The Picking module is where you go to (what else?) pick orders. It allows you to see which sales orders, work orders, transfer orders, and credit return purchase orders are ready to be picked and which ones have parts that are too low to be properly picked at this time. You can print pick tickets, commit inventory, and finish the picking process from this module. (more…)
The Sales Order module is the first module in the Sales group. You can use it to generate sales orders, credit returns, and drop ship orders, as well as fulfill those orders, receive payments from customers, create invoices, and edit sales orders in a number of ways. We’ll get into all of that in greater detail. (more…)
Streamlining your inventory and making sure it is well managed can be challenging and complicated, especially if your wholesale business is growing quickly. As more retail orders come in, stock levels start requiring religious monitoring. In times like these, managing your inventory using pen and paper (or even spreadsheets) just doesn’t cut it anymore. You need to come up with other ways to streamline your inventory management without it being a drain on your resources.
Of course, the best solution is to use the right technology, like cloud-based online inventory management software, that will enable you to keep track of your stock and provide you with real-time inventory updates. But did you know that the way you manage your orders is also super important?
How you handle your ongoing and upcoming orders can help you achieve an inventory system that runs smoothly. Good order management lets you predict your future demand, gives you better visibility over your stock, and provides you with a bigger picture of your sales trends. (more…)
Inventory management of the near- and far-future won’t look anything like it does today. Technology hasn’t just made us faster at producing the things we need — it’s helped us bring down waste, error, and uncertainty in ways that make us better equipped than ever for a quickly changing world.
In 2018, we’ll see the continued march of progress and even new ways of thinking in inventory management and throughout the supply chain. Some of the six trends below might be familiar to you, but hopefully all of them get you excited about what the future holds for this space. (more…)
Ordering products is what you do to keep them in stock. Maintaining equilibrium in your inventory quantities is a big challenge that you can handle with a manual or automatic order management system. Let’s discuss these two options’ strengths and weaknesses in order to decide which one is ideal. (more…)
More than a year ago, in the 800th blog post on the Fishbowl Blog, I shared a list of Fishbowl’s integrations with software and hardware solutions. This list is not meant to be completely all-encompassing for all time. You can bet Fishbowl will continue to add new ones as it grows and expands into other areas.
After all, the more connected you can make all of your solutions, the better off your business will be. You’ll be able to:
Now that I have made good on my promise to go in depth on every single one of these integrations, it is time to share links to all of the amazing Web pages Fishbowl has for each of these integrations. Check them out! (more…)
Order fulfillment includes picking, packing, and shipping products to customers. There’s a manual way and an automatic way to handle order fulfillment, and we’re going to go see which one delivers the right results for your company. (more…)
We started this blog series more than a year ago with Amazon’s shopping cart and now we’re ending it with another shopping cart called Zen Cart. From A to Z. It’s been quite a journey. Let’s jump right into it and finish this puppy!
Zen Cart is an ecommerce solution, and it utilizes the product listings, pictures, quantities, and descriptions from Fishbowl. Orders placed in Zen Cart’s shopping cart are downloaded into Fishbowl, which generates shipping and tracking information and handles the fulfillment process.
And now we’ll talk more about this integration: (more…)
Xero is a cloud-based accounting solution for small and midsize businesses. Fishbowl integrates with Xero, giving you a complete manufacturing and warehouse management system that works in conjunction with your accounting solution to ensure you always have the correct invoices, ledger entries, and other documentation you need.
Here are the many details of this integration between Fishbowl and Xero: (more…)
X-Cart’s PHP ecommerce solution has an open source code, which makes it possible to integrate it with a variety of merchant services or payment gateways. X-Cart integrates with Fishbowl, allowing companies to synchronize their inventory and ecommerce systems together to speed up the order fulfillment process.
Let’s dig down a bit more into this integration: (more…)
