Case Study: American Crane & Equipment Corporation achieves real-time, accurate job costing and operational visibility with Jobscope

Crane Manufacturing Software Provides Visibility of Operational Performance for Crane Industry Leader

American Crane & Equipment Corporation (ACECO), a family‑held international designer and manufacturer of engineer‑to‑order electric overhead cranes and hoists, faced a dated DOS-based ERP that could not produce usable data or flexible reports. The legacy system forced heavy manual Excel work, led to inaccurate job costing and lacked real‑time cost visibility—critical shortcomings for ACECO’s complex ETO projects—so the company selected Jobscope’s JOBSCOPE Crane ERP software to replace the legacy system.

Jobscope implemented its JOBSCOPE crane manufacturing solution across estimating, engineering, purchasing, inventory, production control and accounting for more than 40 daily users at American Crane & Equipment Corporation. The system provides real‑time, accurate job costing and reporting, enables barcode scanning and BOM control for received parts, improves inventory visibility and vendor tracking, and cut plant shutdown time for inventory counts from one week to two days; ACECO can now lock costs at job completion and generate detailed GL and departmental reports for better cost control.

American Crane & Equipment Corporation

Karen Norheim

Vice President