Riordan Business Systems Proposal
...their financial processes and production software packages. Not one of the three offices or corporate use the same system, which makes data collection, verification, and reporting difficult at best. They need to have a uniform business system throughout all the facilities, as well as procedures implemented in order to attain this goal of seamless data collection they are hoping to achieve. The customer will need to upgrade all their hardware in addition to their current software packages.
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The customer currently is using several financial packages at each of its three facilities. The San Jose facility, the corporate office, is currently running a financial management software application that was specifically designed for their type of manufacturing company. This was designed by ERP and the current license agreement does not provide the application source code. The Michigan office is currently utilizing a proprietary vendor developed software package. They are utilizing a VMS operating system and the source code is programmed in C. The vendor for their software is no longer in business, which means any upgrades to the system would have to be done by the Michigan office instead of the vendor, which is normally ill advised. The Georgia plant is also using a proprietary vendor developed software package. They also have access to the source code of their current software. Hangzhou, their joint venture plant in China, has currently not identified their software package and procedures, although they seem to have the most up to date hardware in the company.
The current financial packages throughout the organization are not seamless. There is currently no interfacing of financial data from their other software packages. The interface of data to the corporate office is in various file formats. This takes time from the corporate office as they have...
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