Business View Magazine | April 2019

53 makes me a landlord now. In total, I have four employees; a plant manager and three guys that are my crew in the shop. Two of them I trained, myself. I didn’t hire the manager until three years ago. Somehow, it survived with just me and this crew of guys which I’m very reliant on. I never worry about quality, because these guys know what they are doing. They are hard- working, dedicated, and I’m blessed to have them. And maybe the luck of the Irish - there might be some of that going on, too.” BVM: What products and services do you pro- vide? McGahan: “Our raw material is flat steel plate. I sell tank heads, but I’m mostly selling ser- vice, so my supply chain is very important. I buy directly from steel mills and also from steel distributors – middle men that buy from the mills and then sell to guys like me. Deliv- ery from the domestic mills is usually about three months. I keep just over a million dol- lars worth of tank head inventory on the floor, which is really what I’m providing my custom- ers. I carry the inventory burden, so customers don’t have to. They can call me and place an order on short notice for a mixed load and be pretty confident I can get it to them within a week or two. “In the niche I’m in, the industry uses a lot of repeat sizes of flat heads. Over the years I’ve kept a forecast and tweak it regularly, so I know what customers are going to purchase SHAMROCK STEEL, INC.