Compare Broadside vs. Planning Ops

Broadside is innovative crew scheduling software specifically designed for construction subcontractors, enabling them to manage crews across various projects efficiently. It features a dynamic live look-ahead board for both jobs and crew leaders, allowing schedules to be projected from three weeks up to a full year in advance. Users have the capability to assign crew leaders on a daily basis, adjust job timelines in response to scheduling shifts, and identify issues such as double bookings, unstaffed days, idle crews, and instances when work exceeds the available workforce capacity. Additionally, workforce views present a comparison of weekly labor demands by role against the existing staff, aiding subcontractors in pinpointing potential shortages or overbookings before the work commences. The platform allows multiple users to edit the same scheduling plan simultaneously, while also permitting viewers to access the information without the need for a paid account. Broadside supports a wide range of trades including grading, paving, underground utilities, excavation, electrical, mechanical, plumbing, drywall, and concrete. With its emphasis on advance crew planning, it stands apart from traditional methods that focus on daily dispatch, truck routing, ticketing, or timecard management, thus streamlining the overall scheduling process for construction projects. This comprehensive approach ultimately enhances productivity and coordination among subcontractors in the construction industry.

Planning Ops is built for concrete subcontractors who run pours, crews and field paperwork. One login covers four modules. Place & Finish is a drag-and-drop pour board with each job's weather, cubic-yard totals, a 90-day rolling Lookahead, and an alert when a crew or a pump is booked on two jobs the same day. Confirming a pour sends one email to the job's contacts, the crew lead and the pump company, and a move sends the new date. Manpower plans crews 52 weeks out, shows the weeks you are short or over, tracks hours by man and job with ST/OT/DT, exports to 13 payroll formats including ADP, Paychex, QuickBooks and Sage, and flags certifications due inside 90 days. Project Schedule draws phases, milestones and crew per week, and prints an 11x17 for the GC. Daily Reports gives foremen a signed, numbered report with weather, crew, delays and photos on a tablet or phone, emailed as a branded PDF, with crew hours posting to time tracking. T&M tickets get the GC's signature on the device. Works in the US, Canada and the UK, with an iPhone and iPad app. $149/month includes 3 working seats; read-only viewers are free.