Strategic Plan Riordan Manufacturing is a mid-size American company that was founded in 1991‚ employs 550 people and has projected annual earnings of $46 million. Riordan has three manufacturing locations‚ two in the United States and one in China. Riordan understands the importance of strategic planning and will lay out their reasoning in this paper. Competitive advantages‚ sustainability‚ innovation and ethical and social responsibilities will be addressed‚ as well as cultural and structural leadership
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Solutions Riordan Manufacturing Abstract The following paper will provide a brief background explanation detailing some of the issues found in the Manufacture. There will a series of three possible solutions identified for Riordan where one will be officially chosen. A brief description of the chosen strategy and solutions will then be detailed to provide a better understanding as to why the solution was the best fit for the company. The paper will proceed with an elaboration of each Riordan department
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Riordan Manufacturing wants to improve innovation and sustainability of business operations both in the United States and in the global market. An executive team at Riordan researched other companies including Nike to decide on the most effective competitive strategies to employ for attaining this goal. Below is a report of the findings that include which competitive advantages Riordan has in common with Nike. Based on the commonality between the companies is a recommendation of which competitive
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and Paper Manufacturing Relevant to Purchasers? Pulp and paper manufacturing accounts for the vast majority of the environmental impacts of the paper lifecycle. The manufacturing process that transforms wood from trees into thin‚ uniform paper products requires the intensive use of wood‚ energy and chemicals. This process also consumes thousands of gallons of a finite resource‚ clean water‚ to make each ton of paper. Pollution literally represents a waste of these resources‚ in the form of air emissions
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Six Sigma Some say‚ Robert Galvin invented Six Sigma in the 1880’s‚ instead‚ he applied methodologies that had been available since the 1920’s developed by luminaries such as: Shewhart‚ Deming‚ Juran‚ Ishikawa‚ Ohno‚ Shingo‚ Taguchi‚ and Shainin. The idea behind Six Sigma is you can measure how many defects you have in a process‚ you can systematically figure out how to eliminate them and as close to zero defects as possible. We use this highly disciplined Six Sigma process to help us focus
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OPS/571 February 13‚ 2012 Riordan Manufacturing Learning Team C has completed the analysis of Riordan Manufacturing’s electric fan design process and has developed a proposal outlining the changes that need to be implemented. The team is proposing to focus on total quality management (TQM); this will allow Riordan to remain focused and efficient in areas of opportunity‚ and to excel in all aspects of the electric fans that are important to customers. The team’s recommendation is to use quality
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On The Breakthrough Management Strategy Revolutionizing the World’s Top Corporations “SIX SIGMA” TABLE OF CONTENTS S.No TOPICS PAGE No. 1. Acknowledgement 3 2. Objective 4 3. Introduction 5 4. History 7 5. Central Concepts 8 6. Process 9 7. Scale of measurement 10 8. Methodology 11 9. Tools and Themes 12 10. Some Success Stories 15 11. Impact 18 12. Benefits
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results of an exploratory study of six-sigma‚ suggest that the development of knowledge and learning communities is instrumental to sustaining six-sigma initiatives. Case studies highlight particular aspects of implementation and deployment efforts. The work presented in this report is to capture the current state of Six Sigma as well as to document the current practices of Six Sigma. Six key findings have been established. These include the interpretation of Six Sigma‚ tools and techniques‚ its development
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INTRODUCTION Six Sigma was developed at Motorola in mid 1980’s when Motorola Company declared 10X reduction in product-failure. Six Sigma was originally used to compute the defects during manufacturing processes‚ and to trim down the faults at every level in the processes. Motorola declared millions of savings by using this method. GE also used Six Sigma and declared that it save up around US $ 300 million to operating income. From the last decade there has been a major initiatives by various industries
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from the rich to the poor‚ living in cities & in villages. While some have it for breakfast‚ for others it is a complete wholesome meal. For some it’s the best accompaniment for chai‚ while for some it’s a way of getting charged whenever they are low on energy. Because of this‚ Parle-G is the world’s largest selling brand of biscuits. Launched in the year 1939‚ it was one of the first brands of Parle Products. It was called Parle Glucose Biscuits.The incredible demand led Parle to introduce the
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