Riordan Manufacturing Sr-Rm-001
...of receiving raw materials, tracking products during manufacturing, and accounting for the finished good inventories. The current process and procedures have become outdated and Riordan Manufacturing’s COO, Hugh McCualey, has submitted a service request to Team A of the University of Phoenix to improve Riordan’s inventory and manufacturing process. Hugh McCualey believes that if some of the process in computerized that it would make the process more efficient. Hugh McCualey’s would like the team to create a business requirements definition for system upgrade and improvements that can be given to the IT department or information system consultants.
Receiving of Raw Materials
The current process in place for receiving raw materials requires that the Riordan receiving area supervisor compare the shipping documents to the scheduled orders receiving report. The scheduled orders report is given to the receiving supervisor every week and is organized by date. The shipping documents are provided by the truck driver at the time that a delivery is made. At the end of the day the receiving supervisor gives the log of all raw materials received and the shipping documents to the receiving clerk. The inventory clerk then enters the information into the inventory system. The information includes the type of materials received, the vendor, and the quantity.
Team A believes that through the use of barcodes and scanners that the Riordan process of receiving of raw material can become more efficient. The use of a handheld, mobile computer would be the most efficient technology to implement. Not only do such hand held computers have the ability to be used as a scanner, but they are being built more durable, can capture data through many various methods, and are also wireless which helps organizations manage their inventory and data in real-time (Symbol Technologies, 2007)....
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