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Fishbowl Inventory vs. Fourth Procurement and Inventory

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Fishbowl Inventory

    Score7.9 out of 10
    N/AFishbowl Advanced is the company's on-premises inventory tracking, warehousing, and manufacturing solution with hosted capabilities, offering real-time inventory visibility and control across all locations and order fulfillment for physical warehouses, on-the-go inventory, 3PL, or drop shipping.N/A

    Fourth Procurement and Inventory

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AFourth Procurement and Inventory is software that ties together procurement, 3-way matching, inventory and recipe control. It’s fully integrated, mobile-friendly and can be accessed with a single login. Using predicted sales functionality and analytics, it lets the user forecast demand more accurately.N/A
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    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    User Ratings
    Fishbowl InventoryFourth Procurement and Inventory
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.1
    (5 ratings)
    7.4
    (4 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.5
    (4 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Fishbowl InventoryFourth Procurement and Inventory
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Fishbowl
    Fishbowl is well suited for warehouse operations because you can control, monitor, report or view the progress of materials all the way from purchasing and receiving to the shipment and tracking of products. It integrates with major carriers and with QuickBooks so it does offer a suite that can support the entire operation. It allows for workflow monitoring, so particular groups or products can be tracked.
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    HotSchedules and Fourth
    The product is user-friendly in automating the tasks, managing the master data through central purchasing, and creating custom reports. It lacks certain basic functionalities like a record of wastages, sending automated emails confirming if the automatic tasks (scheduled tasks) have been completed or not, and the ability to automate the nutrition information, etc.
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    Pros
    Fishbowl
    • Inventory control - provides easy/accurate reports. Also, cycle counts can be done at any time. The warehouse team was easily trained.
    • Sales Orders - Fishbowl allowed us to have the sales orders accessible to everyone and linked the customers' purchase order to the orders and work orders (within the system). It no longer needs to be manually linked.
    • Custom reports - for a small fee we had reports customized specifically for our company.
    • Link to Quickbooks - invoices generated directly after closure of sales order.
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    HotSchedules and Fourth
    • The 'stock management' tab on the home screen is of particular use when keeping tabs on incoming deliveries into the restaurant.
    • The option to open and close your stock period is great as you have the chance to edit your stock at a moment's notice.
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    Cons
    Fishbowl
    • MRP
    • BOM creation
    • Unified interface
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    HotSchedules and Fourth
    • It would help massively to see via Enterprise and menu items what ones are no longer active, to keep the data tidy.
    • When you take purchase reports from Enterprise and select to organise them by category, show the name of the category on the actual report download.
    • Quick and easy upload/download of supplier products for correcting prices, descriptions, prices in bulk.
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    Support Rating
    Fishbowl
    Originally the support for Fishbowl was very poor. It was hard to get anyone to help. In the last 12 - 14 months, it has greatly improved and if it continues this way I would certainly rate it higher.
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    HotSchedules and Fourth
    Too long to get an answer.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Fishbowl
    Fishbowl is more useful than QuickBooks Manufacturing if you operate complex manufacturing with multiple multi layered BOMS
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    Return on Investment
    Fishbowl
    • Positive: Decreased time spent on copy/pasting in spreadsheets.
    • Positive: Easier to analyze costs and guarantee efficiency.
    • Negative: Time to get it up and running is really difficult to work with.
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    HotSchedules and Fourth
    • Procurement: Integrating some of the key suppliers with Trade Simple has saved labour hours.
    • Integration: GL Integrations have increased the efficiency and quality of data.
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