Process Design for Riordan Manufacturing The Riordan Manufacturing plant in Hangzhou, China operates its manufacturing unit to prepare the electric fan to provide the worldwide supply based on the production forecast sales extrapolated using the theory of moving averages for last three years. This paper includes an analysis of the material requirement planning, existing process design, application of supply-chain concepts including any available global opportunities. Additionally, this paper
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Structures Allan Williams ECO/GM561 July 26, 2013 Steve Fritch The MRP for the manufacturing of the Riordan electric fans. Materials Requirement Planning (MRP) is a scheduling procedure for production processes that have several levels of production. Given information describing the production requirements of the several finished goods of the system, the structure of the production system, the current inventories for each operation and the lot sizing procedure for each operation, MRP determines
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Currently Riordan uses a very conventional, antiquated process for inventory management. Most inventory checks are done through a printed form and then handed off to an Inventory Clerk for data entry. This process consumes time and allows room for human error. To enhance the inventory management at Riordan Manufacturing, implementation of a barcode scanning system and Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) system is recommended. This system will provide full automation of inventory tracking
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Separation of Duties at Riordan Manufacturing James Shoemaker CMGT 430 August 20, 2012 Bradley Andrews Separation of Duties at Riordan Manufacturing Identifying and managing risk is a key to the survival of every organization that has more than one or two people involved in the day-to-day activities. Anytime that an organization allows an opportunity for a single user to perform more than one task or function that requires checks and balances the opportunity for loss to the organization
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The Goal of this summary is to provide Riordan Manufacturing the ability to facilitate business needs for the four divisions within Riordan Manufacturing; Finance and Accounting, Internet Site, Sales and Marketing, Human Resources and Legal, and Operations. Finance and Accounting Presently, all four locations use finance and accounting systems to collect, analyze and generate financial data for the company’s sales and revenue reports. This requires the company to manually generate reports, re-enter
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Overview and Scope of Work Riordan has 500 employees with a projected annual earnings of $46 million and a fortune of 1000 enterprises with revenues of $1 billion. Riordan Manufacturing has 4 worldwide locations Albany Georgia, Pontiac Michigan, Hangzhou China, and the company headquarters in San Jose. Riordan is seeking a solution to improve the tracking and management of its raw materials and finished product inventory across all its plants. The receiving, manufacturing, and shipping process throughout
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review of the Operations Department of Riordan Manufacturing, we have uncovered a few areas that would benefit from the addition of a robust business system to manage some of its functions. The first issue is a process that all four plants have in place for the management of receiving raw materials, tracking products during manufacturing, and accounting for the finished good inventories. During each of these phases, all of the data acquired to track the inventory is delivered or gathered through the
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for Riordan Manufacturing Barbara Back Tasheia Pelham Ellison Jennifer Perrone Cheri Reed Andreas Tsircou OPS/571 February 13, 2012 William E. Mahoney February 13, 2012 Dear Riordan Manufacturing Management Team, Learning Team C has completed the analysis of Riordan Manufacturing’s electric fan design process and has developed a proposal outlining the changes that need to be implemented. The team is proposing to focus on total quality management (TQM); this will allow Riordan to
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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
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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
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