Financial and Accounting (F & A) Systems
Team A
Business Systems – BSA/310
May 13, 2013

Current Challenges

Riordan Manufacturing is using different business systems throughout their branches. These different systems are causing difficulties, which produces errors in reporting and argument between these branches. San Jose has a license for a fully integrated Windows system without application source code. Michigan has a vendor software application that is no longer supported due to the vendor no longer being in business. To compound the issue, Georgia’s software is from a different vendor than Michigan’s vendor. A company that uses multiple systems will run into numerous difficulties, which can be prevented or resolved by planning and integration of a single business system that was designed and configured for all braches to access and use. Each of the department’s data are collected from different sources, some data is stored on hard copies that need to be reentered into the other system so that it is digitally available, which other branches are currently using. As a result of all the time it takes to transfer all existing data currently on hard copy, a lot of manpower hours are being wasted during this process. With the use of multiple codes on the many business systems that are currently in place, data needs to be converted to the proper code before each system can recognize the data. The above mentioned two issues, data that is hard copied and multiple code issues, is translated to losing a portion of the company’s profit margin because of the excess man-hours that are spent on the two issues. A good example of both issues that the income and balance sheets are labor intensive and will be completed 15-20 days after the month has ended. Since there is a lot of manpower required to complete the income and balance sheets, there