Competitive Advantages: Riordan Manufacturing
Competitive Advantages: How the Global Market would affect Riordan 's Business Strategy
Carl Wise
MGT/498
02/22/2015
John Waltbillig
Competitive Advantages: How the Global Market would affect Riordan 's Business Strategy
Based in San Jose, California with a variety of plastic manufacturing operations across the United States (New York, Michigan, Georgia), Riordan Manufacturing also produces fan parts in Hang Zhou, China and customer base in China, United Kingdom, Russia, Thailand, India, Canada, Italy and Brazil. Riordan Manufacturing has a good base for global competition with various international operations is a Fortune 1000 Industry leader (using polymer materials to provide solutions to customers) averaging annual earnings of $46 million however falls short of achieving full potential competitively due to inefficient management, planning, scheduling and production strategies. In order for Riordan Manufacturing to achieve and maintain the competitive advantage globally the company must complete an environmental scan that includes its international market to develop a strategic marketing plan that effectively propels the company efficiently forward innovatively. …show more content…
The company uses the Six Sigma (documentation and improvement implement, training program Implement green program) which is a management system that (according to Six Sigma) streamlines and perfects operations processes down to a maximum of one defect per 3.4 million products and ISO 9000 (international standard of QA; certified material sample process) standards in quality management in
Carl Wise
MGT/498
02/22/2015
John Waltbillig
Competitive Advantages: How the Global Market would affect Riordan 's Business Strategy
Based in San Jose, California with a variety of plastic manufacturing operations across the United States (New York, Michigan, Georgia), Riordan Manufacturing also produces fan parts in Hang Zhou, China and customer base in China, United Kingdom, Russia, Thailand, India, Canada, Italy and Brazil. Riordan Manufacturing has a good base for global competition with various international operations is a Fortune 1000 Industry leader (using polymer materials to provide solutions to customers) averaging annual earnings of $46 million however falls short of achieving full potential competitively due to inefficient management, planning, scheduling and production strategies. In order for Riordan Manufacturing to achieve and maintain the competitive advantage globally the company must complete an environmental scan that includes its international market to develop a strategic marketing plan that effectively propels the company efficiently forward innovatively. …show more content…
The company uses the Six Sigma (documentation and improvement implement, training program Implement green program) which is a management system that (according to Six Sigma) streamlines and perfects operations processes down to a maximum of one defect per 3.4 million products and ISO 9000 (international standard of QA; certified material sample process) standards in quality management in