In order to operate at an efficient level Riordan will need to add implement the use of databases, which will streamline their operations. With the company having 550 employees and earning $46 million a year Riordan is a successful Fortune 100 company. The company has three different plants they use to produce the plastic products. The plant located in Albany, Georgia is responsible for the manufacturing the plastic beverage bottles for various vendors. Its plant in Pontiac, Michigan develops custom plastic parts and the plant in Hangzhou, China makes the plastic parts for sports fan across the world. Riordan headquarters is in San Jose. Riordan’s main clients are car part fabricators, aircraft fabricators, the DoD, beverage and bottle manufacturers, and appliance companies. As you can see, the company is spread out in various locations within the United States and overseas. As of now, Riordan has a finance and accounting system in place for each of their four locations. Each company uses a different system. The system that San Jose uses is a Windows based product however is does not include the source code. The Pontiac manufacture purchased a database from an independent company however; the company is no longer in business. Albany also purchased a database from an independent vendor, the systems run on a pair of AS400's, using UNIX operating system, use PC's (Windows) as workstations, and is programmed in RPG400 (University of Phoenix Virtual Organization, 2013). The finance and accounting department has been searching for a single company that will build one database for all its different companies to use but has yet to find one. With Riordan having 20 main customers that they deal with for its DoD and fan contracts, a database was put in place to maintain and log information. Just like the finance and accounting system, everyone has their own database that they use at their individual plants. Some sub departments even use pens and pads to track their numbers. To ensure the company is providing the best products for its customers, the company is beginning the process to introduce a combined system that will bring the company into the electronic age. The HR Department also has an out of age system, which was installed in 1992. This system records the demographics of the employees, salary, the date they were hired, the organizational structure, and calculates time-off for employees. If one wanted to make a change, the employees manager will hand write the change and pass it along to the workforce administrator whom will make the claim. Another out dated process the company uses is the way the resumes are kept. The resumes are simply filed away in alphabetical order with a disposition date of one year after the date it was received. HR also tracks issues such as harassments and gripes which is stored in file cabinet in their office. To bring the company’s business systems up to speed with the 21st Century, Riordan hired a reputable database building company to combine all its different and individual systems to one mega system that will maintain all the company’s business. Being as though the four separate companies have a different products and personal the database company will implement different security measures that will appear as though each sub company has its own individual database when in all actuality it just one big database. In addition, all paper files will be scanned, converted to PDF files for easy storage, and easy to retrieve.

Reference
University of Phoenix Virtual Organization. (2013, Spring). Riordan Manufacturing. Retrieved from https://ecampus.phoenix.edu/secure/aapd/cist/vop/Business/Riordan/index.asp