...Service Request Part 1 Robert Davis BSA375 March 14th 2014 Fred Bennett Service Request Part 1 Riordan Manufacturing is a global producer and manufacturer in the global plastics industries and has about 550 people that have a projected annual earning of over $46 million dollars. Riordan has a manufacturing plant located in Albany, GA that is capable of producing plastic beverage containers, another plant that is located in Pontiac MI that is capable of producing custom plastic parts, and another plant located in Hangzhou, China that produces plastic fan parts. The corporate offices and research and development department of Riordan are located in San Jose, California. Riordan Manufacturing is part of Riordan industries Inc. and this company is a fortune 1000 enterprise and it has revenues that exceed 1 billion dollars ("Riordan Manufacturing", 2013). The COO of Riordan manufacturing Mr. Hugh McCauley has given a Service Request SR-rm-022 to Smith Services Consulting Inc. Mr. Hugh would like Smith services to integrate an existing variety of human relations tools within a single integrated application that would use the human relations existing tools. This request from the COO will have an affect on all plant locations for Riordan Manufacturing. Riordan is trying to take advantage of new technology and be more sophisticated in ways of operating there Human Resources department. Some of what is expected from Riordan Manufacturing is that the Human Resources...
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...ervice Request SR-rm-022, Part 1 BSA/375 Service Request SR-rm-022, Part 1 Riordan Manufacturing is a global plastics manufacturer employing 550 people with projected annual earnings of $46 million. All though Riordan Manufacturing Industries is a Fortune 1000 enterprise and a global manufacturer of plastic they currently do not have an integrated system that brings all the sites together as one.Currently, there are three sites that they manufacture from in Hangzhou China, Pontiac, Michigan, and Albany, Georgia. Riordan’s headquarters are located in San Jose, California, here the research needed to maintain Riordan’s success is done. Riordan Manufacturing, like any company, would not be able to experience any success without their loyal customers and the company’s steak holders. The key stakeholders within the Riordan Manufacturing Company that I would gather requirements from first would be would be management. After the management I would gather information from the employees. No one knows a company better then its staff. I would hold a meeting with the entire staff to decipher what the company’s current business challenges and future requirements this will as help me identify the company’s current and future business process flow. Once this is done key requirements which were gathered during the focus group will be consolidated into what will be foundation of the new system Riordan Manufacturing Company. The analysis tool I would propose for this project would be...
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...Service Request SR-rm-004 part2 JOE BLOW BSA/375 December 12th 2010 Mr. Swallows Service Request SR-rm-004 part2 Riordan Manufacturing human resources information system project has reached the end of the current systems analysis phase of the system development life cycle. The information gathering process has been completed and we must move on to the next step in our SDLC. Riordan’s executive management has made clear that they wish to make the system more efficient and secure. While conducting our analysis of the Riordan Manufacturing we found many issues that need to be addressed and several inefficiencies. We also found many security concerns that need to be addressed in the interest of the company and its personnel. Application architecture and process design Designing forms and reports is a user-focused activity that typically follows a prototyping approach (Dennis, Wixom, & Roth, Chapter 8, 2009). Prototypes may help to model desired behavior, design the user interface, or analyze resource utilization (Bass, Clements, & Kazman, Chapter 1, 2003). The analyst will take in to consideration the data we compiled during part one of the service request to design a prototype of the system. This prototype will be heavily based on the needs and goals of Riordan Manufacturing executive management and take in to account some of the input from the human resources department management and staff. We learned in part one of this service request that Riordan Manufacturing’s...
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...Service Request SR-rm-022, Part 1 Your name here University of Phoenix Online BSA 375 Insrtuctor Date Service Request SR-rm-004, Part 1 Riordan Manufacturing is an international plastics manufacturer that currently employs 550 people with projected annual earnings totaling approximately $46 million. The company is completely owned by Riordan Industries which is a Fortune 1000 enterprise with revenues of up to $1 billion. The company’s merchandises consists of plastic beverage containers that are produced at its plant in Albany, Georgia; custom plastic parts are manufactured at its plant in Pontiac, Michigan; and plastic fan parts are created at its facilities in Hangzhou, China ("Riordan Manufacturing", 2013). Hugh McCauley, COO of Riordan Manufacturing, wants to integrate the existing variety of tools in use into a single integrated application. I have received a request from Hugh McCauley to develop an approach to replace the current HRIS. The current system was created in 1992 ("HRIS", 2013). With a new and improved system, Riordan will be able to become much more efficient, save time, and most importantly, save money. An advanced human resource management system can improve the company. According to the Service Request SR-rm-022, Riordan plans to put into place many of the existing HR tools into one integrated application so the company is able to benefit from a more refined information system within the Human Resource Department. ...
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...Individual: Service Request SR-rm-022, Part 1 Name BSA375 August 3 2015 Individual: Service Request SR-rm-022, Part 1 In this service request we look at the organization, Riordan Manufacturing. We will look at the stakeholders in this corporation. We hope to gather information that will benefit in the development of a system for this corporation and we will discuss how we went about gathering said information. We hope to identify the key factors of the information that we have gathered for this system to ensure the information’s validity and that it was gathered correctly. We will explain what the projects scope is and why it is important by describing the areas of project feasibility that are examined in the analysis phase of the SDLC. In the end we will have gained a better understanding of how a system analyst does their job. * Looking over the human resources side of the pillar at the Riordan manufacturing it seems that there is a good representation of each group that is a part of the Riordan family with there being four different locations three in the continental United States and one abroad in China. With that tidbit of information there is not a consistent system that like communications from the China facility to any other but the corporateeadquarters in fact the corporate head quarters is the only way there is any communication from one sister company to the other it is like a giant game of telephone. For instance what if a shipment from MI went to the China...
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...Service Request SR-rm-022, Part 1 Clarence D. Spence BSA / 375 May 12, 2015 Charles Bocage Service Request SR-rm-022, Part 1 Riordan Manufacturing’s COO Hugh McCauley would like to merge the accessible selection of tools in use into a single integrated application. The business would also like to take advantage of the more advanced state-of-the art information systems technology that readily exists within the company’s human resources department. The information gathering techniques and the planned design methods that will be utilized will be outlined. The business requirements for the improvement of an HR system to maintain the intention of this request will also be defined. Significant points that will assist in making sure that the information required for this project is collected effectively will be identified and a thorough project plan will be produced. This plan will make available a list of all day to day tasks, resources, and a schedule coupled with a financial plan required to complete the project. Information Gathering Techniques and Design Method Developing a plan is important to Riordans success, it is very crucial to gather information from numerous sources to make sure the designed plan performs its intended application. Initiating the information gathering process will begin with an essential meeting with key management personnel, the end user and most important the IT staff to discuss the project. This business meeting will consist of a question...
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...Service Request SR-rm-022, Part 1 BSA/375 Anjit Bose Service Request SR-rm-004, Part 1 Table of Contents Introduction.........................................................................................................3 * Information-Gathering Techniques and Design Methods................................................................................................................3 * Business Requirements for an HR System.................................................................................................................5 * Scope and Feasibility.............................................................................................................5 * Detailed Plan for Riordan Manufacturing....................................................................................................6 * Conclusion...........................................................................................................7 * Reference ............................................................................................................8 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Introduction * The COO, Hugh McCauley, of Riordan Manufacturing, wants to combine the existing variety of tools in use into a single integrated application. The business wants to take advantage of the more sophisticated state-of-the art information...
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...Riordan Business Systems Christina Cruel, Steven Keller, Mick Robey, James Simkins BSA/310 November 4, 2013 Paula Billups Table of Contents Abstract……………………………………………………………………………………………3 Company Background…………………………………………………………………………….4 Business Systems Overview...…………………………………………………………………….4 Riordan Business Systems……………………………………..………………………………….5 Accounting and Finance……………………………………………………………….….5 Sales and Marketing…………………………………………………………….…………8 HR……..………………………………………………………………………….……….9 Legal……………………………………………………………………………………..11 Operations………………………………………………………………………………..12 IT Security……………………………………………………………………………………….13 Conclusion……………………………………………………………………………………….14 References………………………………………………………………………………………..15 Appendices: Service Requests…………………………………………………………………...16 Appendix A: Accounting and Finance...…………………………………………………16 Appendix B: Sales and Marketing……………………………………………………….17 Appendix C: Human Resources - HRIS…………………………………………………18 Appendix D: Human Resources – CM...……………………………………...…………19 Appendix E: Operations – CAD...……………………………………………………….20 Appendix F: Operation – ERP…..……………………………………………………….21 Appendix G: Operations - Legal…...…………………………………………………….22 Appendix H: IT Security…………...…………………………………………………….23 Abstract This is a formal response to Service Request, SR-rm-012 Business Systems, which requests analysis and recommendation of Riordan Manufacturing’s current business systems. This paper evaluates the electronic...
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...Riordan Manufacturing Service Request SR-rm-022 (Section 1) Seth Stafford BSA/375 May 11, 2015 Todd Feuerherm Riordan Manufacturing Service Request SR-rm-022 Riordan Manufacturing was established in 1991 by Dr. Riordan. He started this company in San Jose, CA where currently the corporate office is and where the Research and Development Department is located. Riordan is a global plastics manufacturing company that is now employing 550 people. The annual revenues are 46 million and they have plants in Albany, GA, Pontiac, MI, and Hangzhou, China. The plant in Albany produces plastic beverage containers. The one in Pontiac products custom plastic parts and the one in China produces plastic fan parts. Riordan Manufacturing is a subsidiary of Riordan Industries, Inc a global plastics manufacturing company that is a Fortune 1000 enterprise with revenues that will exceed 1 billion (Apollo Group, 2011, 2013). The C.O.O. of Riordan Manufacturing Hugh McCauley has submitted a service request SR-RM-022 the goal to improve the human resources information system. This request will affect all plant locations throughout the company. Riordan wants the system to be state of the art and will take advantage of the newest technology out there. The expected results will define the business requirements needed to me this proposed enhancement. The overall objective is to create a detailed system and an aggressive project implementation plan that Riordan Manufacturing can plan to utilize...
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...Service Request SR-rm-022 Part 1 Janaya Hoskins BSA/375 June 29, 2015 Anjit Bose Table of Contents 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Stakeholders & Requirements 1.3 Information-gathering techniques & Systems analysis tools 1.4 Scope & Feasibility 1.5 Conclusion References Service Request SR-rm-022 Part 1 1.1 Introduction Hugh McCauley, COO of Riordan Manufacturing wants to combine existing variety of tolls that are used in a single integrated application. Riordan Manufacturing wants to take advantage of a more sophisticated state of the art information systems that already exist in the company’s human resource department. This paper will discuss what key stakeholders in Riordan Manufacturing would gather requirements from, describe the information-gathering techniques and systems analysis tools you would propose for the project, identify the key factors that help ensure the information required for the project is gathered successfully and explain what project scope is and why it is important. I will also describe the areas of project feasibility that are examined in the analysis phase of the SDLC. 1.2 Stakeholders & Requirements A stakeholder is any person, organization, social group, or society at large that has a stake in the business. Thus, stakeholders can be internal or external to the business. A stake is a vital interest in the business or its activities. It can include ownership and property interests, legal interests and obligations, and moral rights. A legal...
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...“Riordan Manufacturing Riordan Manufacturing is a worldwide plastics manufacturer employing 550 persons with projected yearly earnings of $46 million. The company is entirely owned by Riordan Manufacturing Industries, a Fortune 1000 enterprise with revenues in excess of $1 billion.” (Baihaqi, 2009) Riordan has a corporate office located in San Jose, CA this office includes both the research and development departments. Riordan also has a plant located in Albany, GA which produces their plastic beverage containers, a plant in Pontiac, MI which produces customized plastic parts, and in Hangzhou, China they have a plant the manufactures plastic fan parts. The Service Request SR-rm-022 has been issued asking to integrate the existing Human Resource tools into a single integrated application. This will be done using the existing tools found in the Human Resource System. This request will have an impact on all the listed locations of Riordan Manufacturing: Georgia, Michigan, San Jose, and China. Riordan is looking to update and become more advanced from the current information systems technology in the Human Resources department. The expected results will define business requirements in the development of the Human Resource system allowing the support of the objective of the above listed service request. The objective here is to create a system design that is detailed and a project implementation plan to complete the project. The Human Resources Department (HR) plays an important...
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...Riordan Manufacturing Service Request BSA/375 March 17, 2014 Riordan Manufacturing Service Request Key Stakeholders The first stakeholder of importance is the person submitting the service request, Hugh McCauley, the Chief Operations Officer (COO) of Riordan Manufacturing. Because the new system will build on the current system initially implemented as part of the financial system, the Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Dale Edgel, should be the second key stakeholder (Riordan 1, 2013). From there the list starts with the director of the Human Resources Department, Yvonne McMillian, as the third person of importance. Yvonne has the ability to direct the analysis team to the key users of the current system, plus provide permission for the team to conduct the necessary information gathering. Other key stakeholders include, but are not limited to * Andrea Gamby - Employee Relations Manager * Carl Green - Employee Relations Specialist (HQ) * Employee Relations Specialist from each Plant Site * Terri Carranza - Compensation & Benefits Manager * Anne Pham - Compensation Analyst * Silvija Peterson - Payroll Manager * Ana Richlich - Payroll/Tax Clerk * Eric Myers - Recruiter-Professional Staff * Marl Carillo - Training & Development Specialist * Chad Sterken - Safety Manager * Safety Technicians from each Plant Site (Riordan 2, 2013). This list should include the people directly affected by the proposed system changes...
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...Service Request SR-rm-004, Part 1 Name University Of Phoenix Riordan Manufacturing is a globally renowned plastic manufacturer, with almost 550 employees all over the world. Currently, they approximately earn $46 million every year. The manufacturing firm is owned by the Riordan Industries that gather a revenue of more than $1 billion. One of the changes that Riordan Manufacturing made in their operations is the incorporation of a Service Request order, SR-rm-04 to aid them in their analysis and maintenance of their HR system. This is one of the ways that shows that the company always hopes for innovations for their Human Resource Information System. With this Service request, the company asked my team to analyze their HR System, and identify different tools that the company can adopt for their Human resource Information system. With that, we will begin this Service request by following the typical Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC), the first step is to the analysis stage. Riordan Manufacturing named under its founder Dr. Riordan, a chemistry professor. He started the business by acquiring various patents regarding polymer processing, and turning them into high tensile strength plastic substrates (Riordan Manufacturing, 2010). Company operations officially started in 1991, and a year after, it was officially named Riordan Manufacturing Incorporated. Since then, the company started to grow as the major plastic manufacturer for plastic injection...
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...Service Request SR-rm-004, Part 1 Name University Of Phoenix Riordan Manufacturing is a globally renowned plastic manufacturer, with almost 550 employees all over the world. Currently, they approximately earn $46 million every year. The manufacturing firm is owned by the Riordan Industries that gather a revenue of more than $1 billion. One of the changes that Riordan Manufacturing made in their operations is the incorporation of a Service Request order, SR-rm-04 to aid them in their analysis and maintenance of their HR system. This is one of the ways that shows that the company always hopes for innovations for their Human Resource Information System. With this Service request, the company asked my team to analyze their HR System, and identify different tools that the company can adopt for their Human resource Information system. With that, we will begin this Service request by following the typical Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC), the first step is to the analysis stage. Riordan Manufacturing named under its founder Dr. Riordan, a chemistry professor. He started the business by acquiring various patents regarding polymer processing, and turning them into high tensile strength plastic substrates (Riordan Manufacturing, 2010). Company operations officially started in 1991, and a year after, it was officially named Riordan Manufacturing Incorporated. Since then, the company started to grow as the major plastic manufacturer for plastic injection molding (Riordan Manufacturing...
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...Service Request SR-rm-022 BSA357 January 29, 2014 Service Request SR-rm-022 Riordan Manufacturing an international plastics manufacturer employs 550 personal and has estimated annual earnings of $46 million. Riordan Manufacturing has a plant in Albany, GA that produces plastic beverage containers, a plant in Pontiac, MI that produces custom plastic parts, and a plastic fan parts facility in Hangzhou, China. Riordan Manufacturing’s corporate office is located in San Jose, CA along with the corporations Research and Development Department. Mr. Hugh McCauley, the current COO of Riordan Manufacturing has submitted a Service Request (SR-rm-022) to Smith Services Consulting Inc. requesting to combine the existing Human Resource (HR) tools into a single application using today's existing tools in the HR system. This request will affect all plant locations. Riordan Manufacturing is looking to benefit from a more state-of-the-art information systems in its HR department. The service request will include information gathering about what the new system should include, the current system needs to be analyzed, the information gathered needs to be verified, and the scope of the work needs to be determined. A. What key stakeholders in Riordan Manufacturing would you gather requirements from? To gather all the proper requirements for the new HR system all the key stakeholders within the Riordan Manufacturing must be asked. The key stakeholders are the upper management of Riordan...
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