...Title: Riordan Manufacturing HR System Final Presentation Author: Neal Armstrong Course: BSA 375 Date: October 6th 2014 Instructor: William Glassen Introduction: Riordan Manufacturing’s current Information Technology Human Resource (HR) system is considered legacy and in need of replacement. The expected results are to define the business requirements for the development of an HR system to support the objective of a more sophisticated, state of the art, information systems technology. In this document, I will outline my plan for the new Information Technology system following in detail the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) for the project. Information Gathering: Information gathering occurs during the analysis phase of the SDLC and is the foundation of this project. In the analysis phase, the information gathered are used to create report definitions and layouts, screen definitions and layouts, data element definitions, and workflow diagrams. In order for it to be successful, it starts with a high-level meeting with the COO Hugh McCauley. In this meeting, I will ask Mr. McCauley to assign stakeholders and dedicate them to this information gathering process. The Ideal stakeholder would be a manager or supervisor from each area of the department who has everyday working knowledge of the current HR IT system and the IT technical staff whose job it is to ensure the new system will work under the current IT infrastructure. At the end of this meeting, I would...
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...Service Request Riordan Manufacturing Student BSA 375 May 26, 2013 Instructor Service Request Riordan Manufacturing Riordan Manufacturing is a global manufacturer of plastics founded in 1991 by Dr. Riordan. Dr. Riordan started Riordan Plastics to satisfy commercial applications for his medical patients using the processed polymers developed under his several patents. Now a global plastics manufacturer, Riordan Manufacturing employs 550 people and the annual earnings are projected around $46 million. The company’s global operations include the corporate headquarters in San Jose California, the Plastic Bottles Facility in Albany Georgia, the Custom Plastics location in Pontiac, Michigan, and the Electric Fan Facility located in Hangzhou, China. The COO of Riordan Manufacturing, Hugh McCauley has initiated a service request. This request is labeled SR-rm-022. The purpose of this request is to integrate a variety of the human resource tools into a single application. This document is to addresses the planning and analysis phase of a service request. The request is to encompass all plant locations. Design methods will be established to meet this request, requirements will be collected, the project scope and feasibility will be recognized, the stakeholders will be identified, and key factors to guarantee success in gathering information will be clarified. Project Scope The project scope is for a new system for the human resource department. The new human resource systems...
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...Impact of Complexity and Uncertainty on Project Planning Process Project across most industries face huge uncertainty as regard to complex, ambiguous and dynamic environment (external environment) which can have impact on the project planning process. Similarly, projects are becoming larger and more ambiguous which make the execution and realisation of project complexity to be on the increase therefore increase our internal complexity. (Azim, 2010) established that project are increasingly being characterized as complex across most industries and sectors. (Vidal et al. 2011, p. 719) define project complexity as the property of a project which make it difficult to understand, foresee and keep under control, even when given reasonably complete information about the project system. Besner and Hobbs project (2012) established that size, complexity and together with risk (known unknown) and uncertainty (unknown unknown) are path of project characteristics to be considered in selection of project management toolsets to be adopted in their management approach. Each of the project classification approaches attempt to address interaction between complexity and uncertainty and the impact this interaction has on project planning process. The key principles for addressing complexity in the planning process. The complexity of project has always been there which make the need to execute and bring realisation of project complexity on the increase. Therefor the key principles of...
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...Service Request SR-kf-013 Paper (Preparation) Learning Team B BSA/375 Service Request SR-kf-013 Paper (Preparation) Kudler Fine Foods has submitted a service request to implement a tracking system for a new frequent shopper program. This project will “track purchases of individual customer's. The customer purchases will be tracked and accumulated as loyalty points for redemption by the customer for gift items, specialty foods and other products or services as made available through partnerships with other external companies” (Kudler, 2014). (Project Scope) “Project scope is a part of project planning that involves determining and documenting a list of specific project goals, deliverables, tasks and deadlines” (Rouse, 2014). Project scope is broken into several sub-categories: project objectives, goals, phases, tasks, resources, budget, and proposed schedule. Project Objectives – To track purchases of individual customers. The customer purchases will be tracked and accumulated as loyalty points for redemption by the customer for gift items, specialty foods and other products or services as made available through partnerships with other external companies. Project Goals and Phases – The project goal is to create a business/systems requirements document for the development of the Frequent Shopper Program system to meet the objective of this request. There are 4 phases of this project, and they are: * Phase 1: Define the scope and stakeholders associated with the...
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...BSA/375 Week 2/3 IA DD7 Instructor DIDIER OPOTOWSKY March 3, 2012 Riordan Manufacturing is a company that specializes in plastic injections for making products. Recently the COO, Hugh McCauley requested a project plan to discuss the steps and roles involved in creating an updated HR website. This document will cover the steps involved in Analyzing the current system as well as what techniques where used to gather the information and the design. We will address the scope of the project and how feasible the implementation of the proposed changes would be to the organization. Riordan Manufacturing is a worldwide company that has its headquarters located in San Jose, California. Riordan has a site located in Hangzhou, China that is responsible for making Plastic Fans. The other two locations are in Pontiac, MI, and Albany, GA. Michigan’s plant handles Custom Plastic Parts, and Georgia’s plant makes plastic beverages. This project will entail upgrading the current system for HR to a more state of the art system but without losing current abilities from the current site. The current HR site is broken down into categories. The existing categories are spread out as far as topics. There are multiple links for employee information, which should reside in a central location. The project timeline is 6 months from start to finish. Obtaining all information on current system standings and processes will be paramount to the success...
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...Riordan Manufacturing Service Request SR-rm-022 (Section 1) Seth Stafford BSA/375 May 11, 2015 Todd Feuerherm Riordan Manufacturing Service Request SR-rm-022 Riordan Manufacturing was established in 1991 by Dr. Riordan. He started this company in San Jose, CA where currently the corporate office is and where the Research and Development Department is located. Riordan is a global plastics manufacturing company that is now employing 550 people. The annual revenues are 46 million and they have plants in Albany, GA, Pontiac, MI, and Hangzhou, China. The plant in Albany produces plastic beverage containers. The one in Pontiac products custom plastic parts and the one in China produces plastic fan parts. Riordan Manufacturing is a subsidiary of Riordan Industries, Inc a global plastics manufacturing company that is a Fortune 1000 enterprise with revenues that will exceed 1 billion (Apollo Group, 2011, 2013). The C.O.O. of Riordan Manufacturing Hugh McCauley has submitted a service request SR-RM-022 the goal to improve the human resources information system. This request will affect all plant locations throughout the company. Riordan wants the system to be state of the art and will take advantage of the newest technology out there. The expected results will define the business requirements needed to me this proposed enhancement. The overall objective is to create a detailed system and an aggressive project implementation plan that Riordan Manufacturing can plan to utilize...
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...Service Request SR-rm-002 ROSA CHANDIK BSA/375 April 18, 2013 Robert Dashiell Hugh McCauley, Chief Operating Officer for Riordan Manufacturing has sparked and interest in a more sophisticated, state of the art, information system for the Human Resources department for all locations of the company. This paper will discuss all the business requirements needed to develop the new system. Expected completion of the project is six months. This will allow the new system to be utilized in the second quarter of next year. In order to determine all the business requirements necessary to complete this project, it is important to include key stakeholder in Riordan Manufacturing. The decision process should include the following key people. CEO – Dr. Michael Riordan is one of the most important factors in this process. He has the final say in all business practices as well as overall direction of the company. Director of Human Resources – Yvonne McMillan – “Develops policy and directs and coordinates human resources activities, such as employment, compensation, labor relations, benefits, training and employee services. “ (Manufacturing) Yvonne’s role is vital in integrating the new technology with the hiring process as well as training. Chief Financial Officer – Dale Edgel – “Direct the accounting, finance and Human Resources functions toward achievement of the company’s key results while upholding company values.” (Manufacturing) Dale needs to be involved because he is...
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...Service Request SR-kf-013 Team D BSA/375 July 6, 2015 Dr. Cheryl Mason Service Request SR-kf-013 Introduction Kudler Fine Foods (KFF), an upscale specialty gourmet foods shop with three locations (La Jolla, Del Mar and Encinitas), has documented interest in the development of a Frequent Shopper Program to allow enhanced information management by tracking customer-purchasing trends. This request is in an effort to boost revenue, increase loyalty, and maximize profitability of KFF’s consumers. Providing a loyalty points system to offer incentives for customer loyalty can be an effective way to collect valuable customer data including future purchasing needs Scope The scope of the project itself will include developing methods to track and analyze customer purchases, collect customer information, reward customers for their loyalty to Kudler, as well as determine a process to base inventory decisions on customer purchase data. These types of systems are very common in most grocery store chains around the world offering discounts on in store products, however KFF is determined to cater to the demographic of their shoppers by taking this program a step further. The system specific to KFF needs, includes a reward points system designed to provide the customer exclusive offers on both in store products and with third party partners. This system will be designed to store customer data while providing reward points to be used for purchases both in-store...
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...Kudler Fine Foods Shopper Program Name(s) University of Phoenix BSA/375 Fundamentals of Business Systems Development Faculty Date Introduction Kudler Fine Food is a local upscale specialty food store. Kudler fine food opened their doors in 1998 and was profitable within the first year. In 2000 the second store opened in De Mar and three years later their third shop opened in Encinitas (Kudler Fine Foods. 2005, 2007). Each store is similarly sized at 8,000 square feet, all in fashionable shopping centers. Their menu includes bakery and pastry products, fresh produce, fresh meat and seafood, condiments and packaged food, and cheese and specialty dairy products. Kudler Fine Foods has experienced success in its stores and now wants to expand on its business processes to include a Frequent Shopper Program. According to the press release located on Kudler’s website, the program will include several benefits for customers. Scope and Goals Customers who elect to participate in the frequent shopper program will receive event notifications, featured product notifications, sale notifications, exclusive offers on different merchandise, and discounts on the cooking and wine classes held by Kudler. Benefits for Kudler will include a better overall pictures of products their most frequent customers are interested in as well as increased revenue because they will have inventory more customized to their customers. Kudler’s overall goal for...
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...Service Request (SR-rm-022) BSA 375 30 July 2015 Service Request SR-rm-022 Section 1 Background Information Riordan Manufacturing is a global plastics manufacturer with facilities located worldwide, with a research and development department located in San Jose California. Riordan Manufacturing has produced a yearly earning forty-six million dollars. Riordan Industries, which is the sole owner of Riordan Manufacturing, is a Fortune 1000 enterprise with revenues reaching over the amount of one-billion dollars. It is highly important to use methods of integrating new systems into Riordan Manufacturing. The method of System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) is a great way to understand the problem, analyze the problem, design the solution, and implement the project. Riordan Manufacturing must revamp its out of date Information Systems, not only in the Human Resource section but in all other sections as well, in order to meet current industry standards, increase efficiency, lower overhead, increase worker productivity and many other factors which will add tremendous value to the company. These values are both tangible and intangible values that cannot be measured by a dollar value alone. This update is in accordance to Service Request SR-rm-022. The most efficient way to update the Human Resource Department would have to include hardware and software that...
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...Learning Team C Week Five Assignment Score Sheet TEAM This is a very good attempt at putting together a system concept for the Kudler Fine Food project. You presented a clear definition of what the Kudler Fine Food Frequent Shopper project was to look like. However, there are some areas that you need to reconsider. I enjoyed reading your paper. General comments: See my comments in your paper. You need to do a thorough review of grammar and spelling. - Grammar, spelling, and/or sentence structure errors detracted from this write up. See my comments in the paper. You need to do a better job at proofing your work for grammar and spelling errors. Take advantage of the Center for Writing Excellence tools. This paper had several APA Style errors. I have indicated in red on this score sheet those sections that did not earn maximum points. I have included my comments in your paper. A commented copy of your paper follows these comments and the scoring matrix. Comments in red text or highlighted in green are deficient. Disregard comments highlighted in yellow – my marking used for grading or gray – information I copied from a different area of your paper. Let me know if you have any questions. Disregard highlights in yellow. I use these to track through your papers. |Subject |Points |Points Earned | | ...
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...Kudler Fine Foods – Proposed Frequent Shopper Rewards Program BSA/375 Todd Feuerherm December 21, 2014 Introduction In Figure 1, we have a basic example of the data being processed through our reward point’s program database. First we have qualifying purchases that determine what points from purchases are rewarded in the transaction. Then we have a designated purchase behavior section that will determine what the customer mostly likes in their purchases and what they mostly buy. Total allocated points are information of points gathered from the customer’s purchases and the total amount available in their rewards history. Preferred purchases is also their purchase behavior but a little more in-depth of what the customers like and are more likely to have interest in when making another purchase. This helps give out certain advertisements to our customers that, through their purchasing behavior, they will find most interesting and highly probable of purchasing. Scope For the scope of this project, implementing a tracking system for customer loyalty is the primary scope of the improvement. The implementation will have an effect throughout the organization as the new Information Technology (IT) customer tracking system will be implemented organization wide. Therefore the scope of examination should be limited to the sales and marketing sections. Scope creep should be limited to changes that provide a significant tangible or intangible impact on the overall business. Functions...
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...EFSA Scientific Report (2009) 231, 1-107 SCIENTIFIC COOPERATION AND ASSISTANCE SCIENTIFIC REPORT OF EFSA Review of the potential health impact of β-casomorphins and related peptides 1 Report of the DATEX Working Group on β-casomorphins (Question N° EFSA-Q-2008-379) Issued on 29 January 2009 WORKING GROUP MEMBERS Ivano De Noni, Richard J. FitzGerald, Hannu J. T. Korhonen, Yves Le Roux, Chris T. Livesey, Inga Thorsdottir, Daniel Tomé, Renger Witkamp. 1 For citation purposes: Scientific Report of EFSA prepared by a DATEX Working Group on the potential health impact of β-casomorphins and related peptides. EFSA Scientific Report (2009) 231, 1-107 © European Food Safety Authority, 2009 Review of the potential health impact of β-casomorphins and related peptides SUMMARY Proteins are a very diverse family of large organic compounds involved in many important biological processes. Following their enzymatic hydrolysis during food processing or digestion, proteins may release fragments from their primary amino acid sequence. These fragments are called peptides, and many of them are known to be physiologically active. The possible beneficial effects of bioactive peptides have attracted increasing interest in recent years. On the other hand, there are also reports suggesting that some food-derived peptides might adversely affect human health. Among these, β-casomorphin-7 (BCM7), a peptide sequence present in the milk protein β-casein, has been suggested to...
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...Vol 450 | 20/27 December 2007 | doi:10.1038/nature06385 LETTERS Isolation of rare circulating tumour cells in cancer patients by microchip technology Sunitha Nagrath1*, Lecia V. Sequist2*, Shyamala Maheswaran2, Daphne W. Bell2{, Daniel Irimia1, Lindsey Ulkus2, Matthew R. Smith2, Eunice L. Kwak2, Subba Digumarthy2, Alona Muzikansky2, Paula Ryan2, Ulysses J. Balis1{, Ronald G. Tompkins1, Daniel A. Haber2 & Mehmet Toner1 Viable tumour-derived epithelial cells (circulating tumour cells or CTCs) have been identified in peripheral blood from cancer patients and are probably the origin of intractable metastatic disease1–4. Although extremely rare, CTCs represent a potential alternative to invasive biopsies as a source of tumour tissue for the detection, characterization and monitoring of non-haematologic cancers5–8. The ability to identify, isolate, propagate and molecularly characterize CTC subpopulations could further the discovery of cancer stem cell biomarkers and expand the understanding of the biology of metastasis. Current strategies for isolating CTCs are limited to complex analytic approaches that generate very low yield and purity9. Here we describe the development of a unique microfluidic platform (the ‘CTC-chip’) capable of efficient and selective separation of viable CTCs from peripheral whole blood samples, mediated by the interaction of target CTCs with antibody (EpCAM)-coated microposts under precisely controlled laminar flow conditions, and without requisite...
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