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Riordan Manufacturing IS Upgrades
February 8, 2006
To compete in the 21st century companies need to be on the leading edge not only with
product design and development, but at the cutting edge in business efficiency. To attain
this requires the successful 21st century corporation to have computer systems capable of
working together, information that can be easily shared within a global business
environment, accurate inventory control throughout the manufacturing and distribution
process, and the ability to function in a world that never sleeps. After reviewing the IS
infrastructure, the Inventory Management practices, and Distribution processes we have
come up with a proposal that, with an initial one time capital investment, will place
Riordan Manufacturing at the forefront of technology and a model for the rest of the
Corporate World.
After reviewing the IT infrastructure at Riordan Manufacturing four locations we propose
that the Albany and Pontiac facilities replace their current systems with ones that mirror
the technology in San Jose and China. This will include a new enterprise level software
package that will integrate inventory, billing, manufacturing, ordering, payroll, shipping,
and product development. To achieve this goal we have developed a list of hardware
requirements for Albany and Pontiac. The hardware requirements for the Albany and
Pontiac facilities will include 75 new workstations purchased from Dell, since Riordan
already has a relationship with them, the workstations will have minimum requirement of
Optiflex 2.6Ghz processor, 512MB of RAM, 60GB Hard drives, and run Windows 2000
operating system. We will also install new CAT 6 Ethernet wiring, new servers, replacethe
