Category: inventory control

5 Innovative Ways to Cope with Skyrocketing Commodity Costs

Robert LockardJune 01, 2021Leave a Comment
Commodity costs are rising extremely high, Fishbowl Blog

The price of practically everything is on the rise.1 That hardly does our situation justice. It’s more honest to say that commodity costs are already through the roof, and both businesses and consumers are beginning to face this harsh reality. Don’t expect prices to come down anytime soon. Instead, plan ahead to manage skyrocketing commodity costs by making these five seemingly simple yet innovative changes to your business.

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Fishbowl Offers Mobility When You Need It

Robert LockardApril 13, 2021Leave a Comment
Fishbowl's mobile inventory control offers mobility when you need it, Fishbowl Blog

Mobile inventory control1 is exactly what small and medium-size businesses need to succeed in this challenging economic environment. Imagine enjoying mobile access to crucial inventory data, speedier inventory tasks, increasingly efficient warehouse workers, and no more double data entry. These are a few of the benefits of having mobility when you need it in the warehouse. We’ll talk more about those benefits and how you can start using mobile inventory control in your warehouse with the aid of Fishbowl and its app, Fishbowl Go.

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Get True Inventory Control to Energize Your Business

Robert LockardMarch 31, 2021Leave a Comment
True inventory control energizes your business, Fishbowl Blog

Fishbowl is a true inventory control solution, which gives you advanced features to control many aspects1 of your business. Those aspects include your inventory, manufacturing, orders, and costs. Let’s talk about some of the specific features Fishbowl offers to help you take control of these critical components of your growing company. You might be surprised at the expansive benefits you’ll enjoy by implementing the following functionality.

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True Inventory Control Is the Cure for Warehouse Headaches

Robert LockardMarch 25, 2021Leave a Comment
True inventory control cures warehouse headaches, Fishbowl Blog

What is true inventory control? It means you have all the necessary tools and training to accurately count, receive, reorder, and predict your inventory1 in one warehouse or multiple locations. Fishbowl offers true inventory control, which empowers you to bid farewell to Excel spreadsheets, stockouts, hand counts, and other headaches associated with manual inventory control. This frees you to say hello to increased automation and cost savings.

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Your Guide to Writing a Proper Inventory Report

Grace CarterAugust 29, 2018Leave a Comment

Your guide to writing a proper inventory report, Fishbowl BlogAn inventory report is a summary and description of all the items owned by a business, organization, or landlord. The reason for creating an inventory report is to provide an account of the supply and condition of items owned. An inventory report can be used by businesses, by residents when moving out of a house, by a landlord before new tenants move in, or to provide details for legal proceedings. These documents should be clearly written, easy to understand, and thorough. (more…)

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Touring the Transfer Order Module

Robert LockardMarch 09, 2018Leave a Comment

In the Transfer Order module, you can ship and otherwise move items between warehouses and other locations. It’s also fairly simple to replenish part quantities by transferring items from one location that has an abundance of them to another location where they are in short supply. We’ll cover this in greater depth below. (more…)

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What’s in Your Stocking?

Robert LockardDecember 25, 2017Leave a Comment

IWhat's in your stocking? Fishbowl Blogt’s Christmas Day, and you know what that means? Presents! As kids, we would excitedly run downstairs and wonder what’s in our stocking on Christmas morning.

Now that we’re grownups, it’s a good idea to ask it once again. What’s in your stocking? If you have a warehouse it must feel like Christmas every day of the year because that is a question you have to ask yourself so frequently. (more…)

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Manual vs. Automatic Reports

Robert LockardNovember 06, 2017Leave a Comment

Ah, reports. They help you make sense of unwieldy amounts of data that would otherwise be practically incomprehensible. And we’re going to report on the differences between manually and automatically generating reports on inventory data. (more…)

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How to Measure Your Inventory Performance

Robert LockardJune 20, 2017Leave a Comment

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…)

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How to Classify Your Inventory

Robert LockardJune 13, 2017Leave a Comment

Use Boxstorm's Advanced Search feature to filter data in its modules, Fishbowl BlogHow 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…)

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