Marling Software Design Limited

MSD is the internal systems development division of Marling Industrial Felts Limited, the Gloucestershire-based needlepunch manufacturer.

Marling was originally established in 1813 as a weaver of West of England worsted cloth.

The company has been manufacturing carpets since the mid 1960's and has ISO9002 quality accreditation.

It is a private company with a turnover of £5M in needlepunch and industrial filtration cloth.

MSD shares the listed mill in Stonehouse near Stroud in Gloucestershire with Marling Industrial Felts and Warlord Contract Carpets Limited, another member of the MIF Group.

As the Group grew there was an urgent need to develop Sales and Invoicing, Stock Control and Production Management systems to co-ordinate the operations.

Nicola Michael is an accountant-trained systems designer who was recruited to deal with the task of setting up a sophisticated network to control everything from dye-mixtures to order processing and invoicing.

Having developed and proved the industrial system which now controls Marling operations, her department was incorporated as MSD Limited to market their systems skills in other markets. Mrs Michael is now Managing Director of the new company.

Marling Software Design has developed third-party systems for an Underwriting Agency to control underwriting and claims handling; commercially available software to produce Business Plans; and other database and office systems applications.

"As a 'small' business," says Nicola, "although operating under the umbrella of the Group, I understand only too well how difficult is it to have to learn a new skill for one task like business planning which does not directly have a bearing on what you do each day, whether that is window cleaning or computer programming. It is always important to make every minute count. We were very happy to help develop this software to make the task of business planning as quick and painless as possible."

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