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Riordan Manufacturing Business Systems

Riordan Manufacturing is global plastics manufacturer currently possessing 550 employees. Riordan Manufacturing is owned by Riordan Industries, which is a Fortune 1000 company and has revenue exceeding $1 billion. Riordan Manufacturing has plants in Georgia, Michigan, and China. The company’s research and development teams are at the corporate headquarters in San Jose, California. Riordan has many customers but their major ones are automotive parts manufacturers, aircraft manufacturers, the Department of Defense, beverage makers and bottlers, and appliance manufacturers. The plant in Georgia produces plastic beverage containers. Michigan’s plant produces custom plastic parts and China produces plastic fan parts. Riordans future goal is to be focused in reaching and maintaining profitability in ensuring the financial and human capital sustains growth.

Riordan Manufacturing has three separate entities with their own Finance and Accounting Systems. Input from these locations are kept at the corporate office in San Jose. Each system has all the same components other than EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) and EDSS (Executive Decision Support System), which is only available at the San Jose location. The components each system has is:

General Ledger

Accounts Payable

Accounts Receivable

Order Entry

Procurement

Sales and Purchasing History

Payroll

Financial Reporting

Bar Code Reading

As each location was acquired the F&A system’s compatibility was not addressed. This has made it difficult to maintain all the F&A’s data.

San Jose uses a fully integrated Windows based ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) manufacturing, distribution and financial management software. This software is designed for plastic processors and assembly manufacturers. Although the main office in San Jose receives all the data they have the issue of having to convert this data into the correct accounts.

Operating systems were kept...