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Riordan Manufacturing
Accounting and Information Systems
XACC 210
Riordan Manufacturing Accounting and Information Systems
Riordan Manufacturing is a global plastics manufacturer with approximately 550 employees and projected annual earnings of 46 million. Riordan Manufacturing is headquartered in San Jose, California and has plants located in Pontiac, Michigan, which manufactures plastic parts; Albany, Georgia, which manufactures plastic beverage containers; and Hangzhou, China, which manufactures plastic fan parts. The corporate facility in San Jose is responsible for research and development.
Each of these facilities maintains their own Finance and Accounting departments which is consolidated at Corporate. According to Apollo Group, Inc. (2013) Riordan Manufacturing, Finance and Accounting are currently running as follows:
* San Jose has a license for a fully integrated Windows based ERP manufacturing, distribution and financial management software application specifically designed for plastics processors and process and assembly manufacturers. The license does not include application source code.
* Michigan had purchased a vendor developed software application and the attendant source code for their Fd & A and process application. The vendor is no longer in business. The application runs on a pair of DEC Alpha's, using the VMS operating system, VAX4000 work stations and programmed in C.
* Georgia had purchased a vendor (different from Michigan) developed software application and the attendant source code for their F & A and manufacturing process applications. The systems run on a pair of AS400's, using UNIX operating system, use PC's (Windows) as workstations, and is programmed in RPG400.
The problem with the current lay out is that each facility uses different types of hardware and software applications which causes compatibility issues at corporate. The data received by corporate comes in the form of data files, some are...