Custom Fabricators, Inc. Case
As Ben Lawson, CEO of Custom Fabricators, Inc., drove back to his home
in South Indianapolis, he thought about the day.
I’ve done a lot of business with Orleans Elevator in Bloomington over
the years but just wonder how long this will continue. I have much
invested in my manufacturing plant located right next to their plant,
but now that United Technologies [the parent company of Orleans] is all
into this FreeMarkets Internet purchasing system, I just wonder how long
they are going to be interested in keeping me in the supply-chain loop.
It’s been a good business over the past few years. I was in the right
place at the right time when Orleans got into just-in-time and lean
manufacturing in the late 1980s. Initially, I was just making the
control panels for the elevators. It was interesting to walk into a new
building, get on the elevator, and see my company’s handiwork in that
beautiful stainless steel panel that houses the buttons for the floors
on the building. I could take a lot of pride in the craftsmanship even
though it was largely a technology thing. That new numerically
controlled machine tool that I purchased in 1985 made making the holes
in those custom panels easy. We are still making beautiful panels.
Since that time my company has gotten a lot of other business from
Orleans. We now make all kinds of special brackets and panels for the
plant. This has been great for us over the years. We have set up a very
efficient process for fabricating exactly what the plant needs in these
parts with very little lead time. For most items, Orleans simply gives
us the production schedule for elevators being shipped over the next
month, and we make the required parts automatically. We know exactly
what they need based on their schedule. Of course, it is easy to modify
things for the specific needs of a particular elevator order.
The business has changed over the past few years, though.
“Outsourcing†is now the big game. Orleans is much more interested
in whole subassemblies rather than just the parts. We now make that
entire control panel, complete with the buttons and the wiring harness.
One of our biggest money makers is the elevator motor housing. This is a
massive box that contains the motor and control electronics for the
elevator. The motor housing electronically connects to our control
panel. We custom fabricate each of these in our shop and ship them
directly to the site where the elevator is being assembled. The Orleans
plant never even sees them.
I believe that asset misappropriation by accounts payable fraud is occurring at Wayland Manufacturing Company due to a lack of proper internal controls. Making the company’s Chief Accountant responsible for additional day-to-day functions provides him with opportunity to commit by creating fictitious vendors with his information and then creating fictitious invoices. Newbaker can then conceal his fraud by approving the invoices for payment. Employees working at an organization for more than five years are more likely to commit fraud. Therefore, Newbaker’s six-year history with the company has made him trustworthy and very knowledgeable, which could indicate involvement in asset misappropriation. The high employee turnover could represent a past fraudster leaving before getting caught or employees refusing to continue with the asset misappropriation. In addition, the varying monthly accounts payable transactions ranging from the lowest being April 2014 and
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