Riordan Manufacturing Scott Wissel OPS/571 February 24, 2013 Kristina Limon Riordan, a chemistry professor, found some ways to increase the tensile strength on polymers and patented the ideas. Eventually he was able to get some capital and started to manufacture his product. Riordan Manufacturing is a company that has 550 people. They are also looking to have $46 million of projected annual earnings. Riordan Industries owns the company that is a fortune 1000 enterprise that has over
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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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Production Plan for Riordan Manufacturing Falon McCoy, Jennifer Smith, and Maria Utting OPS/571 July 31, 2012 Robin Aoks Production Plan for Riordan Manufacturing Riordan Manufacturing is a global company that uses plastics injection moldings for the production of plastic fan parts, and plastic beverage containers. Headquartered in San Jose, California, Riordan factories also exist in Georgia, Michigan, and Hangzhou, China. The fortune 500 company has approximately 550 employees and projected
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implementation of the total quality management process. Thus, there’s the framework, which includes six supply chain strategies along with ISO, Six-Sigma, and Baldridge to incorporate within a business. The company I chose to analyze is the Riordan Manufacture Corporation. I will examine and analyze the importance and measurement of Riordan Manufacture Corporation and its components. Riordan Manufacture is a global plastics manufacturer; which has incorporated quality management (QM) into its
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trade Riordan Manufacturing must stay up on the latest and greatest ideas and trends. While doing this Riordan must also tend to the needs of the new customers it creates and the concerns of the existing customers it has made. In the following we will discuss the similar competitive advantages of a Riordan and other companies such as General Mills and Apple, Inc. that were researched in addition to Riordan by team members last week. We will then estimate which competitive strategies Riordan could
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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
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Riordan’s Operations Department After a thorough 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
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Market 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,
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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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the profit. This is the situation at Riordan Manufacturing where the price it paid to do business was less than what it made, defining a clear value in what Riordan provides. Riordan’s Sales and Marketing department has a clear value; $50 million is sales to show of it. But how do we show the value for other departments within the organization such as Information Systems (IS) and Information Technology (IT) solutions? While the IS and IT costs and what Riordan pays for it are clear from looking at
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