Receive Goods
Efficiently Receive Shipments, Handle Product Returns, and Avoid Stockouts with Fishbowl
Receiving shipments of inventory into your warehouse is much easier with a barcode scanner, inventory management app, warehouse management software, and other tools provided by Fishbowl. Make the receiving and putaway process faster and more accurate with Fishbowl’s help.
Streamline Your Warehouse Operations with Fishbowl's Advanced Tools
Receive goods quickly and accurately
Scan barcodes and use other advanced inventory tools to receive incoming shipments in the warehouse.
Receive goods quickly and accurately
Seamless accounting integration
Optimize supply chains, warehouse quantities, and more with a warehouse app.
Seamless accounting integration
Optimize putaway process
Ensure quick and accurate putaway of received inventory.
Optimize putaway process
04 | Enhance supply chain management
Optimize supply chains, warehouse quantities, and more with a warehouse app
Download the Fishbowl Advanced™ Mobile app onto any Android or Apple smartphone/tablet to scan barcodes and track inventory in a single warehouse or across multiple warehouses. This app enables you to quickly and accurately scan inventory items into your inventory management system. Simply scan an item’s barcode and enter the quantity being received. This will automatically adjust the inventory count in your inventory management software. You can also order more items from suppliers and get quotes from shippers to ensure quick fulfillment.
Simplify warehouse layout with kits
Use kits and other warehouse management tools to streamline and optimize your warehouse setup.
Simplify warehouse layout with kits
Calculate landed costs with precision
Calculate the actual cost of incoming goods with the help of landed costs and other advanced reconciliation tools.
Calculate landed costs with precision
Streamline returns with RMA
Use RMAs to accept inventory returns from customers.
Streamline returns with RMA
08 | Ensure accurate order reconciliation
Use landed costs and reconciliation to adjust purchase orders
The receiving process isn’t always as smooth as scanning inventory items in and putting them away in your warehouse. At times, the invoice won’t match the purchase order. The vendor may accidentally put too many or too few goods in a shipping carton, or the vendor might charge a different price for each unit than you agreed to pay when you created the purchase order. If the total cost on the invoice you receive is different than the amount of money on the purchase order you issued, you’ve got a problem. That is what reconciliation is for.
09 | Additional RMA Uses
Receive, replace, repair, substitute, and refund inventory
With a good warehouse management system, you can use RMAs to receive incoming shipments in your warehouse, replace pristine products, inspect and repair damaged products, ship substitute goods to customers, and/or refund purchase amounts. If you wind up with too much inventory in your warehouse because of returns, it can result in dead stock. There are ways to deal with dead stock, such as offering it at a discount or pairing it with a popular item in a kit.
Case Study
Boxes R Us
Big cost savings and cash flow maximization as a result of improving their inventory management
- Automated order fulfillment and drastically improved their inventory tracking and receiving processes
- Analyzed sales trends to identify high-performing products and adjust their warehouse layout
- Reduced storing and handling expenses in the warehouse, increased sales, and improved cash flow
- Cut unnecessary inventory expenses by $60,000 in the first 12 months
- Embraced inventory tracking technology to ensure the best products are ordered and received in their warehouse
