Riordan Manufacturing employs 550 people worldwide with projected annual earnings of $46 million and operates as a global plastics manufacturer. Riordan Manufacturing, Inc. is one of the industry leaders in the field of plastic injection molding in terms of both total volume and quality. By utilizing the company's state-of -- the art design competencies, Riordan Manufacturing can create innovative plastic designs that are well respected in their applications. Riordan holds its headquarters in San Jose, California, and domestic offices in Albany, Georgia and Pontiac, Michigan. Riordan also has a plastic fan parts facility in Hangzhou, China. The company's production competencies include items such as attention to detail, extreme precision and enthusiastic quality control. Riordan Manufacturing is wholly owned by Riordan Industries, a Fortune 1000 enterprise.
Riordan Manufacturing is in the process of implementing a lean production model in order to eliminate waste, minimize inventory levels and enable suppliers and internal procurement…...

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SAP. (N.d.). Controlling the BOM Explosion. Retrieved from SAP Help:  http://help.sap.com/saphelp_470/helpdata/en/92/58c115417011d189ec0000e81ddfac/content.htm 

Watson, M. (2012, February 16). Safety Stock Helps Buffer Against Variability in the Supply Chain. Retrieved from Logistics Viewpoints:  http://logisticsviewpoints.com/2012/02/16/guest-commentary-safety-stock-helps-buffer-against-variability-in-the-supply-chain/ 

Wells, D. (N.d.). The Advantages of an MRP System. Retrieved from eHow Money: http://www.ehow.com/list_6769385_advantages-mrp-system.html

Riordan Manufacturing HRIS Systems Development:
Since the existing Human Resource Information Systems at Riordan Manufacturing is an old-fashioned system by more than a decade, the company needs to develop a new system as part of its efforts to progress with new technology. With the ongoing technological advancements, the company needs to analyze and update its systems regularly in order to enhance the effectiveness and speed of their human resource systems. This new system should incorporate all the information that the human resource department uses on a day-to-day basis and permit restricted access to employees outside this department. This is because several processes in the current system within the company have been found disjointed and integration of these processes will result in a more secure, efficient and seamless system. Prior to the installation of the new system, Riordan Manufacturing will need to provide an enormous amount of employee training.

System Requirements:

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iordan Manufacturing Compliance Plan

Plans for alternative dispute resolution (AD) techniques can help control the environment of an organization by establishing the values and expected integrity of the members of the organization (Bibi 2011; COSO 2009). Though such resolution techniques are typically not binding and are not required in many cases by any external laws, iordan Manufacturing will take advantage of such techniques for both the ethical and pragmatic benefits provided: litigation can be costly, and AD techniques are often more efficient and lead to more mutually beneficial resolutions (Bibi 2011). Standard employment contracts (as well as third-party contracts with vendors, suppliers, and contractors as necessary and possible) with iordan Manufacturing will include a clause insisting upon arbitration as an initial dispute resolution process of other internal procedures and controls prove ineffective in resolving a given dispute.

When it comes to liability, iordan Manufacturing has a great deal of vulnerability and…...

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Bibi, W. (2011). Coso's Internal Control Integrated Framework. Bibi Consulting. Accessed 18 March 2011.  http://bibiconsulting.homestead.com/website.html/ 

COSO. (2009). Guidance on Monitoring Internal Control Systems. COSO.

IFRS. (2011). Accessed 18 March 2011.  http://www.ifrs.org/Home.htm 

Keating, G. (2001). The Theory of Enterprise Liability and Common Law Strict Liability. Vanderbilt Law Review 54(3): 1285-335.

Riordan Manufacturing
Change Management Plan

Through development and adding new facilities to the organization, it has been determined that a new software platform is needed to make the company more competitive. Riordan Manufacturing Company is a multi-billion dollar plastics manufacturer, which makes good use of top-of-the-line technological equipment for its home base in San Juan. However, the multi-billion dollar company has yet to implement a complete enterprise resource planning software platform for many of its locations. Some locations have finance and accounting departments that operate completely independently of the parent company and their data must be re-entered into the main system. Furthermore, it takes a significant amount of effort to reconcile the data between these systems and the data that top executives have access to is not up-to-date at any given time.

Riordan, given its size and market position, desperately needs a platform upgrade in many locations. Running different software systems can creates…...

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Riodran 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. Riordan Manufacturing's China plant is focused on the manufacturer of electric fans and related products. The Hangzhou facility was developed as a joint venture between Riordan and a Chinese partner who was brought on for their experience working in that particular region. The selection of the Hangzhou location was originally chosen because of the proximity to the Qiantang River which was able to meet the transportation requirements for the company. The original location was also well suited to source a variety of raw materials and material suppliers could easily transport these materials on Chinese waterways.

However, the management team has recently concluded that a new location in Shanghai would make the organization more competitive…...

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McDonough, E. (2000). Investigation of Factors Contributing to the Success of Cross-Functional Teams. The Journal of Product Innovation Management, 221-235.

Naor, M., Linderman, K., & Schroeder, R. (2010). The globalization of operations in Eastern and Western countries: Unpacking the relationship between national and organizational culture and its impact on manufacturing performance. Journal of Operations Management, 194-205.

iordan Manufacturing is a global plastics producer employing 550 people with projected annual earnings of over $46 million. The company can attribute much of its success to excellent customer service, high quality products and repeat business. Employees are a treasured commodity -- the work environment emphasizes cooperation, high moral character, and professional development.
iordan Manufacturing has established a series of business systems and subsystems to continually improve operations. Having an effective business system, with details housed within lower-level subsystems, is the only practical way to manage the important details of an operation (Mossholder, et al., 2011). Human resources and Legal are integral departments that contribute positively to the company's overall success.

iordan Manufacturing's Human esource department uses an Information System (HIS) that was implemented in 1992. It tracks essential H functions such as salaries, hire dates, seniority records, tax information, PTO records, performance evaluations and disciplinary records, and other confidential employee details.…...

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Mossholder, K.W., Richardson, H.A., & Settoon, R.P. (2011). Human Resource Systems and Helping in Organizations: A Relational Perspective. Academy of Management Review, 36(1), 33-52. doi:10.5465/AMR.2011.55662500.

Riordan Manufacturing Internet and Intranet Sites. Retrieved June 4, 2012, from /  https://ecampus.phoenix.edu/portalhttps:///

Riordan and Project Management
Overview- 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. Its products include plastic beverage containers produced at its plant in Albany, Georgia, custom plastic parts produced at its plant in Pontiac, Michigan, and plastic fan parts produced at its facilities in Hangzhou, China. The company's research and development is done at the corporate headquarters in San Jose. Riordan's major customers are automotive parts manufacturers, aircraft manufacturers, the Department of Defense, beverage makers and bottlers, and appliance manufacturers.

Project Implementation -- Prior to the implementation of any new project, it is important to have some level of consensus from key managers and stakeholders. Meeting with each key player begins an important dialog and ensures not only consensus building, but also buy-in…...

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Gifford, C. (2011). When World's Collide in Manufacturing Operations. Research Triangle Park, NC: International Society of Automation Press.

Kotler, P., Lee, N. (2005). Corporate Social Responsibility. New York: John Wiley.

Magrab, E., et al., (2009). Integrated Product and Process Design and Development. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.

Nokes, S., (2007). The Definitive Guide to Project Management. London: The Financial Times Press.

Riodan Manufactuing has faced a numbe of opeational issues that have foced the hand of the company to make dastic changes to the methodology it uses to opeate. Attition ates in the IT depatment have inceased and with a numbe of majo evenue diving pojects on the hoizon, the looming theat of losing additional employees, notably in R&D is unsettling to say the least.
With pofits falling, Riodan CEO is unwilling to make majo capital expenditues as he feels the poblem is not with the compensation stuctue o with the lack of upwad mobility. The idea of capital consevation is moe appealing although the thought of losing the company's most pized employees does woy the chief executive.

Situation Analysis

Issue and Oppotunity Identification

Riodan Manufactuing has dealt with a vaiety of issues that affect its ability to opeate as a fluid and effective oganization with efficiency. The events behind each calamity ae a function…...

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Riordan Manufacturing Virtual Organization
"Riordan Manufacturing is a global plastics manufacturer employing 550 people ith estimated $46 Million in sales per year" ("Financial Forecasting Paper Riordan Manufacturing," Docshare: Social Document Sharing, 2011).

Riordan Manufacturing Virtual Organizations is an authentic company; namely, an international plastics manufacturing company. Riordan Manufacturing Virtual organization eb-based businesses, schools, healthcare, and government organizations that promote authentic assessment by immersing students into problem-based learning environments. All Riodan Manufacturing Virtual organization students are required to have access to a ork setting relevant to their studies, yet some students are challenged to rite papers and anser questions ith information that they cannot readily access, or that hich is proprietary.

For instance, many adult students pursue an education to offer career opportunities in a ne industry, but they may not have access to the ne industry during their studies. Virtual Organizations provide one solution to this problem by giving students and faculty access…...

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iordan Manufacturing, Inc. Service equest S-m-022
iordan Manufacturing has submitted an S-rm-022 service request for the analysis of the current H system with the goal of the integration of the current tools into an integrated application for corporate wide use. The new H system for iordan Manufacturing Systems will implement the development life cycle process (SDLC). The project has a completion date for approximately six months from initiation with system utilization beginning in the second quarter for the following year. The detailed project plan will list resources, schedule, tasks, and budget required to complete the project. The following document provides a proposal to fulfill iordan's request covering information gathering techniques, successful information gathering techniques, project scope, feasibility, application architecture and process design, software architecture, security controls, and a conclusion.

Software Architecture Though the design phase of the SLCD typically involves the design of the human-interface and database. The new HIS should consolidate…...

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1. Apollo Group, Inc. (2011). Riordan Manufacturing - Human Resources. Retrieved from: BSA/375: -- Fundamentals of Business Systems Development course website. 2. Dennis, A., Wixom, B.H., and Roth, R.M. (2012). Systems Analysis and Design (5th ed.). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons. 3. Valacich, J.S., George, J.F., and Hoffer, J.A. (2012). Essentials of Systems Analysis and Design (5th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education

iordan Manufacturing: Internal and External Compensation
iordan Manufacturing: External and Internal Equity Compensation

iordan Manufacturers, being a leader in its industry, appreciates the need to meet the needs of its employees through a fair compensation policy - one that equates pay with the value of the task performed, because fair treatment boosts employee performance and morale, and is an effective employee retention technique (omanoff, Boehm & Benson, n.d.). Internal equity compensation describes an employee's compensation in relation to that of other employees at the same level within iordan Manufacturing (H Council, 2014). External equity, on the other hand, compares iordan Manufacturing's wages with those of organizations within the industry.

Employee compensation is fundamental to iordan Manufacturing, just as is stipulated in the company's compensation philosophy. iordan realizes the intensity of global competition and understands that in order to maintain its industry position and market share, it has to acquire the best in terms…...

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HR Council. (2014). Compensation and Benefits. HR Council. Retrieved 2 May 2014 from http://hrcouncil.ca/hr-toolkit/compensation-systems.cfm

Romanoff, K., Boehm, K., & Benson, E. (n.d.). Pay Equity: Internal and External Considerations. Pay Equity Article. Retrieved  http://theperfectpayplan.typepad.com/Pay_Equity_Article.pdf

iordan Manufacturing Human esources Information Systems
The iordan Manufacturing is an organization that produces the plastic injection molding, and the management decides to take an advantage of the state of art technology to combine a variety of tools into a single application to develop the HIS (human resources information systems). However, the organization needs to develop application architecture, process design, and system security for an effective implementation of the system. This document discusses the system design and system security for the iordan HIS.

iordan Process Design and Application Architecture

The paper will use the web-based application for the application development based on the benefits that H department will derive from the system. Availability is one of the benefits of the web application because it can be accessed through the internet by multiple users at the same time. The three-tier architecture will be used to design the web-based application, which includes a network server,…...

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Stalling, S. (2011). Cryptographic and Network Security Principle and Practice (Fifth Edition). Pearson Education, Inc.

Dennis, A., Wixom, B. H., & Ruth, R. M. (2012). Systems Analysis and Design. (5th Ed.). UK. Wiley.

End-State Vision

The primary goal for the management team at iordan Manufacturing is to solve the existent problem, and through the strategies developed and implemented, ensure that it does not occur again in the future. In other words, they desire to increase employees' on the job satisfaction and reduce as such the turnover rates, which materialize in increased costs. The future goals of the plastics manufacturing company could be best described with the aid of a realistic vision statement. This could be formulated as follows:

iordan Manufacturing is committed to maintaining its leading position onto the plastics industry by presenting their customers with high quality products, delivered by highly specialized and trained employees. The organization is also determined to make a difference in the environment by using the latest technological appliances which preserve the health of the surrounding environment. We are also proud of the healthy and pleasant environment we have created…...

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Internet site, Mission, Description iordan Manufacturing Virtual Organizations. Also incorporating mimimum: -existing sales marketing systems. -H systems.operations logistics iordan Manufacturing.
iordan Manufacturing

iordan Manufacturing is an important player in the plastics material industry. As subsidiary of the parent company iordan Manufacturing Industries, iordan Manufacturing employs an estimated 550 individuals. iordan Manufacturing generates an estimated $46 million in annual revenues, and the larger group, iordan Manufacturing Industries generates an estimated $1 billion in annual revenues, and is one of the Fortune 1000 enterprises.

iordan Manufacturing aims to attain and maintain a strong leadership position within the industry and would do so through the satisfaction of the customers' needs and wants. Emphasis in this endeavor would be placed on innovation and technologic development. This commitment is assumed by the company through their mission, as follows:

"The mission of iordan Manufacturing is to ensure that it remains an industry leader in the plastic manufacturing business and…...

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Ball, J., Beckwith, K., Buckley, E., Haniszewski, B., Riordan Manufacturing business systems analysis and recommendations, The University of Phoenix, last accessed on July 18, 2011http://www.kellybeckwith.com/Papers/BusinessAnalysis.doc

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iordan Compliance Plan
Compliance Plan for iordan Corporation

Compliance Plan for iordan Manufacturing

iordan Manufacturing is a plastic design and manufacturing enterprise that is based at San Jose, CA. It is classified amongst Fortune 100 enterprises with its $1 billion worth of capital base. The company has been on expansionary mission, which has led to other branches being opened at Albany, Pontiac, and Hangzhou in China. In addition, the amount of transactions carried out through e-commerce has almost doubled in a span of less than two years. As such, the management discovered the necessity to initiate an enterprise risk management (EM) program as part of the strategy to take care of the uncertainties; also assured stakeholders of the value in their investments. Consequently, the company's management reached a consensus to implement EM basing on the internationally acclimated guidelines offered by a Committee of Sponsoring Organization of the Treadway Commission (COSO).

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Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission. (2010). Coso. Retrieved from:  http://www.coso.org/ 

Steinberg, Richard. (2006). Using the New COSO Risk-Management Guidance. Compliance Week Columnist

University of Phoenix (2006). Virtual organization: Riordan Manufacturing. Retrieved from Business Law website

Steinberg, Richard. (2006). Using the New COSO Risk-Management Guidance. Compliance Week Columnist