An inefficient shipping process or inadequate product storage solution can end up costing much more than many organizations might expect. Businesses seeking ways to curb their spending and keep overhead costs from getting out of hand would do well to reassess their current shipping methods and examine their storage policies. The following list serves to highlight some of the most common situations where waste and inefficiency may end up creating unnecessary financial strain. (more…)
Supply chain management is an important component of tracking inventory, and you will find a lot of valuable information on this topic in these articles. Plus, the Supply Chain Management category is unique among all of the other categories because it contains a number of essays from college students who submitted their work on the topic of U.S. manufacturing and supply chains. They are clearly marked as such below.
If you are curious about supply chain management topics, this is the place to be: (more…)
Robert Lockard is a copywriter with Fishbowl. He writes for several blogs about inventory management, manufacturing, QuickBooks, and small business. Fishbowl is the #1-requested manufacturing and warehouse management software for QuickBooks users. Robert enjoys running, reading, writing, spending time with his wife and children, and watching movies.
Breaking into any industry can be hard. We are finding more and more competitive job markets in which the supply for a particular position is higher than the demand. As industries get settled, and business operations are set in their ways, the opportunity to start a career becomes virtually impossible, according to World.edu.
The shipping industry has been one of these traditional industries. It has been established for so long that its operations and daily processes have become antiquated. However, with technological advancements, the shipping industry is on the cusp of a major overhaul. New ways of just about every sector of shipping processes are going to look considerably different, and with these new changes will come a whole new wave of career options.
So, what skills do you need to be armed with to get into this industry that is on the brink of expansive growth? Read below to see how the future of the shipping industry will help students in their career choices. (more…)
Bio: Avery T. Phillips is a freelance human being with too much to say. She loves nature and examining human interactions with the world, especially when it comes to business, tech, and workplace safety. Comment or reach out @A_Taylorian with any questions or suggestions.
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…)
Robert Lockard is a copywriter with Fishbowl. He writes for several blogs about inventory management, manufacturing, QuickBooks, and small business. Fishbowl is the #1-requested manufacturing and warehouse management software for QuickBooks users. Robert enjoys running, reading, writing, spending time with his wife and children, and watching movies.
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…)
Robert Lockard is a copywriter with Fishbowl. He writes for several blogs about inventory management, manufacturing, QuickBooks, and small business. Fishbowl is the #1-requested manufacturing and warehouse management software for QuickBooks users. Robert enjoys running, reading, writing, spending time with his wife and children, and watching movies.
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…)
Robert Lockard is a copywriter with Fishbowl. He writes for several blogs about inventory management, manufacturing, QuickBooks, and small business. Fishbowl is the #1-requested manufacturing and warehouse management software for QuickBooks users. Robert enjoys running, reading, writing, spending time with his wife and children, and watching movies.
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…)
Robert Lockard is a copywriter with Fishbowl. He writes for several blogs about inventory management, manufacturing, QuickBooks, and small business. Fishbowl is the #1-requested manufacturing and warehouse management software for QuickBooks users. Robert enjoys running, reading, writing, spending time with his wife and children, and watching movies.
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…)
Robert Lockard is a copywriter with Fishbowl. He writes for several blogs about inventory management, manufacturing, QuickBooks, and small business. Fishbowl is the #1-requested manufacturing and warehouse management software for QuickBooks users. Robert enjoys running, reading, writing, spending time with his wife and children, and watching movies.
