Fishbowl Inventory vs. GeekSeller vs. IBM Sterling Order Management

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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GeekSeller works best for sellers managing Amazon and Walmart with regular order volume. It may be less suitable for very small sellers with only a few orders per month.

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It's perfect for medium to large retailers

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• 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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• Great support
• Reliable with marketplaces
• It just works as we need it

• Centralizing data.
• Instantaneously updated data.
• Ad hoc reporting.

• MRP
• BOM creation
• Unified interface

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• More built-in reporting

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• RCP Based deployment
• Wider variety of sourcing configuration
• Product Documentation
• COM Features need to better so that Customer case handling is facilitated

The package of Sterling Order Management / Sterling Store / Sterling Call Center works very well and it supports the expansion to Geographies like US/EU/JP/China, some of hottest markets for e-commerce.

I give it a 10 because the platform is reliable, works well for daily use. The support team is also very helpful when needed.

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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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Fishbowl is more useful than QuickBooks Manufacturing if you operate complex manufacturing with multiple multi layered BOMS

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I used many systems like this in the past, but GeekSeller has great support and the system just works as they advertise it

Warehouse Management System which is mainly focussed on warehouse fulfillment but not on the routing and availability tracking

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• 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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• They automated for us inventory and orders sync
• Removed a lot of manual work
• Support is knowledgeable, helping us to resolve any issues quick

• Optimal inventory management resulted in more orders per minute and good ROI and customer experience

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