With the help of LilyPad Applications’ new Mobile Warehouse product, Fishbowl customers can now scan 2D barcodes rather than just 1D barcodes. This is a big deal because it lets you do much more with your barcode scanners in a shorter amount of time. You can scan a single barcode and populate dozens of fields in Fishbowl at the same time.
To understand how this works, let’s first talk about the difference between 1D and 2D barcodes. (more…)
As part of your business process management, inventory management sounds like a simple enough concept… you reorder inventory before you run out. But the actual practice is more complicated than it sounds.
Inventory can be a company’s biggest asset, and thus, the biggest asset expense. Poorly managed, and a company can go out of business. Inventory ties up a lot of cash so you need to optimize the expense by carrying enough to satisfy demand, but not so much that your investment sits, potentially becoming stale, outdated or obsolete.
Let’s look at five ways to improve your inventory management so that you can balance your needs and find that sweet spot that’s perfect for your organization. (more…)
A simple and more efficient inventory management system will help turn an already-successful business into a profit machine regardless of the amount or type of goods being sold. A better-managed inventory system will also assist in giving customers a more than satisfactory level of service, which will help ensure repeat business.
Here are four solid ways to go about doing it. (more…)
Amazon, eBay, Dropbox, Etsy, UPS, FedEx, QuickBooks Online, Xero, and Salesforce are just a few of the dozens of online and desktop solutions Fishbowl integrates with.
Here are Fishbowl’s 56 software integrations, separated into 11 categories and listed alphabetically. Visit the Fishbowl Integrations page, and also click on the other links found in this post to learn more about them. (more…)
Modern business practically requires a UPC tracking system. Barcodes and scanners speed up numerous business processes, including ordering, receiving, picking, and selling products. They also ensure the accuracy of inventory records, preventing errors from creeping into the data.
So let’s talk about the implementation of a UPC tracking system in a business. (more…)
We’re back for another big helping of Fishbowl reports. In the last few weeks, we’ve covered 24 reports, ranging from barcode printing to manufacture order summaries.
Fishbowl’s reports are designed to help with many aspects of inventory management, including picking, cycle counting, rotating inventory, complying with government regulations, and more.
Let’s see what we have in store this week by delving into eight more useful reports: (more…)
Last week I talked about 12 of the more than 30 reports available on the Fishbowl Store. Let’s keep going and list off another dozen reports that you can purchase and use in your business.
These reports have a lot of unique functions. This week’s ones are mainly focused on barcode generation and printing. (more…)
We’ve answered quite a few questions in these Whiteboard Wednesday videos, explaining what QuickBooks, Magento, and Dropbox (among others) are. This time we’re going to find out what a barcode scanner is and what it does. (more…)
Discussions about technology and the workplace often revolve around topics such as e-commerce, social media, and mobile apps. However, technology is also making rapid advances within the industrial and warehouse workplaces. Here are six useful technological advances that are improving industrial companies. (more…)
Professor Hans von Puppet is here to lay down the law about cycle counting. He doesn’t like to see companies waste their time counting their inventory over and over again when a simple cycle count would suffice.
Fishbowl facilitates cycle counting by letting you: (more…)
