Fishbowl Inventory vs. SAP Extended Warehouse 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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Well suited - Managing the inventory and tracking of stocks is robust scenarios where it is less appropriate - Flexibility in RF screen must be improved and to fix the issues in queues when it is stuck

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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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• The inventory management.
• In warding for materials.
• Store request.
• GR process.

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• MRP
• BOM creation
• Unified interface

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• I think the integration with s4 surroundings is very poor. checks in eg. accounting is not performed in SAP Extended Warehouse Management and accumulate in the inbox for s4

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I think its best tool that you can use for this particular job. I know there are others but as long as you use SAP for some functionalities in your business you should consider using it.

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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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We are using Max attention, which is a perfect (but costly) extension for prod support.

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

Incentivized

We were using non-sap product for managing the SAP Extended Warehouse Management which was not that great and flexible. In S4H 2023 version, SAP Extended Warehouse Management comes up with the features which was suitable for our business hence we implemented SAP Extended Warehouse Management. This was seamless integration has is embedded in HANA, we dont have to setup another instance and use the features of SAP Extended Warehouse Management

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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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• We just started to use it so the benefits are not yet clearly visible
• In the future I see that we can save work hours when we get all the functionalities working as we want

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