During these strange times global manufacturing companies who are in heavily regulated sectors, such as pharma and healthcare face several issues. The biggest being maintaining budgets as raw materials prices and other costs swing upwards.

Macmarts a Limerick based provider of cloud applications for manufacturing companies has the solution. Spendbooks is a one of a kind spend management software for manufacturing companies or companies who are in heavily regulated sectors such as pharma and healthcare. Ronan talks to Tony Frawley, CEO of Macmarts about Spendbooks more.

Tony talks about his background, what Macmarts do, sustainability, how Spendbooks works, budgeting, digital transformation, approval of requisitions, change management, why they are a scale up, their future plans, and Brexit.

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Macmarts was originally developed by their parent company Macnovate in 2017, Macmarts delivers spend management and project resource management applications for the life science, healthcare and other heavily regulated industries. Macmarts is a flexible and fully customisable platform ideally suited to manufacturing organisations ranging from medium-sized businesses to large enterprises.

With four decades of real life experience working at the coalface in the ever-changing, high-octane manufacturing arena, we’ve harnessed our collective industry intelligence to develop a SaaS platform to support manufactures in building Digital Manufacturing Enterprises.

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Ronan Leonard

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