Riordan Manufacturing’s Business Improvement Recommendations

Riordan Manufacturing’s Business Improvement Recommendations

















Riordan Manufacturing’s Business Improvement Recommendations
Phylicia Johnson, Larry Williams, and Tony E. Rumford
BSA/502 Business Systems II
Murali Ramachandran
October 19, 2015









 Riordan Manufacturing’s Business Improvement Recommendations
Riordan Manufacturing is a manufacturer that has distributed plastics universally and has garnered over 550 employees and has an estimated annual bottom line of $46 million. This company has become a fortune 1000 company and has surplus revenue that’s well over $1 billion dollars. So overall this company is obviously well respected and has impressive numbers but still has a ways to go in order to be the leading in its pack of manufacture’s especially those that deal in plastics and its distribution.
Riordan Manufacturing has a list of products that range from plastic beverage containers, plastic parts, and plastic fan parts. All of these products are created in a range of different cities and countries, the plastic beverages containers are created in Albany GA, the plastic parts are created in Pontiac Michigan, and the plastic fan parts are created in Hangzhou, China. There’s also a company headquarters’ in San Jose where the company’s development and research is done.
Accounting, Sales, Financing and Marketing
An Executive Decision Support System (EDSS) is only utilized in the San Jose main branch. This Decision Support System inventories the information assets (such as data warehouses, and data marts), presents sales figures between multiple periods for comparison, and allows projected revenue figures based on product sales assumptions.
Their transaction processing system (TPS) keeps track of sales and all information pertaining to those sales; dates, order, delivery, and payment dates. Each member of the sales force maintains individual sets of customer records for 15-20 major clients and 12 minor clients in a variety of ways; pen and paper, software, and...

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