Existing and Needed Business Systems for Riordan Manufacturing

Riordan Manufacturing Background

Riordan Manufacturing is a plastics manufacturer based in San Jose, CA with plants in Albany, GA, Pontiac, MI, and Hangzhou, China. Plastics manufactured include beverage containers, fan parts, and custom plastic parts. This in turn means they have several varied clients, including beverage manufacturers and the Department of Defense. The company has revenues exceeding $1 Billion a year.

Riordan Manufacturing Mission

Our Focus

• Six Sigma, leading edge R&D and exceeding ISO 9000 standards define the attitude and abilities of Riordan Manufacturing.

• We are industry leaders in using polymer materials to provide solutions to our customers challenges.

• Our R&D is, and will remain, the industry leader in identifying industry trends.

Our Customer Relationships

• We will strive to be a solution provider for our customers and not be a part of our customers challenges.

• Long-term relationships will be sought by maintaining rigorous quality controls, innovative solutions, a responsive business attitude and reasonable pricing.

Our Employees

• We will maintain an innovative and team oriented working environment.

• By assuring that our employees are well informed and properly supported, we will provide a climate focused on the long term viability of our company.

Our Future

• We must be focused in achieving and maintaining reasonable profitability to assure that the financial and human capital is available for sustained growth.

(Apollo Group Inc, 2003,2004,2006)

Current Business System for Finance

The current system for Riordan’s finance and accounting department is inefficient to say the least. Currently, all locations have their own general ledger, Accounts Payable and Receivable, Invoice, and Payroll systems. The EDSS, Barcode reading, and EDI are done only in San Jose.

Computer Systems

The San Jose ERP system is the backbone, although they do not have the rights to the application’s code. The other...