Tag: Product Shipping

Choosing the Best Shipping Strategy for Your Online Store

Jessica PerkinsJanuary 19, 2022
Choosing the best shipping strategy for your online store, Fishbowl Blog

A lot of brands take a simplistic approach to shipping, especially when they start. Adding ecommerce staples like free shipping options, package insurance, and tracking may help your business stay alive. But without prior planning, these inclusions could burn a hole in your pocket.

Putting an effective ecommerce shipping strategy in place is one of the most important steps for growing your business online. Yet it requires coordination between multiple organizations.

In this guide, we’ll help you develop the best shipping strategy for your online business.

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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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Shipping Module Hotkeys

Robert LockardFebruary 18, 2019Leave a Comment

The Shipping module allows you to pack products into cartons and ship them to your customers. And Fishbowl hotkeys allow you to do both of those things even faster. You can even add new cartons into the system for later use. You’ll find all of the hotkeys for this module here: (more…)

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Transfer Order Module Hotkeys

Robert LockardJanuary 07, 2019Leave a Comment

You can open a couple of helpful wizards in the Transfer Order module with these two Fishbowl hotkeys. Check them out and see if they might just be what you have been looking for when creating transfer orders. (more…)

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Setting Up the Carrier Module

Robert LockardAugust 31, 2018Leave a Comment

The Carrier module shows you a list of all of the carriers and their respective shipping services that you currently have available to use when processing orders in Fishbowl. (more…)

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Supply Chain Management Articles

Robert LockardAugust 27, 2018Leave a Comment

Supply chain management articles, Fishbowl BlogSupply 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…)

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How to Manage Warehouse Supply Shipments

Rachelle WilberJuly 31, 2018Leave a Comment

Managing a warehouse can be a complex job if you don’t have the right tools. Most likely, there are large quantities of items that need to be tracked. Here are some of the tools that can assist you with your warehouse supply shipments. (more…)

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How to Prepare Your Warehouse for Deliveries

Rachelle WilberJune 27, 2018Leave a Comment

Deliveries are par for the course in warehouses all over the world. Warehouses receive shipments all the time. If you want your warehouse to operate smoothly and efficiently, then you have to prepare carefully for all kinds of deliveries. Lack of preparation can lead to chaos and confusion. It can sometimes even result in parcels getting lost. (more…)

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Navigating the Shipping Module

Robert LockardApril 13, 2018Leave a Comment

Lower the costs of your warehouse-to-warehouse shipping, Fishbowl BlogLast week we covered how to pick items to fulfill orders, and that naturally leads into this week’s topic: the Shipping module. After all, picking, packing, and shipping go together like snap, crackle, and pop.

You can use this module to pack and ship items that you’ve previously picked. And there are a few other functions that we’ll get into as we explore the Shipping module. (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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