Consulting Services That Helped Marine Solutions

Amy Wilkins’ Experience Working With American Management Services:

Thank you for the services American Management Services performed for us at Marine Solutions, Inc. Our company has increased in the past several years.

Before this consulting engagement, we struggled to achieve our full potential as we expanded our business and geography. We had started some initiatives using our project management system but had yet to be able to fully synthesize these efforts into effective management systems that ensure profit.

Working with American Management Services will help us develop and institutionalize the management systems needed to lock in profits as we grow.

As we complete our engagement with American Management Services, I am confident in moving forward with our plans to achieve the profit goals we defined at the beginning of the project. We are finalizing and implementing the much-needed process improvements in the company’s critical financial, organizational, and operational areas. We already realized a $120,000 reduction in indirect costs and an overall gross margin improvement of 6% versus last year.

Herb Bachelder, the Group Manager, was instrumental in identifying opportunities to improve our financial analysis of the business by showing us different ways to break down labor costs on jobs. His insights are helping us better manage our labor estimates on projects.

Andy Scirri, the Senior Consultant, helped us understand the tracking of gross margin by business through the implementation of flash reports and the generation of a plan-for-profit budget.

He worked well in the organization and developed and assisted in implementing critical management systems, including the Targeted Development process and Sales Planning and Management system, in helping grow the organization’s capabilities. He also provided mentorship and coaching to the executive team as we implemented these changes. 

With the help of American Management Services, we are on pace to improve our profits by $500,000 this year alone and to significantly exceed that number in years to come. 

Based on my recent success with American Management Services, I highly recommend your services to other business leaders. Thanks again.

Sincerely,