RiordanManufacturing

IT System Upgrade Recommendation

Team Names hereCIS319 - Computers & Information Processing

Table of Contents

1. Background

2. Scope

3. Requirements

4. Existing processes

5. Recommendations

6. Conclusion

7. References

Background

RiordanManufacturing

Fortune 1000Enterprise

550 Employees

Projected Annual

Earnings $46 million

Revenues in excess of $1

billion

Scope

• Prepare business requirements for system upgrade for IT and/or Consultant use

• Identify current processes and potential areas of improvement

• Resolve departmental conflict by increasing the reliability and increase the capabilities of IT systems

Existing Processes

•Current operational processes have unique variables for each Riordan location.

•The processes are documented but create a labor intensive, manual and inefficient way

to process business functions.

Existing Processes

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Final Product

Shipping

Customer SalesCustomer Shipping and Billing

Order Shipping Documents

Distribution

Warehouse

Customer Inventory Clerk

Sales order Form

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Inventory

Manufacturing

Inventory Manufacturing Team Manufacturing

Inventory ClerkManufacturing Team

Inventory Clerk

From Inventory To assembly

Reports provided to Inventory Clerk

SuppliersReceiving Supervisor

Receiving Team unloads raw materials

Shipments Verified

Inventory moved to Factory

Receiving Supervisor Inventory Clerk

Receiving Log to clerk

Receiving Log

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Raw Materials

Receiving

Recommendations

Proposed ERP SystemRiordan

Research & Development

Distribution

Inventory

Pay to $

Payroll

Accounting

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

Finance

Information SystemsERP

Management

Marketing

Customer Service

Manufacturing

Sales

Suppliers

Enterprise Resource Planning

Recommendations - Hardware

• Bar Code Label Printers (Portable)

• Barcode Scanner & Reader

• Mobile Computers

• PDA’s

Barcode Label Printer

Barcode Label Scanner

Mobile Computer

PDA

Recommendations - Software

• Inventory Management System (IMS)

• Asset Tracking Software

• Order Management Software (OMS)

• Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)

Conclusion

• Clients Relationships

• Employees

• Riodan’s Focus and Future

References

Hardware / Software Recommendations:

Datex. (2008). Supply Chain Management Software Solutions at Datex International. Retrieved Jun 7, 2010, from http://www.datexcorp.com/content/hardware-solutions.htm

Datex. (2008). Supply Chain Management Software Solutions at Datex International. Retrieved Jun 7, 2010, from http://www.datexcorp.com/content/software-solutions.htm