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How Fishbowl Compares to NetSuite

Robert LockardJuly 22, 2020Leave a Comment
Fishbowl compares well to an ERP like NetSuite, Fishbowl Blog

While NetSuite is a full ERP and Fishbowl is an inventory management solution, Fishbowl nonetheless stacks up surprisingly well compared to NetSuite. You can see that comparison on the Fishbowl vs. NetSuite page. The chart briefly matches up the two solutions based on the following criteria:

  • Order Management
  • Procurement
  • Manufacturing
  • Bill of Materials
  • Warehouse Management
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Product Management
  • Reporting and Business Intelligence
  • Accounting Integration
  • Flexibility
  • Ease of Use
  • Price

Fishbowl and NetSuite are equally capable of accomplishing the first eight criteria, but Fishbowl outshines NetSuite in the final four. Keep in mind that some things are referred to by different names in each solution. For example, Fishbowl calls the assembly of new products manufacturing and NetSuite calls it production. Let’s go more in depth on each of these bullet points to specifically show their similarities and differences.

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Guide to Optimizing Your Warehouse Putaway Process in 2020

Jake RheudeJune 18, 2020Leave a Comment

Most companies don’t focus on the putaway process because it isn’t as obviously tied to revenue or business operations as fulfillment. That means lots of time and money spent on optimizing pick and pack, without thinking about how putaway prepares goods and teams to operate at their peak.

Putaway is an important part of warehouse management.

The initial placement of goods in your warehouse matters. When it’s done right, it makes every other process faster and easier. So, your goal for the second half of 2020 should be to optimize this putaway process to keep things running smoothly and potentially improve your margins. There are a few different options and requirements for it, but they all tend to pay off well.

Here, we’ll break down our optimization thoughts into three phases:

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In-House vs. Outsourced Fulfillment

Robert LockardSeptember 18, 2019Leave a Comment

This is a guest blog post written by Will Schneider with insightQuote.com

Fulfillment and shipping is a critical aspect of the supply chain function. From one-day deliveries to the increased desire for free shipping, customer expectations are driving companies to not only provide exceptional logistics services but also leverage the fulfillment function as a source of competitive advantage. These increasing demands are causing more and more companies to look outside their own warehouse walls to pursue 3PL outsourcing. In fact, 66 percent of companies use outsourcing, according to the Current State of 3PL Market 2016 Study.

The potential benefits of outsourcing are many – improved flexibility, quality, and responsiveness, access to new markets, increased speed to market, decreased customer response time, and decreased costs, not to mention time savings from not performing the function in-house. But is outsourced fulfillment the right solution for your business? In this article, we’ll walk you through the decision-making process to help you determine if this avenue is the right fit for your company.

Find out the difference between parts and products in inventory management, Fishbowl Blog

There are many factors to consider when deciding whether to keep the fulfillment side of your business in-house or whether you should outsource this part to another company. Before jumping into the financial aspects to see if cost savings will be achieved, it’s important to take a look at some key strategic reasons that might deter you from taking this course of action.

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Fishbowl Review

Robert LockardApril 27, 2019Leave a Comment
Reordering, receiving, and reconciling are much easier when you have more than a pen and paper, Fishbowl Blog

“Fishbowl may be a niche-filler, but it’s no weakling stopgap measure,” says Pam Baker in her review of Fishbowl on SmallBusinessComputing.com. “The popular inventory management add-on for QuickBooks does a commendable job keeping inventory assets in full view and on the move for small businesses.”

She does a great job covering Fishbowl’s features and explaining inventory management concepts, so I’ll let her do most of the talking in this blog post and throw in my two cents as needed.

Baker is a much more prolific writer than me. She’s written for newspapers like The New York Times and Knight Ridder, magazines like ComputerWorld and Institutional Investor, and websites like CIO.com. She’s been around the block, digitally speaking. So it’s no surprise that she has a lot of interesting things to say about Fishbowl.

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Finding the Best Inventory Management Solution

Robert LockardApril 27, 2019Leave a Comment
Buried money, Fishbowl Blog

In the blog post “The Quest for the Perfect Inventory Management Software,” we were hunting for the best solution to our inventory management needs. Now we’ll finish our search and talk about how to find the right solution, not just look for it.

There are two main criteria you should look at to find the best inventory management software: 1. what it does for you, and 2. what features you expect from it.

A great way to tell if inventory management software is right for you is if it produces the results you’re looking for. What are you looking for? Let’s talk about several things that should be high on your list.

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Everything You Want to Know About Using Fishbowl

Robert LockardApril 27, 2019Leave a Comment

We are going to discuss many of Fishbowl’s products, as well as their uses and training options. Fishbowl offers the #1 manufacturing and warehouse management solutions for QuickBooks, plus a variety of other solutions to help with additional aspects of business operations. Here’s a sneak peek:

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Answers to 5 Big Inventory Management Questions

Robert LockardApril 27, 2019Leave a Comment

Let’s answer five complex questions related to inventory management. Those questions are:

  • How do I manage a warehouse?
  • How do I track inventory in multiple locations?
  • How do I get the best value for my money with inventory control software?
  • What is the best way to manage inventory?
  • What results can I expect from using inventory management software?
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Purchase Order Module Hotkeys

Robert LockardApril 01, 2019Leave a Comment

We’ve talked about three modules in the previous weeks that only had a single hotkey in each one. But this week we will move on to the Purchase Order module, which has two hotkeys to help you create and receive purchase orders. (more…)

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RMA Module Hotkeys

Robert LockardFebruary 25, 2019Leave a Comment

Return Merchandise Authorizations are important tools that facilitate the return process. And you can make them even easier to put in place when you use these four hotkeys in Fishbowl’s RMA module. (more…)

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