Barr Lumber Company, Inc.

Warm and sunny California is home to Barr Lumber Company. Barr was first established in 1903 by O.H. Barr. Since that time Barr Lumber has been on the move. They have purchased more that 20 lumber yards over the years. Selling or consolidating these yards, their current seven locations represent almost 40 acres of lumber yards and 85,000 square feet of store space. While more than 55 of the competitors have not survived the last seven years, Barr lumber's adaptive responses to the extreme changes in the market conditions of the Los Angeles basin have allowed them to thrive in an otherwise hostile environment. As a result, they have established a well-known and respected reputation in the lumber and hardware industry.

In 1995, the search began for a software package that would combine the three different packages they were using. Their continuing growth demanded more efficiency, and Advantage became the package of choice. The ability to use a fully-integrated package that flowed from the beginning of the transaction through to the General Ledger, enabled them to eliminate many labor hours of redundant work. Initially, they used that labor toward internal audits and were able to isolate procedural issues that had gone undetected. As those areas were resolved, they were able to reduce their supporting staff. Since they use nearly every module of the Advantage package, they top the charts in the demand they place on the Advantage system and have been a driving force in software's development in past years.