With Crow’s Nest Software, you’re not confined to a fixed set of features. Our modular approach enables you to choose the functionality you need and scale up as your business grows. You get to choose both the starting point of implementation and set the pace of implementation. That way, your pressing priorities are immediately addressed within a timeframe that makes the most sense for your business.
From estimating, communication, inventory management, and scheduling, to milestone tracking, financials, and reporting, our diverse modules can be easily customized and integrated to create a custom ERP software solution that meets your requirements.
From estimating, communication, inventory management, and scheduling, to milestone tracking, financials, and reporting, our diverse modules can be easily customized and integrated to create a custom ERP software solution that meets your exact requirements.
Quickly create accurate estimates based on a customizable product library, enabling complete and effortless takeoffs.
In addition to providing company-wide information on a project-by-project basis, our Project Communications module also encapsulates the following functionality:
Eliminate any downstream delays with upstream planning. Our Task Management module will make any organization more efficient and enforce Best Practices.
Task Management features include:
Manage and track RFI’s, shop drawings, samples, and finish submissions for approval. Create a log of all drawings to be submitted for approval. Track all required shop drawing progress in conformance with project related milestone dates. Track revision history for each drawing line-item in the list. Track required submittal dates and when each drawing has been returned. Links to the drawing files are also associated with each drawing line-item, for one-click viewing of the drawing.
Get real time visibility of your production operations with the flexibility to eliminate bottlenecks, resource constraints, delays, and meet your customers’ deadlines. Achieve precise business planning with forward and backward scheduling capabilities. Utilize our capacity planner to proactively eliminate potential future production issues.
Create work orders tailored to your production capabilities and capacities, defining their size, scope, and type. Track unique milestone dates for each work order and apply templates of date-driven prioritized tasks, based on the work order’s milestones, quantities, and other relevant details.
Accurately collect real-time labor in the shop or out on site with either our Windows-based or mobile app timeclock feature.
Getting your projects onsite is never a simple task. With Crows Nest ERP, you can be confident that your manifests are accurate and your projects will reach their destinations on time, every time.
Complete visibility between budget vs actual costings. Easily track change orders within each project.
We offer our customers reporting that’s tailored to their specific needs, whether it’s adjusting one of the 300 standard report layouts that are included or creating an entirely new layout.
Extract precisely the data you need with our fully customizable reports—access live and historical data to ensure accurate business planning and complete data transparency.
With Custom Report Dashboards, Crows Nest offers custom report development tailored to new customers’ specific needs as part of our standard service. If the data exists in Crows Nest, we can create a custom report designed according to your specifications.
Crows Nest software is complete with ready-to-go integrations with Quick Books, Sage and Zero software. Additionally, Crows Nest has created many integrations to 3rd party software such as Bluebeam, Planswift, Microvellum, Cabinet Vision, Mitrefinch, and Excel. If your 3rd party solution has the means to accept or export data, Crows Nest will develop a solution for easy data sharing.
Gain complete control and visibility of your entire business at the touch of a button.
Access important files, photos and Documents reach out to contacts through phone or email, create punch lists, and tasks while on-site with our mobile app. Simple one-click time clock login and logout and communicate easily with the workshop through notes and notifications. Access and enable, remote operations, data, and other vital project information:
Catalog track and manage your fixed assets ranging from vehicles and machinery to computers and furniture. In addition to robust inventory management, Fixed Asset Management offers advanced depreciation calculation methods to ensure financial accuracy and compliance. Users can choose from four depreciation methods – Straight-line, Declining Balance, Sum of Year’s Digits, and Units of Production.
Quickly create accurate estimates based on a customizable product library, enabling complete and effortless takeoffs.
In addition to providing company-wide information on a project-by-project basis, our Project Communications module also encapsulates the following functionality:
Eliminate any downstream delays with upstream planning. Our Task Management module will make any organization more efficient and enforce best practices.
Manage and track RFI’s, shop drawings, samples, and finish submissions for approval. Create a log of all drawings to be submitted for approval. Track all required shop drawing progress in conformance with project-related milestone dates. Track revision history for each drawing line item in the list. Track required submittal dates and when each drawing has been returned. Links to the drawing files are also associated with each drawing line-item, for one-click viewing of the drawing.
Get real-time visibility of your production operations with the flexibility to eliminate bottlenecks, resource constraints, and delays, and meet your customer’s deadlines. Achieve precise business planning with forward and backward scheduling capabilities. Utilize our capacity planner to proactively eliminate potential future production issues.
Create work orders tailored to your production capabilities and capacities, defining their size, scope, and type. Track unique milestone dates for each work order and apply templates of date-driven prioritized tasks, based on the work order’s milestones, quantities, and other relevant details.
Accurately collect real-time labor in the shop or out on site with either our Windows-based or mobile app time-clock feature.
Getting your projects onsite is never a simple task. With Crows Nest ERP, you can be confident that your manifests are accurate and your projects will reach their destinations on time, every time.
Complete visibility between budget vs actual costings. Easily track change orders within each project.
We offer our customers reporting that’s tailored to their specific needs, whether it’s adjusting one of the 300 standard report layouts that are included or creating an entirely new layout.
Extract precisely the data you need with our fully customizable reports—access live and historical data to ensure accurate business planning and complete data transparency.
With Custom Report Dashboards, Crows Nest offers custom report development tailored to new customers’ specific needs as part of our standard service. If the data exists in Crows Nest, we can create a custom report designed according to your specifications.
Crows Nest software is complete with ready-to-go integrations with Quick Books, Sage, and Zero software. Additionally, Crows Nest has created many integrations to 3rd party software such as Bluebeam, Planswift, Microvellum, Cabinet Vision, Mitrefinch, and Excel. If your 3rd party solution has the means to accept or export data, Crows Nest will develop a solution for easy data sharing.
Gain complete control and visibility of your entire business at the touch of a button.
Access important files, photos, and tasks while on-site with our mobile app. Simple one-click timeclock login and logout and communicate easily with the workshop through notes and notifications. Access and enable, remote operations, data, and other vital project information:
Catalog track and manage your fixed assets ranging from vehicles and machinery to computers and furniture. In addition to robust inventory management, Fixed Asset Management offers advanced depreciation calculation methods to ensure financial accuracy and compliance. Users can choose from four depreciation methods – Straight-line, Declining Balance, Sum of Year’s Digits, and Units of Production.
As organizational leaders, top management is chiefly focused in overall progress of all projects under contract. Crows Nest offers multiple comprehensive views of critical business processes enabling informed decisions and when necessary proactive course correction based on real-time project execution information..
User-created status definitions are tracked at every meaningful level within Crows Nest. Pick a level such as Estimate, Project, Work Order, Shop Drawing, or Punchlist Status to quickly view across respective information in a single glance. Status may easily be changed with a simple drag and drop.
View all open invoices by project, project status, customer, invoice number, invoice date, invoice sent date, payment promised date, discounts offered, and outstanding amount.
User-defined status definitions are monitored at every significant level within Crows Nest. Choose from levels like Estimate, Project, Work Order, Shop Drawing, or Punchlist Status to quickly access relevant information at a glance. You can easily change statuses with a simple drag and drop.
In addition to viewing all work orders within a single project, Management and Project Leaders are provided with a view enabling all work orders across all projects, supported with multiple sort and filter options resulting in the exact information being sought. Furthermore, each user may customize their view to their personal preferences.
Commercial projects require multi-team efforts in executing their individual project roles. Project communication becomes essential for each project member to have total visibility of what has occurred downstream and upstream within their responsibility. Crows Nest offers multiple views such as Project milestone dates, Project folders, Project Contacts/CRM, Project Reports, Project Flags, and Project links.
Crows Nest takes dashboards to the ultimate level with over 300 reports along with their Dashboard Creation tool, which users can employ to create unlimited dashboards specific to their requirements and preferences. Dashboard Press Release
Crows Nest Software integrates with the most popular COTS (commercial off the shelf) accounting software such as Quick Books, Sage and Xero.
Create accurate estimates quickly based on a customizable product library, enabling complete and effortless takeoffs. Each library product contains all respective parts and labor operations required to produce the deliverable. Project scope is also captured in each estimate allowing holistic cost estimating, or group breakdown costing. Import an estimate from a previous similar project for a quick starting point on a new quotation. Easily produce Alternate Quotes as well as account for material substitution pricing. Individual and customizable material and labor profit markups results in finalized selling price with little effort. Utilize custom reports to generate views ranging from cost details to bid summaries to ready-to-send proposals.
Use PDF Markup tools such as Planswift, Onscreen Takeoff, and BlueBeam to complete your takeoff and then directly import all items into Crows Nest Estimating for material and labor breakdown calculation. Alternatively, select and drag and drop from your custom created product template library to complete your takeoff.
The product library consists of templates that incorporate material and labor operation items. Each of the material and labor items may be dynamically calculated based on user-defined formulas.
The product library template material lists are available to populate a downstream Bill Of Materials for purchasing.
Markup Labor by individual labor Departments or a default labor markup across all department. Markup Material in similar fashion by category.
Turn on or off various aspects of your Estimate and view resultant price to be offered as an alternate. Produce unlimited alternate pricing views.
Crows Nest employs custom report writing/formatting capability, to produce unique proposal forms based on your requirements.
Control, monitor, and coordinate activities for all of your projects, at all your job sites, and in all your company locations.
Crows Nest Software task management feature enables users to drive productivity via a user-defined workflow consistent with tasks. When the workflow has been optimized to include only value-laden tasks, the result is best practice enforcement. Eliminate any downstream delays with upstream planning. Our project scheduling software can make any organization more efficient.
Unlimited company-level project and work order milestone dates are created by and for each Crows Nest customer. You decide what milestone dates are paramount to track with a simple click to get real-time updated information. Milestone dates may be manually or automatically updated based on their creation method. Custom Dashboards, Reports, Queries, and Alerts may be created to specifically notify when a date threshold has been passed.
Track all shop drawings against the Target Date to Complete, Start Date, Due Date, Issue Date, and Return date per each cycle of revisions with Revision Tracking History.
Work from Material Requisitions that may be automatically created directly from the Estimate. Requisitions may be trapped for threshold overage or internal policy exceptions, requiring management approval before processing can occur. Automatic currency conversion is also support. Pricing history per item is also tracked together with preferred vendor sourcing. Tiered Pricing will also automatically populate your purchase order when appropriate. Material receiving including back-order status is fully supported.
Inventory may be allocated to a particular project or a project’s work order for in-stock assurance when time for production or shipment. Procurement agents will have real-time visibility of Physical versus Available Quantity to avoid unnecessary purchasing causing needless cash flow and storage pressures.
Separate your Project into Phases and track each phase individually with a separate set of dates specific to that Phase. Set a Ship Date to when the customer wants your product on site, and then have your Cut Date or Mfg Date automatically calculated from the Ship Date letting you know when you need to start to meet your Schedule!
Product timelines are displayed in Gantt Chart fashion with drag and drop adjustment.
Production capacity thresholds may also be determined and tracked.
Capture real-time financial data for easy progress billing throughout each project. Complete real-time visibility between budget vs actual costings. Easily track change orders within each project.
View Material and Labor in drill-down fashion via Material Category and Labor Department with respective budgeted date linked directly from the Crows Nest or externally derived estimate.
View Remaining production hours over any span of time by work order status, by project, by individual work order. Alternatively view Revenue based activity over any span of time by work order status, by project, by individual work order.
With up to date labor consumption versus respective labor budget. Then adjust remaining work up or down accordingly to provide an accurate assessment of production progress.
Project Costing is available on a per work order basis, with percent complete including change orders that have been issued and approved or authorized.
Among the 300+ Reports available in Crows Nest
Real-time costs to date (material and labor) with remaining versus budget reporting. Built in integrations of material and labor transactions with your financial software such as Quick Books, Sage, and Zero.
Check Real-Time Inventory for line-item availability, Automatic Stock Replenishment. Bring minimum stock levels to preferred quantity. Inventory Material is allocated to a project to avoid unexpected stockouts. Every inventory transaction is audited and tracked for history tracking. Material received into inventory is traced by storage location for eventual Pick Ticket processing.
Increase your efficiency and productivity from work order creation and scheduling, through project completion and shipping.
Define and automatically select work order templates to ensure accurate business planning and shop routing. Break up large projects with easy-to-use and fully customizable Work Order templates.
Separate your Project into Phases and track each phase individually with a separate set of dates specific to that Phase. Set a Ship Date to when the customer wants your product on site, and then have your Cut Date or Mfg Date automatically calculated from the Ship Date letting you know when you need to start production to meet your Schedule!
Product timelines are displayed in Gantt Chart fashion with drag and drop adjustment.
Production capacity thresholds may also be determined and tracked.
View up-to-date labor consumption versus the respective labor budget. Then adjust the remaining work up or down accordingly to provide an accurate assessment of production progress.
Produce user-defined Markers that are visually updated within each work order from the timeclock entry reporting that the Marker’s respective shop operation has been completed. Create a Bar or QR code and scan it to update the production status on a work order.
View and track all work orders by work order status, project, work order milestone dates, percentage complete and many more options.
View and track all work orders by work order status, project, work order milestone dates, percentage complete, and many more options.
Crows Nest offers time collection on the shop floor and on the job site. The Windows-based Time Clock program allows users to clock into a project, project work order, project labor department, labor operation, and work order task. Alternatively, a user may simply use Bar-Code input for fast and accurate time capture., The Crows Nest Mobile App (Android and IOS) also may be used for time entries in the shop or out in the field.
Track project progress and delivery shipments with use of a bar code scanner. Manufacturers may track work-cell completion as work progresses through the shop. Completed items may be tracked as they leave the assembly area. Items may be scanned as they are loaded into a container or delivery vehicle as well as scanned when being off-loaded at the job site. Delivery manifests are accepted, signed, and tracked as part of the project history. Remote barcode scanning can be done with the mobile app available on Android and iOS.
Get everything you need for flawless installs on each of your projects, from our dynamic installation scheduling tool and site punch-list management to warranty documents and warranty date tracking.
Separate your Project into Installation Phases and track each phase individually with a separate set of dates specific to that Phase. Set an Installation Completion Date to the customer requirement and have your Installation Start Date automatically calculated based on the amount of work associated with the Installation Work Order.
Each Installation Work Order may be assigned a user defined Status with automatic visibility of all installation work orders currently in a selected status. Status may be quickly updated via drag and drop across the Crows Nest KanBan viewer.
Produce user defined Installation Markers that are visually updated within each Installation Work Order from the timeclock entry reporting that the Marker’s respective installation operation has been completed.
View and track all installation work orders by work order status, or installation milestone date based on percentage completions.
The Crows Nest Mobile App provides a punch-list creation reporting from the field or the shop with automatic Issue Type Task triggering for immediate repairs to occur.
Track all As-Built shop drawing against Target Date to Complete, Start Date, Due Date, Issue Date and Return date per each cycle of revisions with Revision History Tracking.
Track Warranty expiration dates which may be automatically calculated and assigned via Crows Nest Date Calculation engine.
Access important files, photos, and tasks while on-site with our mobile app. Simple one-click timeclock login and log out and communicate easily with the workshop through notes and notifications. Access and enable remote operations, data, and other vital project information.
Download the Crows Nest App from the Play Store or the Apple App Store. The App can be used out in the field or in the shop.
Field Labor Time Collection is captured through the mobile app with GPS coordinates that are compared against the project’s longitude and latitude data.
Mobile App purchase orders may be created right at the store using bar-code scanning on the store shelf with the purchase order being issued to the vendor for a quick turnaround back to the job site.
View any of the documents in the project’s folders while in the field through the Mobile app.
View and contact any of the project’s associated trades and their representatives such as name, email, phone numbers and addresses through the mobile app.
Use the Mobile App’s camera as your scanning device.
Take photos for automatic storage with the project’s Photo area through the Mobile App.
Use the Mobile App’s camera as your scanning device.
Easily navigate complex processes with our customizable solution.
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