Riordan Manufacturing

DARREN JACKSON

ENG/322

RIORDAN MANUFACTURING

07 JUNE 2012

Mission and Focus

Riordan Manufacturing mission and focus is to be the industry leaders in using polymer material to provide solutions to their customer’s challenges and to remain the industry leader in identifying industry trends. Riordan Manufacturing will continue to strive to be a solution provider for their customers and not be a part of their customer’s challenges. By seeking long-term relationships sought out by maintain rigorous quality controls, innovative solutions, a responsive business attitude and reasonable pricing. Riordan Manufacturing to achieve this goal by assuring that their employees are well informed and properly supported. And for the future, Riordan Manufacturing must focus on achieving and maintaining seasonable profitability to assure that the financial and human capital is available for sustained growth.

Albany, Ga.

Finance and Accounting

The Georgia location seems to have purchased different software and application source code that is vendor developed. The software is run on a pair of AS400’s, a system that has not been replaced since the 1990’s.

Straigies for Riordan Manufacturing to improve upon its finance and accounting situation is by improving its customer relations, improve marketing strategic objectives setting quarterly goals and setting annual milestones.

Current Business Systems

Riordan Manufacturing current networking system in Albany, Georgia has a vendor developed software application and the attendant source code for their Finance & Administration and manufacturing process applications. The system run on a pair of AS400’s using UNIX operating system, use PC’s (Windows) as workstations, and is programmed in RPG-400.

Needed Business Systems

With upgrades needed with the AS/400 in place at this felicity, there are a number of options that can be considered. Firstly, there is no longer any support for upgrading AS/400’s. The lowest cost option is...