BSA/310
PROPOSAL
FOR
Business Systems Plan for Riordan Manufacturing
Prepared for
Dr. Michael Riordan, President and CEO
Riordan Manufacturing
By
Learning Team C
University of Phoenix
June 14, 2010
Dr. Michael Riordan
Riordan Manufacturing
One Riordan Plaza
San Jose, Ca 95112
Dear Dr. Riordan,
Submitted for your review is our proposal for Riordan’s business systems plan. This document is in response to your Request for Proposal.
Within our report, you will find the following supporting materials geared towards your request:
• Network Recommendations……………………………….……… Pages 4-7
• Finance and Accounting Recommendations……………………… Pages 7-9
• Sales and Marketing Systems Recommendations..……………….. Pages 9-13
• Human Resources and Legal Systems Recommendations………... Pages 14-16
• Operations Systems Recommendations…………………………... Pages 16-20
Thank you for your interest in our services. We look forward to working with your and will call in the next two weeks to finalize arrangements.
Sincerely,
Learning Team C
University of Phoenix Systems Analysts
Current Network Situation
Riordan Manufacturing has sites in areas: San Jose, Ca; Albany, GA; Pontiac, MI; and Hangzhou, China. All four sites have different network structures and computer hardware on site. The sites in China and California have a traditional client/server structure and Dell Optiflex computers with 2.6GHz processors, with 512 MB of RAM, 60 GB hard drives, which all run on the windows 2000 operating system and have office 2000 on them and a wide variety of servers that can be recycled. The Georgia and Michigan sites currently have non-traditional client/server network structures with Compaq computers that have processors that range from 233 MHz to 600 MHz processors, 32- 256 MB of RAM, that run Windows 98 for an operating system, and also have Microsoft Office.
The Michigan, Georgia and California offices have fractional T-1 lines that...