Overview
What is Fishbowl Inventory?
Fishbowl 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.
Fishbowl Manufacturing expands your view beyond just the fishbowl.
If you rely on accurate reports, Fishbowl is not for you
Functional and affordable
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What is Fishbowl Inventory?
Fishbowl 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.
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- No setup fee
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- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting / Integration Services
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Fishbowl Inventory Technical Details
Deployment Types | On-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Windows |
Mobile Application | No |
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(1-5 of 5)Get set Inventory
- Optimize cost
- Material requirement Planning
- Order Management
- Inventory Optimization
- Inventory turnover ratio
- MRP
- BOM creation
- Unified interface
- Inventory Control
- warehouse planning based on staffing and scheduling activities
- In creating material requirement planning for effective inventory planning
- Intuitive functionality
- unified dashboards
- better integration
- Inventory Management.
- Ingredient and Recipe Management.
- Cost Control and Variation.
- Useability is a little dated with the UI.
- Linking some of their modules together that don't currently link
- A quicker onboarding would be appreciated, but there is a lot to learn so I understand.
- Purchase Orders
- Auto Purchase orders
- Inventory Management
- Cost analysis
- Allocation
- Recipes
- 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.
If you rely on accurate reports, Fishbowl is not for you
- Bill of Materials
- Inventory Management
- Reporting: Many of the reports that are provided for free with Fishbowl are useless in the context of everyday manufacturing and production planning. Some reports provide inaccurate information. In order to use get useful and correct reports, outside developers must be paid (a new or modified report may cost anywhere from $150 to $2000)
- Customer service can be hit or miss. In our experience, a knowledgeable person is rarely available, but for the most part customer service has no idea how real manufacturing works to provide reasonable answers to fix Fishbowl shortfalls.
- Integration with ShipStation for simplified shipping
- Integration with QuickBooks
- Use of ShipStation simplified our shipments
- Lack of accurate reporting added many unnecessary work hours
Functional and affordable
- Maintaining accurate inventory data
- Integrating well with the supporting software
- Accurate reporting
- Allow easier customization of reports
- Lower pricing on Plug Ins
- tracking inventory
- receiving products
- reporting
- efficient handling of products
- reduced paperwork, accurate communication of data
Fishbowl Review
- 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.
- In some instances when the sales orders contain "non inventory items," it is difficult to split up these items (i.e. design contract items) once they have been put into the system. The work flow is not intuitive to know what needs to be backed out, etc. For example, if a sales order is placed with a contract for $1000 but the next day we need to bill out only $600 ($400 later) - the entire $1000 gets billed out and can't be retracted.
- Shipping memos/packing lists - the link between the Quickbooks invoice number would be nice.
- Adding files to the vendor/part area, so I don't need to go to our PLM system to get the files.
- Overall FBM has saved our company money. Our inventory is more accurate. Previously we used a home grown, Access data base. We have decreased our cost in the inventory/purchasing area by about 15%.
- Our parts are easier to track in the system - from sales order/purchasing/work order/inventory.
- Arena
Fishbowl has improved in the 3 years we have had it. However, there are things with Fishbowl that are still difficult, ie. splitting an order once it has been input, (sometimes it works, other times we wonder what we did wrong). Once a manufacture order has been set it cannot be changed even if a part has to be changed (due to purchase issues), and sales orders don't seem to allow "down payments" - or if it does, it is not easily understood.
Fishbowl is far better than our previous Access database system. Tracking parts is much easier.