Riordan Manufacturing offshore Projects – Outsourcing Plan
Riordan Manufacturing Offshore Projects
Greg Lubinksy
CIS Team Project Week II
August 10, 2012
Professor Sandra McKelvey
Abstract
Review Riordan Manufacturing on the Virtual Organization portal.
Prepare a list of all technology outsourcing projects that Riordan Manufacturing could potentially implement offshore.
Due Day 7 Week III.
Riordan Manufacturing Offshore Projects
Riordan is a manufacturing company producing high tinsel strength plastic, and is listed as afortune 1000 company. The founder and chief executive officer wants to open another plant outside china. The problem with this is cross culture boundries. In wanting to build another plant elsewhere opens the door to the prospect of outsourcing. The problem does he outsource locally or regionally? Solution to this problem is to outsource locally for managers with bilingual and multilingual abilities. That way the manager can go to the location where the new plant will be built and hire locals solving the problem of cross culture boundaries in linguistics. The next problem is to visit local laws involving building, employment and communications.
Once choice has to be made by the President of the Company. He has to decide wheter or not to hire contractors for the construction of the building, or a designer to design the building and handle the contractors for construction? If he decides to hire the contractors then these three companies are listed in the top ten contruction corporations:
1. Shanghai Construction Group
13,010.56
2. Shanghai Urban Construction (Group) Corp.
6,013.72
3. GuangSha Construction Group Co., Ltd.
5,996.47
For Electrical Contractors:
These were chosen for the top 20 Contractors:
Hunan Construction Engineering Group Corp.
4,099.77
Zhongtian Construction Group Co., Ltd.
3,871.36
Guangzhou Construction Engineering Corp. Ltd.
3,631.09
If the chief exec want a designer which is his best bet, then the designer can negotiate with the Chief Exec on how