When Jennifer Engel and her husband purchased the business in 2008, Advanced T rim & Kitchens was already using Sage 500 ERP. Coupled with a change in ownership came changes to the business itself and the type of work the company focused on. “Our operations and manufacturing processes used to be much more complex. But we’ve since simplified the type of millwork, assembly, and finishing that we do,” says Jenn. So when it came time to update Sage 500, Jenn points out that the software had become overkill for their needs. She says, “We couldn’t upgrade without spending a lot of money on a system that we weren’t fully utilizing. With the changes in our business, we no longer needed the advanced manufacturing features and process complexity in Sage 500.” Trimming the Fat That’s when Advanc

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