Riordan Needs Analysis
Riordan Needs Analysis
Operations
CIS/568 – Information Systems Concepts
University of Phoenix
Riordan Needs Analysis
“Riordan Manufacturing is a global plastics manufacturer employing 550 people with
projected annual earnings of $46 million. The company is owned by Riordan Industries, a
Fortune 1000 enterprise with revenues in excess of $1 billion” (Riordan, 2012). The Operations
Department is in charge of the Pyramid Bottle Plan. The plan consist of the Blueprints of the
bottle, graphics/design, and capping of the bottle. “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” (Riordan, 2012).
The issue the Operations Department currently has is outdated procedures that need to be
improved. Most of the production is done manually, inventory management, and the shipping
process is slowing down warehouse and distribution. This cost Riordan time and money. More
warehouse employees are need for data entry in the system. The labor cost is up because of
the need for more employees to do redundant manual work, like old school warehouses. The use
of manpower is not effectively being used because of poor management. The reason being is the
managers have to deal with comparing shipping documents to schedule orders and logging
inventory received. The issue with the current procedures that is in place is slow operation,
the improper use of manpower, and damaged to the inventory as it is being processed.
The solution to Riordan Manufacturing issues is that they should they should put into place in automated system for inventory and manufacturing the products. On each product should be a bar code sticker. The Integrated Barcoding Systems could help the operations department scan the materials, so the information can be put into the inventory system more rapidly. The benefit to changing this system is the ability to track the inventory movement, decrease the cost of labor, accelerate manufacturing process, and lastly increase accuracy and efficiency.
Issues with the way Riordan currently