Crown Sign Systems:
three systems became one.
Crown designs, manufactures, and installs architectural signage and wayfinding out of Mount Vernon, NY. Their operations ran across three disconnected platforms — Job Shop ERP for manufacturing, Monday.com for projects, QuickBooks for accounting. Over twelve months we ran discovery, recommended the platform, implemented 10 Odoo modules with a live test environment the whole way, and migrated all three systems into one — with a custom sign estimator no off-the-shelf ERP could give them.
Manufacturing, projects, and accounting on three segmented platforms — consolidated information "took too much time to be useful."
In their Controller’s words: consolidating information across the three platforms “simply took too much time for it to be useful.” Estimating custom signs — different types, materials, templates — lived outside any system. Purchasing wrestled with unit-of-measure conversions and wastage on every vendor PO. And construction-industry progressive billing didn’t fit anything off the shelf.
- 1Three segmented platformsManufacturing, projects, and accounting never in one place — every consolidated view was manual.
- 2Manual sign estimationCustom sign building from templates had no system path to a sales order.
- 3Reporting too slow to use“Took too much time to consolidate for it to be useful” — the Controller, verbatim.
- 4UOM & wastage purchasingUnit conversions and material wastage managed by hand on vendor POs and production planning.
One platform, one record — from estimate to install.
Discovery first — survey the operation, map current state to desired state, recommend the platform. Then implementation at 2-3 working sessions a week with a live test environment from day one: “we were not just discussing options in theory — we had hands-on access to solutions as they were implemented.” UAT across every module, then a three-platform data migration into one system of record.
- 10 Odoo modules in production — CRM, Projects, HR, Sales/Invoicing, Purchase, Inventory, Manufacturing, Quality, Accounting, Expense
- Custom Estimator Widget — template-driven sign building by type and material, flowing straight to sales-order generation · Purchase Conversion Widget for UOM + wastage
- Automated PO / MO / Work Order generation from SO confirmation · construction-specific progressive billing · project rollup centralizing contract-to-delivery · live dashboards · 3-platform data migration
Under the hood. Built on: Odoo · 10 modules, Custom Estimator Widget, Progressive billing, Auto PO/MO/WO routing. Job Shop ERP, Monday.com, and QuickBooks fully retired — data from all three migrated into a single Odoo environment. Detailed routing and operation configurations drive automated purchase orders, manufacturing orders, and work orders from a single sales-order confirmation. Phase 2 (Field Service) scoped during implementation.
The information that was too slow to be useful is now the dashboard the business runs on.
One ERP replacing three applications · 5.0 verified across every Clutch category · Phase 2 planned.