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Riordan Manufacturing

Introduction

Riordian Manufacturing, which is headquartered in San Jose, California, currently maintains three facilities in the United States. Additionally, it has currently formed a partnership with Szechuan Heavy Industries Inc. located in the city of Chongquin, in mainland China (Apollo Group Inc, 2003). Riordian Manufacturing has retained Lars Consulting, LLP, whose objective during the engagement is to audit and analyze all its current manufacturing processes; procedures; documentation, and internal policies for potential processes improvements and expedite the implementation of such recommended and approved improvements. Lars Consulting must also ensure that Riordan Manufacturing is compliant with any and all existing legal and corporate standards.
Riordan Manufacturing Internet Site
Accessing Riordan Manufacturing’s web site reveals unimaginative and non user friendly web page navigation. It has very little information and does not serve the company or its customers in an informative way. SSC can fully integrate the new web page into the SAP Enterprise Resource Planning software system. This integration will allow all major systems passage to the information which will make reporting and accounting a complete process. This e-commerce resolution will afford Riordan Manufacturing a considerably greater online presence and will certainly increase their revenue. (SAP, 2007)

Inventory Management and Control
The Inventory Management and Control business system at Riordan Manufacturing is the first step in creating the many goods offered by Riordan Manufacturing. The receiving of raw materials is the beginning of the process which facilitates manufacturing of goods. Receiving raw materials begins when a supplier delivers goods to one of the Riordan manufacturing plants.
A supervisor is required to compare the shipping document against the incoming order. At the end of the day after all goods have been unloaded the supervisor give a...