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riordan finacen. Finance and Accounting Currently Riordan Manufacturing
is having a challenging time trying to gather all the data ...
Submitted by j212smith on April 10, 2008
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Finance and Accounting
Currently Riordan Manufacturing is having a challenging time trying to gather all the data that generates from its Finance and Accounting departments. All of the plant locations have different kinds of Finance and accounting systems, which may be the main reason Riordan Manufacturing has a hard time maintaining the data received. The company’s three operating locations each have their own Finance and Accounting systems. The plant in Pontiac, Michigan and the plant in Albany, Georgia feed data to the corporate headquarters in San Jose, California. Riordan Manufacturing also has a joint venture in Hangzhou, China. Although there is no mention of China’s data output on the company’s Intranet site, the company has facilities there that manufactures plastic fan parts. There should be data coming from that headquarters must there but the status of the Finance and Accounting system used in China is currently unknown.
Corporate headquarters currently has a license for an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system that is fully integrated and Windows based. It is designed specifically for plastics processing and assembly manufacturers. The ERP software has a financial management application included, along with manufacturing and distribution applications. The license the San Jose location has is from proprietary software, so it does not include the source code. Because the software does not come with a source code there is no way to modify the software for customization purposes.
When Riordan Manufacturing acquired the plant Michigan, the facility’s Financial and Accounting system was not taken into consideration. The Michigan location has a vendor developed application and the accompanying source code that was purchased some time ago, that runs on an old Legacy system. The vendor that Michigan purchased the software from is no longer in business. The application runs on a pair of Digital Equipment Corporation...
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