Real-time Inventory
Real-time inventory management is the foundation of your business
Reliable up-to-the-minute stock visibility instills peace of mind across your operations. Make critical business decisions with confidence for optimal warehouse management, purchasing, manufacturing, sales, and accounting functions.
Real-time Visibility
Keep on hand only what you need
Space is at a premium for many businesses. With real-time visibility into your stock quantities, you can purchase inventory you actually need. Replace deadstock with in-demand items and cycle through inventory with a clear understanding of what customers are ordering.
Real-time Sales
Put products in front of customers with vital inventory visibility
Real-time inventory management software helps you pick, pack, and ready orders for shipment with confidence you're delivering to customers what's promised. Gone are the days of cancelling orders due to an inability to fill them.
Accurate inventory visibility allows you to offer added value to customers, through Fishbowl features, like:
The kitting, or bundling, feature allows you to offer related products to customers with custom pricing rules. Are your customers more likely to buy a whoosit when they’re already buying a whatsit? Fishbowl allows you to bundle them at the point of sale, streamlining the transaction process for the customer and setting your warehouse staff up for picking and packing success.
When product availability limits what you can sell, offering alternatives to customers keeps them from walking away empty handed. The substitute product feature puts more options in front of those customers who are most eager to buy.
Do you manufacture products with options for customization, like color, size, and add-ons? Product options and variance features allow you to track and manage your inventory based on the options you serve up to your customers.
Real-time Accounting
QuickBooks-connected inventory makes cash flow predictions possible
Integrating QuickBooks with Fishbowl automatically connects data from inventory-related activities to your accounting records, giving you a view into how your inventory directly affects your cash flow.
Integrated, actionable data directly influences purchasing decisions, like forecasting inventory needs and calculating landed costs, including ancillary costs like shipping, taxes, and other fees. The ability to calculate the true cost of your inventory and automatically update your accounting platform makes reconciliation and financial planning far more manageable.
Case Study
Cost-effective customization made all the difference
- Better reach and service to customers with multiple locations
- Significant reduction in quote time and pricing errors
- Achieved 100% on-time delivery of forward orders, while keeping inventories at economic levels
- Now maintains a 95% fill rate of all catalog items
- Improved efficiencies with no head count increase, despite double-digit growth in two consecutive years
Real-time inventory management from a real-time Fishbowl expert.
