...Riordan Manufacturing Business System Proposal Paul Belanger, Aaron Ledger, Dacia Faulk, Ian Westerfield, Jennifer Gallaway University of Phoenix Introduction Being the industry leader in polymer materials and per our mission statement, Riordan Manufacturing must remain in step with industry trends. In order to effectively attain this objective, we must acclimatize, embrace, and take advantage of new and innovative technologies. In addition to identifying existing systems employed within the company that are in need of upgrades, the remainder of this paper will also address new systems as well as sub-systems needed and present a brief summary of why these systems would be advantageous to the future of Riordan Manufacturing. Finance and Accounting Overview Riordan manufacturing employs nine basic finance and accounting subsystems globally and three additional subsystems at the San Jose, California corporate headquarters. The atmosphere of interoperability between each of Riordan’s offices (California, Georgia, Michigan, and China) is at best hostile. At present, each operating entity has its own finance and accounting system resulting in a number of inefficiencies due to company-wide systems incompatibility, a lot of which stems from the Michigan and Georgia acquisition. To better establish potential interoperability between existing subsystems, it is first necessary to define the current subsystems of each Riordan office, existing software solutions, and how these...
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...existing and needed business systems of Riordan manufacturing (Smith Services Consulting Inc., 2011). The management of Riordan Manufacturing has submitted Service Request SR-rm-012 – Business Systems to have Smith Consulting create a summary of the business systems needed for effective management. Technical Team Bravo will begin with an overview of the current systems that exist in the areas of Finance and Accounting, Payroll and Human Resources, Information Technology, and Sales and Marketing. For each area covered, Technical Team Bravo will describe the business systems and subsystems used, identify who uses them, identify interrelations between business systems and subsystems, and include any noted disparities. Technical Team Bravo will conclude with a summary of suggestions for a systems plan to improve management (Smith Services Consulting Inc., 2011). Accounting Systems Riordan Manufacturing currently has six Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP) systems throughout four locations. These servers are accessed at the local level by 16 clients (PC’s.) The current challenge to management is the disparate systems and inconsistencies with respect to reporting capabilities and collaboration. Management needs to consolidate these systems into one Cloud-Based ERP/MRP solution that can handle real-time inventory management controls, and comprehensive, robust reporting tools. The San Jose office has an ERP and MRP system that handles inventory...
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...Riordan Manufacturing BSA/500 September 9, 2013 Riordan Manufacturing This document considers the impact of external influences on Riordan’s business; assesses the current financial state of Riordan Manufacturing, using standard tools to analyze the income statement, balance sheet and cash position; examines the financial and accounting systems in use, and their efficacy; and, recommends potential improvements to these systems and their integration to other systems. These improvements include additional accounting software modules to facilitate reporting, internal and external audits, and regulatory compliance. Influences Riordan Manufacturing is a corporation that has several influences affecting business processes and its financial state. Most organizations are affected by economic, government, and legal influences to varying degrees. The key economic influences affecting Riordan Manufacturing are real GDP growth, inflation, labor cost, interest rates, global monetary values, and fuel prices. These economic influences have an effect on the operational cost and liabilities of Riordan Manufacturing. Tax rates, environmental regulation, customs regulations, and employment regulations are some key government influences that affect Riordan's operational cost and income taxes paid. Riordan is a multi-national corporation, the government influences of each nation Riordan operates in have different affects. The key legal influences are tax laws, environmental...
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...Riordan Manufacturing Final Paper BSA/502 Riordan Manufacturing As an information technology consulting team working for Riordan Manufacturing, Team C will review, assess and make recommendations for improvements to the company’s business infrastructure. These recommendations will include software in the following business areas: human resources, operations, and logistics, legal, and finally, sales, and Marketing. Riordan Manufacturing Inc. like most companies can benefit from process improvements and the implementation of software solutions to improve its human resources, operations and logistics, and legal processes. Human Resources Focus According to Nickels, McHugh, and McHugh (2010), attracting and keeping the best employees is one of the fundamental goals of human resources management. People are the most valuable resource in any organization because their knowledge and creativity translate to products and services that business models depend on. Riordan Manufacturing Inc. faces some challenges with human resources management and is in need of some solutions. Existing Human Resource Management Systems (HRMS) in Riordan manufacturing Inc. * Employee Database * Payroll System * Training and Development System * Recruitment and Selection system * Hiring System * Compensation System * Compliance System * Performance management system Recommended Human Resources Management Systems (HRMS) Oracle HRMS Oracle HRMS is part of Oracle’s...
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...David J. Henry Service Request SR-RM-001 Riordan Manufacturing Company presents itself as a solutions provider of polymer materials. As with any large organization, oftentimes business executives seek the consult of external subject matter experts to help companies operate more efficiently. Riordan recently solicited the SHWS Consulting Group and its constituents to review Riordan’s current inventory and manufacturing systems and processes. After spending several weeks with Riordan and visiting each site, the consultants recognized opportunities to improve key areas of the company’s systems supporting its inventory and manufacturing process. Executive Summary SHWS Consultants met with Riordan Manufacturing to discuss the details of Riordan’s inventory and manufacturing processes. Riordan believes the company should reassess and possibly upgrade its existing inventory systems. The firm’s executives agree that re-evaluating the computer systems could grow revenue and drastically reduce or eliminate the opportunities for human errors in receiving, tracking, and managing inventory. Upgrading the systems also simplifies employees’ jobs, which directly affects morale and can lead to increased productivity. During the initial meeting to clarify and set Riordan’s expectations, SHWS Consultants agreed to provide Riordan documentation indicating the business processes needing improvement and the specified business requirements. The consultants also agreed to provide...
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...Riordan Manufacturing-Business Systems Review Student Name BSA/310 Riordan Manufacturing-Business Systems Review Mission Riordan Manufacturing is the industry leader in the field of plastic injection molding. Innovative plastic designs are Riordan's specialty used in the manufacture of medical stents, heart valves, fans, plastic bottles, and other custom parts. One of the fastest growing organizations in its field, Riordan Manufacturing is a for profit organization with annual earnings of up to $46 million. Full potential of growth and profit generation for Riordan Manufacturing is not being achieved. The focus for the company's future and their mission statement is "achieving and maintaining reasonable profitability to assure that the financial and human capital is available for sustained growth. By assuring that our employees are well informed and properly supported, we will provide a climate focused on the long term viability of our company. And we will strive to be a solution provider for our customers and not be a part of our customer's challenges." There is room for improvement in all successful companies, including Riordan Manufacturing. To reach its full potential of generating profit, and to grow as an organization, there is a need for improvements to all business systems in all departments. Description Finance and Accounting All financial transactions for the company are the responsibility of the Financial and Accounting Department of Riordan Manufacturing...
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...discuss in detail the software currently in use at the four facilities of Riordan Manufacturing. Likewise, the paper will discuss the recommended software upgrades suggested by Team A in week 2. These recommendations will allow Riordan Manufacturing and its employee’s to work more efficiently and have greater overall productivity. This will ensure that Riordan Manufacturing will stay one step ahead of their competitors and have the ability to do business in a more professional manner. To do this, Riordan Manufacturing will need upgrades involving both hardware and software with minimal training and downtime. Introduction Riordan Manufacturing must update their current software and hardware systems to become up-to-date and competitive. Riordan Manufacturing consists of four separate locations, which all currently use dated software systems such as Microsoft 98 OS and Microsoft Office 2K, updating these outdated systems will increase efficiency with the advancements in newer systems. Riordan Manufacturing also has older outdated servers and switches that should be replaced to increase computing speed and transfer time. Updating the overall software architecture of Riordan will see gains overall for Riordan Manufacturing. Company Background 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...
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...Riordan Manufacturing Systems Analysis and Recommendations BSA 502 February 21, 2011 Donn Leiske Riordan Manufacturing: Systems Analysis and Recommendations Riordan Manufacturing has been an industry-leader since 1992 in the design and manufacturing of plastic injection molding. Riordan is renowned for its excellence in the research and development of innovative plastic designs and products (i.e. plastic bottles, fans, heart valves, medical stents and custom plastic parts). With its state-of-the art design capabilities, Riordan distinguishes itself by striving to achieve and set the standard by which other plastics manufacturing companies are modeled (Apollo Group, Inc., 2004). Capitalizing upon its reputation as a world-class solution provider, Riordan applies Six Sigma principles and ISO 9000 standards to ensure they are supplying their customers with the highest quality solutions possible. Riordan’s goal is to maintain long-term relationships with its customers and make this relationship non-challenging and profitable for all concerned. In addition to Riordan’s customer focus approach to conducting business, Riordan also works hard to provide an innovative and team-oriented work place in which its employees can thrive (Apollo Group, Inc., 2006). Riordan Manufacturing, founded by Dr. Michael Riordan, employs a diverse workforce of 550 employees throughout four worldwide locations which include, Riordan’s Corporate Headquarters located in San Jose, CA whose primary...
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...Abstract Riordan Manufacturing is located in Georgia, Michigan and California with an additional site in the People’s Republic of China. Each location manages his or her individual Finance & Accounting Systems. All sites provide their information which is consolidated at Corporate Headquarters in San Jose, California. Riordan Manufacturing is a global plastics manufacturer employing 550 people with projected annual earnings of $46 million. There will always be areas of improvement when a company this size continues to expand. The company currently would like to build a stronger relationship with its customers. In order to succeed, the companies marketing efforts need to be expanded to a wider customer base. Riordan Manufacturing also needs update and control their inventory and manufacturing processes. Aligning all sites to use the same databases and network application systems to share data would be a good business improvement as well. Strategic Plan Development Summarize the Mission and Vision Statement, and Identify the Strategic Objectives The nature of a business is often expressed in terms of the Mission and Vision statements which indicate the purpose and goals of the business. Mission Statements and Vision Statements can be thought of as the foundation or the building blocks of the business. It tells the consumer what kind of business they are in and what it is all about. Riordan Manufacturing has a strong mission statement that helps convey the importance...
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...Business Systems and Subsystems BSA 310 September 2nd, 2013 Home Page Riordan Manufacturing is a large manufacturing company that produces many products and has many services available around the globe. From the looks of their home page there are several different systems that they employ, but in addition to that there are many different systems and subsystems that have been identified as required by Riordan Manufacturing. Selling and producing this many products, Riordan are operating at a high volume so there will be a great deal of transactions. We are sure that throughout the different locations there are will separate transaction systems with systems connecting to a central system. When reviewing the home page we can also see that they have employed a great deal of such systems. Riordan uses a payroll system, to keep information about employee’s earnings information, such as hours worked or check amounts. Additionally, they use a transaction processing system to process this information to pay their employees accordingly. There is also evidence that within the homepage that they would employ a supply chain management system because of the large production of their...
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...Riordan Corporate Compliance Plan Law 531 Riordan Corporate Compliance Plan Riordan Manufacturing, as a global plastics manufacturing company, has become a pioneer in its industry and has an employment base of approximately 550 people and has an annual earnings projected around $46 million. The company possesses a plant in Albany, Georgia that produces containers for beverage companies, a plant for manufacturing custom plastics in Pontiac, Michigan, and its Hangzhou, China plant develops plastic parts for fans. Riordan’s research and development group holds the title as the industry leader in identifying industry trends in research and development. Research and development activities are performed at Riordan’s corporate headquarters in San Jose, California. Beverage companies, automotive, aircraft, and appliance parts manufacturers and the Department of Defense are clients who can be found at the top of Riordan’s list of customers (University of Phoenix, 2012). Current Situation Riordan Manufacturing has recently suffered some strategic changes in the production and marketing areas. There are times when these types of changes begin to affect employee retention numbers. In order to make a business prosper, the company must take care of their employees. These leaders are concerned that employees might have private information and share it with commercial competitors. The other issue is that management is troubled that employees may leave because...
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...Riordan Manufacturing Service Request SR-RM-012 Learning Team B Tony Jones Michael Jackksen George Thomas University of Phoenix Online CMGT578-IT Strategic Planning September 2, 2013 Company Overview Riordan Manufacturing is a global plastics manufacture with around 550 employees, Riordan annual earnings is project to be 46 million. Riordan Manufacturing is owned by Riordan Industries, a fortune 1000 company based in San Jose California with more than 1 billion in revenues. Dr. Riordan a chemistry professor founded the company in 1991 and it has grown to a global organization with locations in Michigan, Georgia, and China. In 1992 the company got its name after Dr. Riordan obtained venture capital and purchased a fan manufacturing plant in Pontiac, Michigan. Mission Statement Riordan Manufacturing mission is to be the leader in using polymer materials to provide solutions to their customer challenges and to be the leader in identifying trends. Riordan customer focus is to build long-term relationships through maintaining quality controls, innovative solutions, a responsive business attitude, and reasonable in price. The company committee to maintaining an innovative and team orientated work environment providing a climate focused on the long term growth of the company. Service Request Riordan Manufacturing placed a service request for all locations to review existing business systems. All areas within the organization are...
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...SR-rm-022, Part 1 Riordan Manufacturing is a global plastics manufacturer employing 550 people with projected annual earnings of $46 million. All though Riordan Manufacturing Industries is a Fortune 1000 enterprise and a global manufacturer of plastic they currently do not have an integrated system that brings all the sites together as one.Currently, there are three sites that they manufacture from in Hangzhou China, Pontiac, Michigan, and Albany, Georgia. Riordan’s headquarters are located in San Jose, California, here the research needed to maintain Riordan’s success is done. Riordan Manufacturing, like any company, would not be able to experience any success without their loyal customers and the company’s steak holders. The key stakeholders within the Riordan Manufacturing Company that I would gather requirements from first would be would be management. After the management I would gather information from the employees. No one knows a company better then its staff. I would hold a meeting with the entire staff to decipher what the company’s current business challenges and future requirements this will as help me identify the company’s current and future business process flow. Once this is done key requirements which were gathered during the focus group will be consolidated into what will be foundation of the new system Riordan Manufacturing Company. The analysis tool I would propose for this project would be SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) “The systems development life...
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... Service Request Part 1 Riordan Manufacturing is a global producer and manufacturer in the global plastics industries and has about 550 people that have a projected annual earning of over $46 million dollars. Riordan has a manufacturing plant located in Albany, GA that is capable of producing plastic beverage containers, another plant that is located in Pontiac MI that is capable of producing custom plastic parts, and another plant located in Hangzhou, China that produces plastic fan parts. The corporate offices and research and development department of Riordan are located in San Jose, California. Riordan Manufacturing is part of Riordan industries Inc. and this company is a fortune 1000 enterprise and it has revenues that exceed 1 billion dollars ("Riordan Manufacturing", 2013). The COO of Riordan manufacturing Mr. Hugh McCauley has given a Service Request SR-rm-022 to Smith Services Consulting Inc. Mr. Hugh would like Smith services to integrate an existing variety of human relations tools within a single integrated application that would use the human relations existing tools. This request from the COO will have an affect on all plant locations for Riordan Manufacturing. Riordan is trying to take advantage of new technology and be more sophisticated in ways of operating there Human Resources department. Some of what is expected from Riordan Manufacturing is that the Human Resources department will be capable of meeting the business requirements needed in order...
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...Business Requirements and IS Proposal Team B University of Phoenix CIS/207 April 11, 2012 Dr. Jeorge S. Hurtarte' Business Requirements and IS Proposal Introduction Riordan Manufacturing is an international company that manufactures plastic. In 1991, Dr. Riordan, a chemistry professor, focused on processing polymers into strong plastic substrates. A year later he acquired a fan manufacturing plant in Pontiac, MI. After growth of the production of plastic containers, Riordan changed the company name to “Riordan Manufacturing, Inc. The company has four locations but research for Riordan Manufacturing Inc. takes place in San Jose, which is the corporate headquarters. One product developed by Riordan includes plastic beverage containers produced in Albany, Georgia. The organization has a need for both internal and external audits on a monthly basis. It is challenging to meet the terms of the new government reporting requisites. The current system is aging and requires constant manual intervention to update. Team B will be elaborating on how the enhancement of the current computer systems will make Riordan Manufacturing Inc. more efficient by coming up with a proposed solution of implementation. Business requirements: How to use computer system utilization to become more efficient Riordan Manufacturing currently remains at a competitive level of operations and an industry leader in plastic injection molding (University of Phoenix, 2011). However, the company...
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