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Riordan Manufacturing Information Systems
Running head: RIORDAN MANUFACTURING INFORMATION SYSTEMS Riordan Manufacturing Information Systems Place Name here University of Phoenix Riordan Manufacturing Information Systems To maintain and exceed Riordan Manufacturing's elite status in its trademark business the Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Michael Riordan, has put into action the request for review and analysis of all company's sites ( San Jose, California, Albany, Georgia, Pontiac, Michigan, and Hangzhou, China) existing business systems and sub-subsystems. This includes software used in the
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Riordan Manufacturing Problem Solution
Running head: PROBLEM SOLUTION: RIORDAN MANUFACTURING Problem Solution: Riordan Manufacturing Problem Solution: Riordan Manufacturing Riordan Manufacturing is a global plastics producer that employs 550 people with projected annual earnings of $46 million. Due to declining sales in the past couple of years, Riordan has changed the sales process by creating a customer relationship management system (CRM) where the customer, classified by segment, is serviced by a team. The team includes a product engineer, sales agent,
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Riordan Manufacturing Production Plan
Riordan Manufacturing is a successful global plastics company with annual profits of $46 million. Riordan is a recognized leader in the field of plastic injection molding, and manufactures such products as heart valves, bottles, medical stents, electric fans, and custom plastic parts. Riordan has locations in Georgia, Michigan, California, and joint ventures in China. It also employs approximately 550 individuals across its United States and China operations. In order for Riordan Manufacturing to remain successful
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Riordan Manufacturing Revenue Cycle
Riordan Manufacturing Revenue Cycle Accounting information systems provide the tools to operate and maintain important data related to an organization and interpret the information to develop quality financial reports. The revenue cycle of Riordan Manufacturing reflects sales and the components associated with sales such as inventory, freight, cost of goods sold and accounts receivable, yet this information is not readily available to each facility. Because the forecast for the company is positive and production and
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Riordan Manufacturing Situation Analysis
Situation Analysis Issue and Opportunity Identification Riordan Manufacturing is a global plastics producer 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. Recently, Riordan made several strategic changes in the way it manufactures and markets its products. Because of declining sales and uneven profits over the past two years, Riordan adopted a customer-relationship management
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Riordan Manufacturing Staffing Strategies Paper
Introduction Founded in 1991, Riordan Manufacturing, Inc. is an industry leader in the field of plastic injection molding. With a current total workforce around three hundred employees and a turnover rate that increased from 3.7% in 2002 to 8.8% in 2004, it is obvious that Riordan’s three recruiting team members are very busy. This paper will evaluate the staffing strategies currently used by Riordan’s recruiters for efficiency and legal compliance. In addition, the paper will
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Riordan Manufacturing Upgrade
Riordan Manufacturing is a privately held company with plant operations in Albany, Georgia; Pontiac, Michigan; Hangzhou, China. The Corporate Headquarters are located in San Jose, California. Riordan Manufacturing is a subsidiary of Riordan Industries. The Chief Operating Officer (COO) is Hugh McCauley and the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) is Dale Edgel. The Company employs a work force of 550 people throughout the four locations. Corporate Headquarters in San Jose, California has recognized a growing
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Riordan Manufacturing: Benchmarking Research
BENCHMARKING APPROACH ISSUE DESCRIPTION: The Riordan sales staff is having trouble retaining top performers with their current compensation and rewards system. Morale and work ethic are on the decline. Alternative Solution: Enhance employee retention by upgrading the way employees are compensated and rewarded. Company Benchmarked: Sonic Drive-Ins The Chief Financial Officer Dale Edgel is concerned that in the past 12 months Riordan’s turnover rates have increased. There is normal level of turnover that a company
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Riordan Manufacturing: Policies and Procedures
Riordan Manufacturing: Policies and Procedures A big part of the management profession is creating and enforcing policies and procedures. At the present time, Riordan Manufacturing has nine policies and procedures and of the nine only six will be modified. They are compensation philosophy, employee and labor relations, training and development, employee recognition programs, key jobs, and last recruitment and selection practices. In this paper, the group will explain the purpose of each policies and procedures
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Riordan Problem Solution
The purpose of this paper is to evaluate Riordan Manufacturing’s current situation and identify the changes that the company will need to implement in order to align its compensation and rewards systems to the new corporate sales strategy. As Riordan focuses on the transformation, some changes are clearly needed in order to get the company ready to face the challenges and opportunities presented by this new approach. These changes will be key factors in ensuring
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Riordan Problem Solution
Issue and Opportunity Identification Several employees have recently complained that they are underpaid and have expressed the need to have their salaries revised. In fact, some employees, especially within the IT department, have been approached by recruiting firms which seem to be offering much more competitive salaries. As for the R&D department, there is also a strong concern that they might loose several key product engineers to other companies that also offer much more competitive
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Riordan Problem Solution - Comprehensive Motivation and Rewards Strategy
Riordan Problem Solution Comprehensive Motivation and Rewards Strategy The Company Riordan Manufacturing, Inc. is an industry leader in the field of plastic injection molding. The company employs 550 people and has projected earnings of $46 million annually, with facilities in San Jose, California; Albany, Georgia; Pontiac, Michigan; and Hangzhou, China. Riordan’s major customers are automotive parts manufacturers, aircraft manufacturers, the Department of Defense, beverage makers and bottlers, and appliance manufacturers. (Riordan Mfg. Intranet, 2004)
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Riordan Review
Virtual Organizations In the past, college graduates would embark on careers in the business world with book learned business theory. Now the college curriculum can include practical use of real world situations in a web-paged virtual organization. This virtual organization allows students experience to review, analyze, troubleshoot and resolve real business problems. This paper will review the virtual company, Riordan Manufacturing, allowing students to review existing business systems, identify improvements or introduce new business systems
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Rip Curl Usa
Mike Martin’s office is better than yours. From the new Rip Curl showroom just above Jack’s Surfboards in Huntington Beach, California, Rip Curl USA’s national sales manager can just glance to his right to check out the north- and south-pier lineups. Outside, chairs and tables adorn a huge patio that has even a broader vista. The 1,300-square-foot showroom opened in June and is decked out with custom fixtures and lighting, the newest marketing support materials,
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Rise of China and Case Study of Veolia and Colgate-Palmolive
Contents 1.0 Section One1 2.0 Section Two - 2.1 Introduction - 2.2 Veolia - 2.3 Colgate-Palmolive 3.0 Bibliography Appendices, A 1.0 Section One China is emerging as a growing economy, which is becoming more attractive for foreign investors and in particular, large multi national companies. It is seen as the fastest developing country, and is emerging as the new superpower. There are many factors that have led to China becoming a more appealing country for
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Rising Food Prices
Rising food prices Introduction: Food prices have been on the rise and have become a global issue. Prices have soared over the past year and a half and threaten to go up further if issues are not addressed immediately. Below is a look at how prices have been over the past year. Figure 1. FAO Food Price Index: February 2007 - January 2008 Source FAO, 2008 In this project, we attempt to find out the
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Rising Gas Prices
Rising gas prices; This is a subject we all know something about these days. How does this effect the avrege house hold? This is the question that this paper will atempt to address. In order to do so I came up with a formula to show how the price has changed in comperison to the change in household income over the same peroid. First I take the arverge income each year over the last twenty
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Risk & Safety Management
MISSION MAXIMUM SAFETY AT MINIMAL RISK TO ACHIEVE BEST PRACTICE IN OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY BY INSTILLING A SAFETY CULTURE DEDICATED TO THE PREVENTION OF INJURY OR HARM TO EMPLOYEES, CONTRACTORS AND THE COMMUNITY BY PROVIDING A SAFE AND HEALTHY WORKING ENVIRONMENT. BORING PTY LTD HEALTH & SAFETY POLICY Boring Pty Ltd is committed to a strong safety program that protects its staff, its property and the public from accidents. There is no task that
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Risk Analysis on Decision Making
Introduction Silicon Arts Inc. (SAI) is a company with plenty of growth potential. SAI has been in business four years manufacturing Integrated Circuits (IC’s) for digital imaging products like digital cameras, medical and scientific instrumentation, DVD players and computers. In 2001, SAI experienced a 40 % decrease in revenues due to a slowdown within the industry. Hal Eichner, Chairman, trying to maintain the competitive edge within the industry has two objectives for the company. He
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Risk Analysis on Investment
Risk Analysis on Investment In the capital budgeting simulation, Silicon Arts Incorporated (SAI), a digital imaging company has an agenda to increase market share and keep pace with today’s technology. In an effort to meet the agenda, SAI has proposed two alternatives. This first option is to expand the existing digital imaging market share, and the second option is to enter a wireless communication market. After reviewing the cash flow projections, opportunity costs, NPV,
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Risk Analysis on Investment Decision
Risk Analysis on Investment Decision Silicon Arts (SA) manufactures digital imaging circuits (ICs) that are used in a variety of products from DVD players to medical instruments. But as technology continues to change the company is faced with making decisions that will allow them to remain in business. As with many companies in today’s business world SA’s goals are to increase market share and keep up with the changing wants and needs of consumers. They
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Risk Analysis on Investment Decision
Risk Analysis on Investment Decision Silicon Arts, INC. (SAI) is a four year old company that manufactures digital imaging integrated Circuits (IC’s) that are used in digital cameras, DVD players, computers, and medical and scientific instruments. Hal Eichner, SAI’s Chairman, has a two-point agenda for the company to increase market share and keep pace with technology. As the Financial Analyst for the company one must analyze two mutually exclusive capital investment proposals. The two options
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Risk Analysis on Investment Decision
Risk Analysis on Investment Decision Silicon Arts is manufacturing company that is four years old. “It manufactures digital imaging Integrated Circuits (ICs) that are used in digital cameras, DVD players, computers, and medical and scientific instrumentation.” (Capital Budgeting Simulation, 2007) Silicon Arts is looking to expand its business and has proposals that need to be examined. The two proposals are from Dig-image and W-Comm. Each company offers its own strengths and weaknesses. In this analysis,
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Risk Analysis on Investment Decision
Risk Analysis on Investment Decision In the Capital budgeting simulation conducted for Silicon Arts Inc. my job as a the Financial Analyst is to analyze the two proposals and come to a decision that meets the goals of the company to increase its market share and to keep pace with technology. In order for Silicon Arts Inc to achieve this we need to decide on either increasing their market shares in the Digital Imaging market
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Risk Analysis on Investment Decision
Running head: PROBLEM SOLUTION: INTERSECT INVESTMENTS Problem Solution: Intersect Investments University of Phoenix Problem Solution: Intersect Investments This paper details how Intersect Investments studied itself to find opportunities for improvement and change. It created a compelling end-state vision that used to formulate goals and solutions. After using generic benchmarking to devise several Tier One solutions, Intersect combined them to make three Tier Two solutions. It compared each solution to the goals and analyzed the risks
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Risk Analysis on Investment Decision
Problem Solution: Lester Electronics Inc. Lester Electronics, Inc. is a financial service investment company. Currently, the company is facing several situations that offer problems as well as opportunities that need to be evaluated. There are different ways to approach defining the problems facing an organization; the focus needs to be on defining the problem correctly. Lester Electronics, Inc. should look at their situation and options regarding the takeover by Avral Electronics, S.A., Shang-Wa and the
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Risk Analysis on Investment Decision
Risk Analysis on Investment Decision Silicon Arts Incorporated (SAI) is a four-year-old company that manufactures digital imaging integrated Circuits (ICs). "SAI plans to pursue its growth plans and currently has 2 options: 1) expand their existing Digital Imaging market share or 2) enter into the Wireless Communication market" (UOP Simulation, 2008). Both alternatives have areas of opportunity as well as potential risks that the company will have to consider. Net present value, internal rate of
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Risk Analysis on Investment Decision
Risk Analysis on Investment Decision Silicon Arts, Inc. is a successful semiconductor manufacturer that focuses on digital imaging Integrated Circuits (ICs) for many different consumer and high precision electronics. From digital cameras to medical instrumentation, Silicon Art’s products can be found as the heart of these electronics. Given the current sales turnover of $180 million, the company is poised for growth with available free cash flow and fresh investment dollars to fund new opportunities. In
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Risk Analysis on Investment Decision Sai
Capital Budgeting Simulation By: Letitia Hoch University of Phoenix Introduction Silicon Arts Inc, (SAI) is a 4 year old company that manufactures digital imaging integrated circuits (University of Phoenix, 2007). These circuits are used in digital cameras, DVD players, computers, and many instruments used in the medical and scientific world. SAI is a global company with North America accounting for 70% of their sales, Europe accounts for 20% of sales, and South East Asia accounts
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Risk Anaylsis
Operations/Products JJ’s Pizza is a new restaurant located in Broussard, LA. JJ’s serves their locally famous homestyle pizza in a new, but quaint atmosphere. This joint venture started with Jeff Penn and Judd Judeice in 2007 and the business opened to the public on October 1, 2007. JJ’s is a Limited Liability Corporation with two owner members, 5 managers, and over 60 part time employees. They are in the food service industry. Building JJ’s operation
Rating:Essay Length: 1,458 Words / 6 PagesSubmitted: March 5, 2010