Bid to billing, in one system.

Brontes is software for structural steel fabricators. Bids, estimates, projects, purchasing, the shop floor, shipping and the field all work from the same job, so nothing gets typed twice.

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Brontes, Structural Steel ERP

Price the job before bid day.

Bring in your takeoff, price connections and labor with your own codes, and get vendor prices on the material before the bid goes out. What comes out is a proposal you can send.

Estimate material combined by shape and grade, with bar counts and waste
Material for a sample job, combined by shape and grade.

Know where every piece is.

Load the detailer's model and every piece gets a route through your stations. See what's at the saw, what's on hold and what's ready to ship.

Assemblies on a shop job, each with its parts and bolts listed under it, with route and current station
Assemblies on a sample job, each with its parts and bolts underneath.

Get more out of every bar.

Combine parts onto your stock lengths, see each bar drawn to scale before it's cut, and send a usable drop back to stock.

A cut list with each stock bar drawn to scale: the pieces cut from it and the drop left over
A sample cut list, each bar laid out to scale.

Nest plate on your sheet sizes.

Plates are grouped by grade and thickness and nested on the sheets you buy. Drag a part to adjust the layout, then export the sheet for the burn table.

Thirteen plates nested on an 8 by 4 foot sheet, the leftover kept as one full-width strip
A sample nest on an 8 × 4 ft sheet, proven best: the leftover stays one full-width 8 × 1 ft drop.

See what's up on site.

Crews mark pieces erected, file daily reports and clock their time from the job site. The office sees progress as it happens.

Field erection screen showing pieces marked erected, with time and erector
Erection progress on a sample job.

Every part of the job

Bids and CRM
Every invitation, customer and follow-up in one place.
Estimating
From the takeoff to a priced proposal.
Projects
Drawings, submittals, transmittals, RFIs and change orders.
Customer portal
One link where your customer sees what you've sent.
Purchasing and inventory
Buy what the job needs and know where it is.
Cut lists
Combine material across jobs and cut with less waste.
Shop floor
Routes, stations and progress, piece by piece.
Shipping
Know what went out on which truck.
Field
Crews, daily reports and time.
Accounting and reports
Cost codes, billing and the numbers on every job.
3D model
See the model and where each piece stands.
Exports
PDF, Excel and XML when something has to go out.

Plans

Core
Contact for pricing
Production
Contact for pricing
Enterprise
Contact for pricing
About plans and seats

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