Practical thinking for running a better marine service business.
Notes on labor recovery, job readiness, estimating and billing, drawn from the day-to-day work of running a marine service business.
Start with the operating problem.
Use these articles to identify what to measure, which questions to ask and where to start making changes.
How to Know If Your Boatyard Is Actually Recovering Labor
Separate paid hours, productive capacity, billable time and realized labor revenue so management can see where technician time is leaking.
SCHEDULINGWhy Boatyard Schedules Fall Apart by Wednesday
The calendar is rarely the root cause. Capacity, readiness, priorities and hidden dependencies are usually doing the damage.
PROFITABILITYBusy Boatyard, Weak Profit: Where Margin Disappears
Backlog proves demand. It does not prove the operation is converting that demand into healthy contribution.
MANAGEMENT7 Boatyard KPIs That Actually Matter
A short operating scorecard is more useful than a dashboard full of numbers nobody acts on.
SYSTEMSWhen Spreadsheets Stop Working for Marine Service Scheduling
Spreadsheets are not the enemy. The problem starts when the operation asks one file to behave like a live multi-user operating system.
ZYS CONSULTINGHave a problem that looks familiar?
Bring the recurring operating issue. ZYS can help determine what is actually driving it and whether it is worth solving together.