Riordan Manufacturing is a veteran harbinger in global plastics manufacturing employing over 500 employees in manufacturing facilities spread across the United States. Riordan Manufacturing is an industry leader in manufacturing plastic beverage containers and plastic injection molding in just about any pattern. Each Riordan facility is responsible for manufacturing specific components pertaining to a final product; the site in Albany Georgia’s primary focus is manufacturing beverage containers, The Pontiac Michigan site primarily focuses on manufacturing custom plastic molds and patterns, The international site located in Hangzhou China produces plastic fan parts. Riordan’s corporate office is located in San Jose California, this is where a majority of the corporations research and development action plans are created and reviewed by executive leadership. Riordan Manufacturing is an industry leader in its field, with a strong mission focus, customer relationship and reputation, this corporation will continue to grow and expand in a technological revolving world. As part of keeping up with current technology Riordan Manufacturing is imposing a systems integration of their current Human Resource Information System. Information gathering techniques that would be helpful in implementing the new system is to conduct interviews and send out questionnaires. These two methods will gather sufficient information on what the end-users would want when integrating the old system to new.
Riordan Manufacturing’s computer network is not uniform amongst each facility, although each site does contain uniform UNIX ERP servers, this could be the common factor that will relate and connect each site. Riordan Manufacturing executives have implemented a project that will take advantage of sophisticated state of the art technology that is available in today’s market. The current Human Resources Information system was implemented in 1992 with the rollout of the financial systems...