...Riordan HR system Philip Soluri BSA/375 February 24, 2014 Eric Secrist Riordan HR system Riordan Manufacturing is a Fortune 1000 plastics manufacturing company employing approximately 550 people in several locations. Riordan manufacturing was founded in 1991 by Dr. Michael Riordan in San Jose, California but since has acquired multiple other entities and continued to expand. Chief Operations Officer Hugh McCauley has requested unification of the human resources department with a single cutting edge integrated software system for the entire department company-wide. Riordan’s current HR system has been in place since 1992, and with both the expansion of the company and passage of time, the current system has become outdated and inefficient. Since the original system was put in place to integrate the San Jose office and the office in Pontiac, Michigan the company has added two more entities to the business. Riordan now has offices in Albany, Georgia and a manufacturing plant in China. As with most of their systems, the HR system is currently functioning as several different systems operating independently of one another. This creates issues with format and conversion of documents and information between offices, unnecessarily cutting down on employee productivity. The first step in the process of updating and integrating Riordan Manufacturing’s human resources department will begin with gathering of information. During this process there will be several techniques used...
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...Riordan Manufacturing HR System January 3, 2012 Riordan Manufacturing is a company that produces plastic items. It has several locations and every location serves a different purpose. The corporate location is located in San Jose which is also where research and development is done. Currently Riordan’s HR department has a variety of HR tools which need to be integrated into one application. This project will be done using the SDLC for success. Stakeholder Requirements The requirements for the integrated HR system will come from various people. The head stake holder would be COO Hugh McCauley. He is the requester of the service and has final say to go ahead with the project. Since Riordan has multiple locations with multiple HR offices it is important to keep in mind the users in all offices. For requirements it would be best to consult the director of HR and users under her. Yvonne McMillan is the director of human resources and is the person of interest for user requirements. The analysis team will need to speak with users under Yvonne such as the Employee Relations Manager, Compensation & Benefits Manager, Payroll Manager, Employee Relations Specialist, Compensation Analyst, Benefits Manager, Payroll/Tax Clerk, Recruiters, Training and Development team, Safety Manager and Safety Techs. These users are vital to understand how the HR system works for them day to day. Requirements from this list of users can be used to determine how the new integrated system will...
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...history of Riordan Manufacturing, Inc. and go into Riordan Manufacturing’s service request from their COO, Hugh McCauley and his request for a more sophisticated, state-of-the art, information systems technology within their Human Resources department which will encompass all plant locations. A detailed project timeline will be drafted to encompass the service request and detail out the project approach and specifics of meeting its requirements. Company Riordan Manufacturing, Inc. was founded by Dr. Riordan, a professor of chemistry, who had obtained several patents relative to processing polymers into high tensile strength plastic substrates. Originally is started in 1991 as Riordan Plastics, Inc because of the commercial applications of Dr. Riordan patents. The company's focus on research and development and licensing of its existing patents led to a venture capital in 1992 to purchase a fan manufacturing plant in Pontiac, MI. That was when the name was changed to "Riordan Manufacturing, Inc." In 1993, another manufacturing plant in Albany, GA was acquired to produce plastic beverage containers. And in 2000, Riordan opened a new manufacturing facility in China. Their entire fan manufacturing operation moved from Michigan to China to leave the Pontiac, Michigan facility to retool for the manufacturing of custom plastic parts. Request and Scope On November 28, 2011, Hugh McCauley, COO, of Riordan Manufacturing wanted to meet to discuss and analyze Riordan’s HR system...
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...Riordan Manufacturing specializes in plastics manufacturing with operations in both China and the United States of America. They employ over 550 employees in there operating locations and the tracking of the employee’s information is currently conducted in an inefficient manner in multiple databases and systems. If Riordan wants to stay within reach of its competitors, it is important to perform an overhaul on the current processes to make them more efficient. Using current, cutting edge technology, the plastics manufacturing company would like to create a single system that envelops all employee information and helps the Human Resources Department become streamlined. Implementing the technology available in the market today, Riordan will be able to consolidate the information currently in multiple applications, into a single, efficient application. Utilizing the System Development Life Cycle model, the existing HR system can be analyzed and a project plan created to modernize the system. One of the benefits of using the SDLC is that it provides a structured and organized path to any kind of system development. Analysts that use this method are able to thoroughly cover all the phases of system development. The five phases are project planning, analysis, design, implementation, and support. The first phase in the cycle is project planning and in this step, defining the scope, and feasibility of the project occur. After this initial stage, the others will follow and occur in...
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...RIORDAN MANUFACTURING HR SYSTEM ANALYSIS BSA/375 UNIVERSITY OF PHOENIX ONLINE INTRODUCTION Originating in 1992 Riordan manufacturing is a worldwide leader in manufactured plastics. Founded by Dr. Riordan, a chemistry teacher, they currently operate out of four facilities: Hangzhou, Pontiac, Albany, and San Jose. They are a fortune 1000 Enterprise whose revenue exceeds 1 Billion dollars. Their major clients include: The Department Of Defense, automotive parts manufacturers, aircraft manufacturers, and appliance manufacturers to name a few. The system we will be analyzing is their first Human Resources Information System (HRIS), which was implemented in 1992. It is integrated into the company's financial system, use for keeping record of employee's data. That data includes: - Personal Information - Hire date - Pay Rate - Vacation Hours - Tax information - Date of Seniority - Organizational Information They plan on updating the current system with a newer, more efficient HR system. The HR integration project has already been approved, and they are awaiting a detailed project plan. this plan is to include the following: budget, tasks, resources, and schedule. There has been a six month deadline set in place for project completion. This will allow the company to begin using the new system, no later than the second quarter of the year. KEY STAKEHOLDERS In gathering information for the project, the following stakeholders have been identified as excellent...
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...| | BSA375 Service Request SR-rm-004 Part 1 Analyze Riordan Manufacturing HR System Introduction Riordan Manufacturing is a global leader in plastics manufacturing market. The company has facilities in Albany, Georgia, Pontiac, Michigan, Hangzhou, China and San José, California. Riordan’s projected annual earnings are approximately $46 billion. The company began operations in 1992 with the company’s first functional Human Resources Information System. The current system is part of the financial systems package that tracks employee information. Recent analysis of the current HRIS has provided evidence indicating the system needs upgrading in order meet Riordan’s developing needs. To remain viable Riordan plans to update the current HRIS system with a more sophisticated HR system. The use of modern technology will be used to incorporate a variety of tools into a single integrated application. Plan The intent of this report will focus on Riordan’s current HRIS problems by developing a strategic plan for implementing a more advanced system. “The primary objective of the analysis phase is to understand and document the business needs and the processing requirements of the new system.” (Satzinger, J.W., Jackson, R.B., Burd, S.T., & Johnson, R., para. 26, 2004). Adjustments to Riordan’s HRIS will incorporate changes to the current financial...
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...Riordan Human Resources Service Request BSA/375 9/23/2013 Chief Operating Officer Hugh McCauley has submitted a service request to acquire software that unifies the operations of Human Resources. Currently implemented is an HRIS which is disjointed, using multiple formats and platforms that are stored locally and not in a centralized database. This organizational structure causes delays in data processing, report generation, information acquisition, and decision making. The organizational chaos immediately creates issues and unnecessary work load on the Human Resources staff and their superiors they report to, such as the Hugh McCauley. The first task in defining software feature requirements is speaking with the Human Resource department, payroll, accounting, legal, and upper level management. Each of these roles requires specific forms of information generated by the Human Resources department. The software performs functions based on processes, which are created from specific information needs. Creating software that makes the client (Riordan Manufacturing) happy means understanding their business processes & how this information needs to interact between each role within the company. A report generated by payroll that passes through human resources, then to the chief operating officer may go through several modifications as data is processed, added, and removed. The methods used to gather specific requirements for software processes include personal interviews...
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...Service Request SR-rm-022 - Part 1 Antonio Walden BSA/375 December 8, 2014 Bill Schuyler Service Request SR-rm-022 - Part 1 This paper will identify key stakeholders in Riordan Manufacturing who can provide requirements for the service request, and describe information gathering techniques and system analysis tools that can be used for the project. It will also identify key factors that assist in tracking necessary information for the project, the scope of the project, and the areas of project feasibility that will be focused on. Key Stakeholders There are many stakeholders of this project at Riordan Manufacturing. These stakeholders include the requester of service and COO Hugh McCauley, CEO Michael Riordan, Executive Assistant Jan McCall, HR department employees, and IT service managers. Stakeholders would also include any end users of the HR tools and applications involved in this project. Any supporters and opponents of the project should also be identified. Information Gathering The identification of the system requirements involves eliciting information from stakeholders (Mochal, 2008). There are multiple information gathering techniques to use to gain a complete view of the requirements from different perspectives. These are not procedural, can occur in any order and revisited multiple times to obtain a clear picture of system requirements. 1. One-on-One interviews: This is a method where the analyst will sit down with stakeholders on a one-on-one basis...
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...Section 1 Riordan HR Integration Project University of Phoenix FUNDAMENTALS OF BUSINESS SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT BSA/375 JOHN DUNN July 24, 2011 Riordan HR Integration Project Riordan Manufacturing has submitted a service (SR-rm-004) request for the analysis of the current HR system with the goal of the integration of the currently existing variety of tools into a single integrated application for corporate wide use. The Systems development life cycle process, also known as SDLC will be used to design a new HR system for Riordan Manufacturing. This report will focus primarily on the analysis, design, and implementation phases of SDLC. The HR Integration Product Manager has solicited and received approval for the project from Hugh McCauley, COO (Riordan Manufacturing, 2008). Section 1 of this report will detail the scope and feasibility of this project. Additionally, Section 1 will describe the information-gathering techniques and design methods for Riordan Manufacturing service request SR-rm-004. Analysis of the HR system will be discussed, followed by identifying key factors, which will help ensure that the information required for the project is gathered successfully, and give an explanation of the scope and feasibility of the project. Section 2 will describe the application architecture and process design. In Addition, section 2 will illustrate how the tools of systems analyses are used to describe the information system’s architecture in terms of data, processes, interfaces...
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...2) The book starts off with a trouble maker in high school, Percy Jackson. This young man soon realizes that his life is about to flip upside down really quick as soon as he finds out that he is the son of a Greek god, Poseidon. His mom tells him that the city is no place for him anymore and he is now going to go to a training camp for young decedents of the gods. Percy learns how to use his powers and then he decides to set out on an adventure to rescue his mom who had recently been taken by a bad creature. He must stop a big war that is about to take place because of Zeus’ master bolt which was stolen by one of Percy’s friends, while at the same time rescuing his mother from the underworld. He then sets out on his adventure and discovers that the bolt was in his friends shield and he took off from the underworld and went to Olympus and gave Zeus his bolt back. Happily, ever after. 3) The significance of this title is the story it portrays for the book. The title alone implies that someone has stolen lightning which is what the author wants you to think because it seems un-human like to steal lightning so it gets you thinking. As the book says “Zeus sent out his sons and daughters to find the stolen lightning bolt” (P.357). This tells you that there was someone who had stolen the bolt from Zeus and this proves that the title of the book foreshadowed this by leading us to believe that there had been someone who has stolen the lightning. 4) The setting of this book was set...
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...In the stories Percy Jackson The Lightning Thief and “The legend of Perseus”, the Legend of Perseus is modernized in Percy Jackson The Lightning Thief by changing the events, Hero Archetypes, and themes. Have you ever wonder how Roman stories are like today and how they are made modern to meet your expectations? Events are one of the main thing modernized from ¨The legend of Perseus¨ to Percy Jackson the Lightning Thief. The events are modernized through the Hero’s Journey because in “The legend of Perseus” Perseus never meet the mentor and instead journeyed on his own “Perseus bid his mother good-by and set out to search for Medusa” (D'aulaires,117) unlike Percy Jackson who had several mentors Grover, Poseidon, and Chiron (Percy Jackson The Lightning Thief). Next, the events are modernized from the Hero’s journey once again. In “The legend of Perseus” since Perseus never really refused his call to adventure since he was somewhat forced into it as a child when Acrisius tried put him and his mom in a chest and threw them into the sea to blame on Poseidon. “He put Danae and her son, Perseus, in a chest and threw it into the sea”(D'aulaires, 115). Percy on the other hand, had refused to leave his mother and go to camp half blood but he Crossed the Threshold (Percy Jackson the Lightning Thief). Lastly, the events are modernized through plot structure. When Perseus in the “Legend of Perseus” went out to slay Medusa not only was he well aware he was going to kill Medusa but once...
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...Percy Jackson has been diagnosed with ADHD, or attention, deficit, hyperactivity disorder.The three main traits to ADHD are Inattention, hyperactivity, and Impulsivity. Some people have ideas that Percy does not have ADHD, but other think he does. Some reasons Percy has ADHD is that he blurts things out, he can not find a activity that he likes, and he always lots of energy. The first reason Percy Jackson has ADHD is that he blurts things out at the wrong moments. In Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief it says, “No, no,” Mr. Brunner said. Oh confound it all. What I am trying to say . . . You’re not normal, Percy. That nothing to be-- “Thanks,” I blurted. “Thanks a lot sir, for reminding me.” So that is one of the symptoms that Percy has...
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...Riordan HR Request Service Request SR-rm-022 Janet Chase BSA 375 February 11, 2013 Karen Knox Riordan Manufacturing Service Request SR-rm-022 Hugh McCauley, Riordan’s Chief Operating Officer, submitted Service Request SR-rm-022. In his request, he specifies a need to centralize the company’s human resources functions. With the “more sophisticated, state-of-the art, information systems” (Apollo Group, 2013, p. 1), Riordan desires an integration of all human resources tools into one platform. Completion date is set for six months allowing the new system to be in place by the beginning of the second quarter. The scope of this project will follow the System Classic Life Cycle (SCLC) Model. This model allows Riordan to complete this project in stages with the results of one stage aiding the completion of the next stage. High-level Scope: Deliverables (Mochal, 2007) The outcome of this project will integrate the human resources systems into one application. An analysis of this system will define the business requirements for the new system. Based on that definition a team will create a detailed system design and a project implementation plan to be put in place. High-level Scope: Boundaries This project will affect the human resources department of all Riordan plant locations. All other departments are out of scope. Low-level Scope: Process In an effort to fulfill the request in the short amount of time given, an analysis of the current system and needs for the...
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...2 meters. Now it is the third tallest building in the USA ("U.S.A.'s tallest buildings - Top 20"). The reason for its initial creation a competition of "who could build the highest building first" ("The History of the Empire State Building"). However, in this day and age, it has morphed into one of the most popular places for touristic trips and also for the movies. Because of the Empire State Building's unique aspects, lots of movies are filmed there, such as: "Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief" and "An Affair to Remember". All of the directors used this building to create different effects on the audience. "Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief" is a film which is based on the famous book of Rick Riordan. Logan Lerman, Rosario Dawson, Pierce Brosnan, Uma Thurman and Catherine Keener enliven the wonderful characters of this book. The film is about a young boy called Percy who grew up without a father and has bizarre features. As the movie continues he learns that his father is actually a Greek god, Poseidon, and his difference, which seems as an illness in real life, comes from his father’s inhuman genes. Moreover, Zeus, who was also a Greek god, thinks that Percy stole his lightning bolt, despite the fact that Percy had just learned about them (Abramowitz). So what is the relationship between this fantastic movie and the Empire State Building, which we can encounter in our real lives? The Empire State Building was used as the famous Mount...
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...I choose The Mark of Athena because I love this author and was already reading this series. Rick Riordan wrote the Percy Jackson series and those were my favorite books, so I wanted to continue reading books like those. My first impressions were that it started it off slow but progressed quickly. The book was very exciting. The cover of the book was very interesting and wanted to make me read it because it shows two of the main characters that are allies fighting. In the second book The Son of Neptune , Percy, Hazel, and Frank met in Camp Jupiter, the Roman equivalent of Camp Halfblood, and traveled to the land beyond the gods to complete a dangerous quest. The third book, The Mark of Athena, will unite them with Jason, Piper, and Leo. The Greek and Roman demigods will have to cooperate in order to defeat the giants released by the Earth Mother, Gaea. Then they will have to sail together to the ancient land to find the Doors of Death. Much of the prophecy remains a mystery.They will have to work as a team if they want to accomplish this quest. With old friends and new friends joining forces, a marvelous ship, fearsome foes, and an exotic setting,...
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