Inventory performance metrics are essential to your business. They help you measure how well you are doing at managing your inventory. Here are three major ones you need to know to equalize your inventory levels in the long term. (more…)
Author: Robert Lockard
Fishbowl Integrates with Volusion
Volusion is an excellent ecommerce solution, and it syncs with Fishbowl’s product listings (including pictures, quantities, and descriptions). Once a customer places an order online, Volusion sends it to Fishbowl for fulfillment. Shipping and tracking information is quickly generated and communicated between the two solutions.
There’s a bit more to this integration, so let’s delve into it: (more…)
How to Classify Your Inventory
How do you classify all of the parts and products in your inventory? It’s important to come up with a good inventory classification system because this helps you keep everything well-organized.
Choose between these four inventory classification systems to ensure your products don’t get mixed up. (more…)
Fishbowl Integrates with UPS
Fishbowl has UPS shipping features built right into its interface. This allows you to instantly send shipment notices to UPS for pickup, compare shipping prices, print labels, and email packing lists to customers without having to leave Fishbowl and open a separate Web browser.
This is a fantastic integration that saves time and makes the order fulfillment process easier in a number of ways: (more…)
How to Save a Startup
Fishbowl CEO David K. Williams is back on the air, this time appearing on the SalesFounders podcast. Spend the next 41 minutes (or 27 minutes if you play it at 1.5x speed) listening to his valuable insights into entrepreneurship and the specific steps he took to save a struggling startup and turn it into an industry leader. Click the link above to listen to the podcast.
It’s amazing how down to earth and conversational he is when you hear him speak. In this podcast, Williams explains: (more…)
The 3 Main Inventory Management Systems
When it comes to managing inventory, there are three main ways to do it:
- On paper.
- With Excel spreadsheets.
- Using inventory management software.
Each one has its own pros and cons, so let’s analyze them so you can see which one is best for your business. (more…)
Fishbowl Integrates with the United States Postal Service
The United States Postal Service is, of course, one of the biggest providers of mail delivery for U.S. companies. You can upload and share your orders in Fishbowl with USPS and then print shipping labels and more. You’ll also receive confirmation and tracking data in Fishbowl from USPS.
Let’s get right into what this integration does for you: (more…)
5 Ways to Evaluate Your Inventory
This isn’t the first time I’ve talked about FIFO, LIFO, etc. on the Fishbowl Blog. But these are extremely important concepts that deserve to be addressed again because they are so essential when it comes to evaluating your inventory.
Without further ado, here are the five main ways to evaluate your inventory: (more…)
Fishbowl Integrates with Unitech
Unitech manufactures high-quality barcode scanners and other equipment to use in warehouses and other parts of a business. Fishbowl offers an app that works well on these devices, allowing your employees to perform complex inventory management tasks quickly and efficiently.
There’s a lot to cover on the topic of this integration, so let’s get started: (more…)
Software Advice: Fishbowl Leads the Pack in Inventory Management Software
Software Advice recently included Fishbowl on its scale of FrontRunners in the inventory management software industry. Not only that, but it is apparent that Fishbowl is the leader of the pack among all of the solutions they included on their graph. Fishbowl scored the highest value score and it’s also among the top three on its capability score. When you put those two scores together, they put Fishbowl far above the nearest competition.
There are four quadrants on the April 2017 FrontRunners graph: (more…)