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CREATED BY: NICOLE K. SANTA ISABEL
DATE: 12/16/2014

New Proposal Guide


Background on Riordan Manufacturing



Products and services offered



Inventory Process



Proposed Solution



Changes and suggestions



GISS role in changes and the new process



Proposed solution



Production



Plans

Riordan Manufacturing


Riordan Manufacturing, Inc. was founded in 1991 and is the main leader in the field of plastic molding. The company’s locations are in Albany, GA, Pontiac, MI, Hangzhou, China, and it headquarters in San Jose, CA.



The company is 100% owned by Riordan Industries and has over
550 employees. The customer base for Riordan includes automotive parts , aircraft parts, Department of Defense, beverage makers, and bottlers.

Product and Services


Riordan Manufacturing, Inc. researches and creates plastic injection moldings. 

The Company produces/provides the following products/services:



Plastic Bottles



Fans



Heart Valves



Medical Stents



Custom Plastic Parts



Presently, our products are in the maturity stage. They compete primarily based on our cutting edge standards. Our future plans include developing a more improved inventory process.

Inventory Process


Riordan Manufacturing, Inc. current process is a manual process which consumes most of an employee’s time and not financially stable. The process performs on manual entry at the end of each business day by the warehouse department. Each of the locations within the company operates independently of each other with no inner communication. Each department has its own inventory which could result in the possiblility of over purchasing of materials while another location could have overstocked. The process of receiving materials is a long an unaccurate process. A receiving department employee must visually inspect the paper work and verify that all the items purchased on the invoice has come in. A paper process that could result in a lost of

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