With many years spent in marine manufacturing, sales and marketing, Mark is familiar with the complexities of understanding a small business’s production processes, costing systems, and quoting strategies.

Whether your objective is to achieve consistency in quoting (both in content and appearance!), matching complicated production requirements to incoming orders,  or producing and maintaining accurate costings, Mark is able to work with you to build a rational and consistent model. He will deliver a software solution, based on Microsoft Excel to run  on your PC, and provides the information you, your customers and your production team or suppliers require, in a format which works for all parties.

Models have been developed for a number of businesses including Sobstad Sails, UK sailmakers, and the RYA (Royal Yachting Association).

Kevin Sproul, managing director of Sobstad Elvstrom Sailmakers Ltd, comments:

“During the last 6 years Mark has developed a number of IT solutions for our business.  Mark's initial brief was to develop an integrated customer database and quoting system to speed up our response time to customer enquiries.  Due to the success of the initial project we then commissioned a production control log to enable accurate tracking of all new orders through production along with the margins for each individual product.  Both these solutions have helped us grow our business and offer a higher level of service to our customers”.