finance and Operation department’s two primary alternatives are consolidating the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) at San Jose and the Enterprise Application Integration (EAI). Other improvements are implementing Vendor Management Inventory (VMI), adding access control to the intranet, implementing both Customer Relationship and Management systems, and workstation upgrade at the Pontiac plant. Departments reviewed are Accounting & Finance, Human Resources, Legal, Sales & Marketing, and Operations. Accounting & Finance The accounting systems at Riordan’s 3 plants and headquarters operate completely independent of each other. Monthly accounting records from the 3 plants are all consolidated to the headquarters’ accounting system at San Jose by uploading files and manual entry...
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...Riordan Security Plan CMGT/441 October 14, 2013 University of Phoenix Executive Summary: Riordan Manufacturing is a global corporation and has been performing both research and development activities and manufacturing plastics products for a number of uses since 1992. Riordan’s R&D efforts supply the company with new products to break into new markets, most recently the health care market. Riordan has grown and now has three United States locations and one location in China. Each location has a recently upgraded its information technology infrastructure including their network hardware and software. Riordan has also kept up with quality standards for its management and manufacturing operations, including following Six Sigma and ISO 9000 quality standards. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 requires Riordan to implement some changes to their security processes to ensure compliance with the new law. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act is focused on to the regulation of corporate governance and financial practice, maintaining the security of all financial data and ensuring the systems that access or store financial data and information must be secure to maintain compliance and pass an audit. Team B responded to the service request SR-rm-013 by performing an analysis of Riordan’s current network, data, and web security issues. Team B’s analysis focused on the security of information to ensure Riordan will be able to pass a security audit as a result of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act....
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...De Saint-Simon, and Emile Durkheim are only the names of a few classical social theorists who set out to explore the role of an individual within society. These men believed that Reason, along with the application of a scientific approach, would be able to positively change the world and break through to a new form of power and authority. Although the ideas and theories of these men give rise to far greater advancement in sociological theory, there is a failure in intuition, and thus, a failure of the classical sociological element. The first section of this paper includes an explanation of classical sociology along with an overview of the theories associated with some of the greatest sociologists of this time. The next section of this paper explores reasons and explanations for the failure of classical social theory and interpretations to why before-mentioned theories were compromised. The final section of this paper summarizes some of the conclusions drawn about the failure of this particular ideology. I. Classical Sociology/Theories Explained Classical sociology includes the idea that people can change the course of history through developmental progress. The object of study was society itself. The development of modern, industrial, and capitalist societies was believed to have separated people from the traditional way of living. The...
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...| How Old is Old Enough? | Drinking Age | | | 11/11/2011 | How old is old enough to have an alcoholic beverage? | How Old is Old Enough? The legal drinking age is a topic that has come up for, and will continue to come up for, many years. The main question that needs to be answered is what is it that determines when a person is able to drink. Should we continue to base the drinking level on age or should we look at other characteristics. Those enrolled in the military have special benefits when it comes to drinking. In the year of 2011, the legal drinking age in the United States for all non-military people is 21 years of age. There is research for both sides of the spectrum. Some believe that the age should be lowered from 21, while others believe 21 is the perfect age. Then there are the people who say that the drinking age should be taken even higher than 21. Some want the drinking age to be as high as 25. Will lowering the drinking age stop teens from binge drinking? If we take the drinking age higher, will it simply cause rebellion in the teen world? Many feel as though the law of 21 before drinking saves 1,000 deaths per year. The numbers of teens killed in alcohol related accidents have dropped somewhere from 11-16 percent since the 21 law have been implemented. Taking on higher drinking ages allows for a low intoxication level. For instance, in Georgia, where 21 is the legal drinking age, the blood alcohol level to be considered intoxicated is...
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...Research Article Analysis CJA/334 05/02/2016 Introduction There are many research studies that are done covering a variety of issues across the country, knowing how to dissect a research article is a great way to learn new information while honing your own research skills. In this paper, we're going to look a research study from a professional journal that has been peer-reviewed, along with answering various questions about the data collected, results of the study and design of the study. The study we're using is: Exploratory Study of the Relationship between Poverty and Crimes in Albany/Dougherty, Georgia by Nwaokoro, Amaechi N., Marshall, Clifford, Mittal, Shiwam, Journal of Business & Economics Research, 2013. Purpose of the Study For many communities it's easy to say the worse parts of town breed crime. Poor people are the ones who break the laws, they're the ones that need to be kept away from the higher class citizens. Is this really true? In some communities, it just may be. The purpose of this study was to determine if in fact poverty causes crime. Does a person's financial state and area of housing cause push that person into a life of crime? Another purpose of the study is to show if the area in question, Albany/Dougherty Georgia, had over time seen their crime rates rise as the population rose. Design of the study The design of the study is the Case Study Design, where a number of different factors are studied in the process of...
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...Mark A. Johnson | Spring 2012 | | Appendix Resolute Group Work: Page: Conceptualization/Introduction 2 Vision/Mission 2 Principles 2 Services Offered 3-4 General Environment 4-5 Assessment of Environment 5-6 Opportunities/ Threats 7 Revenue 7-8 SWOT 9 Tactic and Strategy 9 Balanced Scorecard 10 Explanation of Financials 11-12 Financial Sheet 13 A. Conceptualizing Paper Our business, Resolute Group, will be a small to medium size consulting firm that utilizes our team member strengths in consulting and evaluating current and new businesses. Each team member will have hired a team that specializes in the respective field. Our customers are business leaders, managers, and even current potential business owners, looking to establish a position in the market of Albany, GA and surrounding counties. We will consult these customers on the multiple marketing avenues, the business strategy sector, as well as public relation avenues these businesses could take. Other consulting advice could also include, but not limited to, whom to speak with on establishing certain businesses, review of current and former financial statements, basic public speaking seminars, and internal organizational review. Mission Statement Initiating Dreams into Realities’ Vision Resolute Group looks to make more companies capable...
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...Ethics and Compliance Chris Ruoss FIN 370 July 15, 2013 Professor Ryder Ethics and Compliance Wal-mart started their business years ago with the same strategic initiative that will address within this paper: providing goods at a lower cost than their competitors. This strategic initiative worked when they began this organization and continues to be successful today. So successful those competitors find it difficult to compete (Wal-mart, 2011). Wal-mart analyzes the market to decide what the company can do to continue to be the low price leader. Beating competitors with aggressive price point is how Wal-mart makes this happen. Wal-mart is relentless in bringing the lowest cost to their customer. No other competitor can provide the cost leadership that Wal-mart has achieved. With this cost leadership, Wal-mart believes that they are making lives better everywhere in the world. By saving their customers money and still showing an amazing profit: Wal-mart is successful in facet of their organization. Wal-mart believes that they are the best positioned retailer to know and provide all their customer’s needs globally. This strategic initiative points to the opportunity Wal-mart Corporation have with the Next Generation Wal-mart and the mission of saving people money so they can live better (Wal-mart, 2010). Wal-mart realizes in the world’s present economic state, offering their customers a way to save money is their best opportunity to remain successful. Affect that providing...
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...Why are small streams so valuable to an ecosystem and to people? I chose this research question in order to explain the importance of the data from my project. To do this, I interviewed Chad Schwinnen and Ali Laughbaum. Both are environmental science teachers at New Albany High School. Schwinnen has his bachelors of science in biology from Ohio State University and his masters of science in biology from Wright State. He has been teaching for nine years and he has taught classes like biology, senior environmental research course, and environmental science. Laughbaum has a combined degree of a biology and geology from Ohio State University. She has been teaching for fourteen years and for nine of those years she has taught environmental science....
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...| BSA 310 | | | Service Request SR – rm - 012 | TIFANY READ , RICHARD GIOIA, TIMOTHY BERGERON | 6/23/14 | BSA 310 | | Running Head: Riordan Manufacturing Learning Team C: Richard Gioia, Tifany Read, Timothy Bergeron BSA/310 6/22/2014 Riordan Manufacturing Incorporated owned and operated by Riordan Industries, which is a Fortune 1000 enterprise with current revenues in excess of $1 billion US dollars. Riordan Manufacturing currently employs 550 people and has projected annual earnings of $46 million US dollars. Riordan Manufacturing is broken up into multiple plants. Plastic beverage containers are currently in production in Albany, Georgia, custom plastic parts production is in Pontiac, Michigan, and plastic fan parts production is in Hangzhou, China. The research and development facility currently resides at the corporate headquarters in San Jose, California. The majority of their customers are automotive parts manufacturers, aircraft manufactures, the Department of Defense, beverage makers and bottlers, and appliance manufactures. The mission of Riordan Manufacturing focuses in achieving and maintaining reasonable profitability to assure that the financial and human capital is available for sustained growth. Using Six Sigma, leading edge R&D and exceeding ISO 9000 standards, are the attitudes and abilities by which Riordan Manufacturing are defined. Riordan Manufacturing will continue to lead the industry in using polymer...
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...the field of plastic injection molding and was founded in 1991 by Dr. Riordan. The company has facilities in San Jose, California, Albany, Georgia, Pontiac, Michigan and Hangzhou, China with its research and development stationed at the corporate headquarters in San Jose, California. The company provides parts and services to the Department of Defense, aircraft manufacturers, appliance manufacturers, beverage makers, and automotive parts manufacturers. A new system is necessary to modernize its current Human Resources Information System which was developed in 1992. Currently, there is no single data repository in place. Whenever there is a need to change an employee’s information, the manager has to submit a request in writing and the payroll clerk will have to enter it manually into the system. Every manager keeps employees’ files individually, and a third-party company keeps the worker’s compensation records. Another manager keeps the information of job analysis results, salary surveys, and individual compensation assessments. A new system wide web based application that allows the managers to seamlessly merge and access all employees’ data, and allows employees and managers to access Human Resources data and interface data from every site plant is necessary. Information Gathering Techniques First, we need to identify the current location of paper and electronic data storage location. Then, a team of database analysts will need to sort the data and delete all duplicate entries...
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...Riordan Manufacturing - Service Request RM002 Rough Draft Riordan Manufacturing, Inc. is a global leader in the field of plastic injection molding with state-of-the art design capabilities that has earned them international acclaim. Unfortunately, their dynamic research and development has failed to carry over to their IT infrastructure causing a great need for a complete redesign. With facilities in San Jose, California, Albany, Georgia, Pontiac, Michigan, and Hang Zhou, China, the changes to their IT infrastructure will need to stretch worldwide. To their advantage, with a budget of $150,000, and complete backing from Riordan Industries, their main company and a Fortune 1000 enterprise, accomplishing a successful redesign is well within reach. Business Objectives - LAN To begin, let us address the business objectives of Riordan Manufacturing. Riordan Manufacturing wishes to change their current plant independent' inventory management system to a central inventory management system. In the current configuration, the inventory management system is different for each plant, and is largely based upon paper transactions; numerous hand-offs between departments, and causing a great opportunity for error. By tying the receiving, manufacturing, and shipping departments together, work force can be used more efficiently, inventory management can be improved, and a lean manufacturing environment can be obtained. For feasibility, the likelihood of finding an obtainable resolution...
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...Riordan Manufacturing is a plastics manufacturer with four locations, worldwide. Their corporate headquarters is in San Jose, California. They have three manufacturing plants in Pontiac, Michigan, Albany, Georgia and Hangzhou, China. They are a vibrant company with a long history of problem solving. One of their corporate challenges is training expenses, either for new employees or for new systems and new products. Riordan Manufacturing is looking to upgrade their IT infrastructure and implement a distance learning solution that will cut down or eliminate the need for trainers to travel around the United States and to China. Riordan Manufacturing needs to upgrade their computer systems because the competitive nature of business has created demands for continuous advances in computer technology and system design. The declining prices of computer systems and their increasing power and utility have led more enterprises to invest in computer systems to widen their range of business functions. The most common business uses of a computer system are for database management, financial management and accounting. Databases may be to help make strategic decisions through the use of software based on artificial intelligence. The database will include records and statistics of products, services and clients. By Riordan upgrading their computer system with a windows server they could save money and heighten productivity by enabling the remote desktop protocol to provide a great...
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...Introduction The paper provides an overview of the Riordan Manufacturing Company and explains the purpose of the Corporate Compliance Plan. Next, the paper emphasizes four main issues which are Enterprise and Product Liability, Real and Intellectual Property, Governance and International Law related to Riordan's situation. The paper concludes with the Riordan's future legal responsibilities that can affect workforce productivity, customer relationships and customer relationships. 1. Organization Overview Owned by Riordan Industries, Riordan Manufacturing is an international plastic manufacturing company specializes in manufacturing plastic parts for the beverage manufacturing industry, automotive industry, and fan manufacturers with its headquarters lodged in California. After its foundation by Dr. Riordan in 1991, Riordan Company has tried to expand its capability in terms of production of plastics and beverages containers. The company has increased its level of productivity and opened a number of new manufacturing branches in Albany, Michigan, Pontiac, and China, Hangzhou. Riordan's product line includes plastic beverage containers produced at the plant in Albany, Georgia, custom plastic parts are produced at the plant in Pontiac, Michigan, and plastic fan parts produced at the newest facilities in Hang Zhou, China. Riordan's major clients are automotive parts and aircraft manufacturers, the Department of Defense, beverage makers and bottlers and appliance manufacturers...
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...for the practicing teacher, and while there has been an immense effort to provide these teachers with professional development to meet this challenge, many issues still exists. It became evident that preparing teachers for this change was of extreme importance. In turn, the awareness to prepare pre-service teachers for multicultural education has become a main focal point of this reform. Works Cited Ameny-Dixon, Gloria. "WHY MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION IS MORE IMPORTANT IN HIGHER EDUCATION NOW THAN EVER: A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE." National Forum. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 July 2010. . Ball, Arnetha F.. Multicultural Strategies for Education And Social Change: Carriers of the Torch in the United States And South Africa (Multicultural Education (Paper)). New York: Teachers College Press, 2006....
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...Information Systems; Riordan Manufacturing Looking at the company’s information page, you can observe almost anything that goes on within the company. With the shire size of a global company such as this one, you know that they have to use a lot of different systems just to remain profitable. Their web site states that “Riordan Manufacturing is a global plastics manufacturer employing 550 people with projected annual earnings of $46 million. The company is wholly owned by Riordan Industries, a Fortune 1000 enterprise with revenues in excess of $1 billion. Its products include plastic beverage containers produced at its plant in Albany, Georgia, custom plastic parts produced at its plant in Pontiac, Michigan, and plastic fan parts produced at its facilities in Hangzhou, China”. From that information you can see that there are locations in San Jose, California, Albany, Georgia, Pontiac, Michigan, and Hangzhou, China. That many different locations require the company to use a comprehensive system just so they can communicate with each other, this is needed mostly to make sure each location is doing what it needs to, but also to keep productivity companywide at its peak. Looking at it that way there’s a need to upgrade the systems as business evolves, but the decision needs to be made at the appropriate time. The first system they have in place is called HRIS, the company profile describes the system as keeping track all employees information, such as personal history to their hire date...
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