Lean Production at Riordan Manufacturing Lean Production at Riordan Manufacturing OPS 571 Lean Production According to Chase, Jacobs, & Aquilano (2006), “Lean production is an integrated set of activities designed to achieve high-volume production using minimal inventories of raw materials, work-in-process, and finished goods” (p. 471). According to lean philosophy, parts move quickly through the manufacturing process in a “just in time” method. The logic behind lean is that nothing
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RFID and Oracle Inventory System Management Riordan’s daily operations are inefficient and time consuming. Every stage of the supply chain is observed, tracked, recorded, and updated all visually and manually. The delivery of raw materials to the manufacturing warehouse requires a shipping supervisor to receive shipments from truck drivers with the shipping documents to show what has been ordered. This paperwork is than compared to a scheduled orders receiving report. This report is provided
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Lean Production at Riordan Manufacturing OPS 571 Lean Production According to Chase, Jacobs, & Aquilano (2006), “Lean production is an integrated set of activities designed to achieve high-volume production using minimal inventories of raw materials, work-in-process, and finished goods” (p. 471). According to lean philosophy, parts move quickly through the manufacturing process in a “just in time” method. The logic behind lean is that nothing is produced until it is sold and needed.
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Supply Chain Design OPS/571 December 2, 2013 Select a business forecasting technique (qualitative or quantitative) for the electric fans and describe the forecasting process to be used at Riordan. Create a sales forecast for electric fans using selected techniques. Lean Production A business’s operation is only as fast as its slowest process. In order for Riordan Manufacturing to be successful, it needs to seek out and remove bottlenecks. By Riordan identifying these bottlenecks
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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
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Lean production planning is a concept developed in Japan, which is based on finishing goods when they are needed (Chase, Jacobs, & Aquilano, 2006). For Riordan to implement this type of plan, an entire new strategy will need to be developed for handling inventory. Currently, each Riordan plant handles inventory independently. Now Riordan must centralize inventory and ordering systems. The two systems need to be centralized because lean production is based on the theory that goods are produced
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Riordan Business Solutions 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
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Functional Area Relationships: Riordan Manufacturing BUS/475 – Integrated Business Topics March 1, 2010 Dr. Laura Pogue Functional Area Relationships: Riordan Manufacturing Riordan Manufacturing boasts their strategic capabilities and intellectual property strength as having the patents for major polymer material substrates. Because of these patents, Riordan is able to build unique products which create opportunity for their clients. The mission for Riordan is to be a company which pays
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OPS 571 WEEK 6 RIORDAN MANUFACTURING A+ Graded Tutorial Available At: http://hwsoloutions.com/?product=ops-571-week-6-riordan-manufacturing Visit Our website: http://hwsoloutions.com/ Product Description OPS 571 Week 6 Riordan Manufacturing, 1991: Founding of Riordan Plastics 1992: Dr. Riordan purchased a fan manufacturing plant in Pontiac, MI and the company became Riordan Manufacturing, Inc. 1993: Acquired plant in Albany, GA and began to produce plastic beverage bottles 2000:
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Riordan Service Request SR-rm-012 Carolyn Powers, Narada Culpepper, Delores Stevens, Mohamed Desouky, Steven Boettcher, Gregory Ganfi BSA 310 Business Systems Due January 25, 2010 University of Phoenix Riordan Manufacturing Systems Service Request SR-M-012 History and Background of Riordan Manufacturing Riordan Manufacturing Inc. began with Dr. Riordan who was a chemistry professor. Dr. Riordan received approval for a few patents that had something to do with processing polymers
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