Riordan Manufacturing
Riordan Manufacturing
“Riordan Manufacturing is a global plastics manufacturer employing 550 people with projected annual earnings of $46 million. The company is wholly owned by Riordan Industries, a Fortune 1000 enterprise with revenues in excess of $1 billion” (The Apollo Group Inc., 2012). Riordan Manufacturing is headquartered in San Jose where research and development also takes place. This growing company has enlisted the help of ABC Technology to help restructure and refine its business systems and sub-systems to ensure optimum performance and cohesiveness throughout its multiple departments. In addition to the Home page, Riordan Manufacturings website consists of several departmental pages including Accounting and Finance, Sales and Marketing, Human Resources, Operations, Legal, and Information Technology that provide in site into daily functionality and future needs of each its business systems and sub-systems.
The companys Home page consists of brief descriptions of Riordan Manufacturing, its history, and its mission. In 1991 the company originally began as Riordan Plastics, Inc. by Dr. Riordan who owned patents in processing polymers into a variety of strong plastic products. In 1992 the company changed its name to Riordan Manufacturing, Inc. and expanded by purchasing a fan manufacturing plant in Pontiac, MI. Shortly after in 1993, the company acquired a manufacturing plant in Albany, Georgia. In 2000, the company began to expand internationally by opening and moving its fan manufacturing to China and converted the Pontiac location to a custom plastic parts manufacturing plant. The company proclaims to be an industry leader in polymer materials and identifying industry trends. Riordan Manufacturings team-oriented and well supported workplace allows employees to provide revolutionary products to be used for automotive parts, aircraft, and appliance manufacturing industries as well as by the Department of Defense, beverage makers, and bottlers. In the future, there will be additional focus placed on maintaining profitability and sustainable growth (The Apollo Group Inc., 2012).
Savvas (2012) stated, “Almost 90 percent of business leaders believe technology will fuel UK economic growth over the next decade.” Technology such as automated forms are stored and generated on databases that can maintain hundreds of financial and logistical transactions daily is the key to achieving maximum profitability and continuous growth. Riordan Manufacturing current systems are outdated subsystems. These systems are a part of the Windows® based Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) for financial, distribution, and manufacturing management software applications which were developed specifically for plastics processors and assembly manufactures. Although the headquarters possesses a license for a fully integrated ERP system, there are serious issues with the