Cis/205

Cis/205

Learning Team Summary

Team C

                                  CIS/205

September 11, 2011
Lars Vesterberg

Team Paper

Riordan Manufacturing is a company that is an industry leader in the field of plastic injection molding. The company has three operating facilities that are located in Georgia, Michigan, and California.   In the year 2000 they started a joint venture in the People’s Republic of China.   The company was founded in 1991 in California and expanded in 1992 and 1993 to Michigan and Georgia.   The corporate headquarters are in San Jose, California and this is where the company’s research and development is done.
When the company expanded it’s operations to Michigan and Georgia the area that was not addressed and that creates some issues between the three entities is the Finance & Accounting System’s compatibility.   The three entities are each running a different system with the San Jose office the only one that has a license for a fully integrated Windows based ERP.   Because each one is running a different system this causes compatibility issues between the three entities.   Some of the F & A data that is provided to corporate needs to be converted to the proper account codes.   Because of these compatibility issues this can cause a delay in completing the monthly reports in a timely manner.   This situation is also making it’s way to customers and suppliers as each entity has maintained it’s own invoicing and payments prior to acquisition.   Riordan Manufacturing finds it’s current situation unacceptable and has mandated a solution to its current situation to be recommended soonest.
This is the area our team has identified to be improved.   We will work to get all three entities on the same system and streamline the way data is provided to corporate.   We feel by doing this it will help save time in completing the monthly reports.   We will be involving stakeholders from all three entities to be working on this project.