RM Foods, a nearly 50-year-old food and beverage manufacturer and distributor, has grown from a supplier to restaurants, El Torito and Acapulco, to a much larger customer base that now includes retailers and bigbox stores such as Trader Joe’s, Costco, Sam’s Club and Whole Foods. With 300 employees operating from three locations, RM Foods maintains a bustling operation, which required a flexible ERP system able to support an expanding, complex business.

The company implemented Sage ERP X3 when it became apparent to the RM Foods management team that the company had outgrown its accounting application. “Our old system made even routine tasks cumbersome, so it was easier to outsource them,” explains Michael Siegmund, president of RM Foods. “The old software was poor at handling our accounting tasks and was incapable of addressing our manufacturing requirements.