Fundamental Aspect of

Effective Management

BSA310
April 21st, 2014
Jennifer Streker

Introduction

Riordan Manufacturing is a global plastics manufacturing system that has 550 people
employed with a projected annual earnings of about $46 million

The company itself is a Fortune 1000 enterprise with revenues in excess of $1

billion ("Riordan Manufacturing", n.d.)

Departments:
Finance
Human Resources,
Legal
Sales & Marketing
Each departments business system intersects with each other with having Finance
being their main hub of connection.

Network Diagram Fig 1

Network Diagram Fig 2

Finance

Facilities that were bought by the corporate headquarters in San Jose

(Michigan and Georgia)
Michigans system is currently composed of C programming language by a
vendor that the company has been dissolved and no longer in business.
Georgias system is currently composed of an AS/400 system through
RPG/400 and that vendor does not allow providing source code.
China facilitys is a joint venture and their system is not compatible with
their system.
Corporate headquarters in San Jose has a system but no source code was
provided
Best solution would be to start from ground up and build a web based
system that will allow easy access, accurate record keeping and the
maintenance would allow for growth

Finance & Accounting System Overview

Human Resources
Computerizing the
personnel systems
Training record storage in
a central online location
Recruiters information
and applicant files sorted
and consolidated
Preference for internal
processing of workers
compensation claims

Employee files to be kept,

shared and updated
between individual
managers and human
resources section.
Compensation information
should be administered by
a compensation manager
that reports to both Payroll
and human resources.

Human Resources System Overview

Legal

Legal
Dr. Riordan is the founder of Riordan Manufacturing . Litteral & Finkel Law
Firm represents Dr. Riordan and Riordan Manufacturing in any legal matters
that deals with the manufacturing or personal business of the corporation.
Lowell Bradford is the chief counsel who overseas all legal matters
pertaining to Riordan Manufacturing. All patents application any litigation or
tax forms licensing , or contracts or real estate matters referred to Litteral &
Finkel Law Firm but are supervised under the direction by Mr. Bradford.
Litteral & Finkel Law firm has a good reputation in dealing with contracts
and licensing and patent.

Sales & Marketing

The foundations of the

system
Vision
Mission
Values
Customer Requirements

The company is in process of

consolidating
customer information to allow a
better
turnaround time in their database
system.
They currently have too many
databases
spread out all over the companys
network,
not to mention they have paper files
and
microfiche records as well.

Sales & Marketing System Overview

Conclusion

Every section that has been discussed will give the company a greater
understanding of how it is currently being overseen which then in turn
allows a greater portion of its resources be used to advance the company
to a better tomorrow

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