Riordan Manufacturing System Kao Yang, Tiara Smith, Greg Scott, Thomas Adams BSA 310 December 5, 2013 Oswald Angst Riordan Manufacturing System Riordan Manufacturing was founded with the intention to provide patents for processing different types of plastic. The founder, Dr. Riordan, already had several of these patents ready for licensing. While in possession of these patents, the company would be able to provide a unique product to its consumers. Alternatively, the company could charge
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Problem Solution: Riordan Manufacturing Riordan Manufacturing (Riordan) is a global plastics company owned by a Fortune 1000 enterprise, Riordan Industries. It produces plastic beverage containers in Albany, Georgia, custom plastic parts in Pontiac, Michigan and plastic fan parts in Hangzhou, China. Riordan's Research and Development is conducted in San Jose, California, corporate headquarters. Declining sales and profits has forced Riordan to change its sales processes and adopt a customer-relationship
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Riordan Manufacturing SR-rm-012 Final Project BSA/310 – Business Systems Company Background Information Owned by a Fortune 1000 enterprise Riordan Manufacturing is one of the leading global plastics manufacturer with a projected annual earnings of $46 million. Since the company’s inception in 1991, Riordan Manufacturing expanded and acquired a manufacturing plant in Pontiac, MI and another manufacturing plant in Albany, GA, its headquarters is house in San Jose, CA. They have also created
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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
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Change Management and Communication Plan Names Date Course Facilitator Change Management and Communication Plan Team C Consultants has been tasked with creating a change management and communication plan for Riordan Manufacturing, an organization that has identified the need to implement a formal customer information system to be used by all employees. To create these plans, Team C reviewed Riordan’s intranet site to understand better different aspects of the organization
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Riordan Manufacturing Systems BSA/375 October 6, 2014 Riordan Manufacturing Systems Hugh McCauley, COO, has submitted a service request for the Human Resources (HR) department to integrate the department's current systems into one integrated application. Mr. McCauley is the main point of contact for this project. The systems analyst has reviewed the service request and studied a listing of what systems are currently in place. Using the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodology,
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Introduction Riordan Manufacturing, a Fortune 1000 enterprise wholly owned by Riordan Industries, uses its 550 employees to manage plastics products globally. In 1991, Dr. Riordan, a professor in chemistry, started Riordan Plastics to support the commercial applications for his patent. One year later the company was expanded to include a fan manufacturing plant in Pontiac, MI, and the name was changed to Riordan Manufacturing. An additional expansion in 1993 added a plastic beverage container
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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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Running head: RIORDAN BENCHMARKING Riordan Benchmarking Research University of Phoenix MMPBL 560 Managing in a Cross-Cultural Environment November 9, 2009 Managing across cultures is no easy task for any organization regardless of its economies of scale or long standing reputation in the market; the challenges are many, including coping with the flux of change, managing diverse groups of employees, communicating, and negotiating agreements with host countries. This paper illustrates
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Accounting Information Systems; Riordan Manufacturing Accounting Information Systems; Riordan Manufacturing Looking at the company’s information page, you can observe almost anything that goes on within the company. With the shire size of a global company such as this one, you know that they have to use a lot of different systems just to remain profitable. Their web site states that “Riordan Manufacturing is a global plastics manufacturer employing 550 people with projected annual earnings of
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