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Fishbowl's mission is to empower small and midsize businesses to oversee difficult business operations like inventory management and …
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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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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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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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| 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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July 01, 2022
Get set Inventory
Fishbowl's mission is to empower small and midsize businesses to oversee difficult business operations like inventory management and manufacturing with ease and at a low cost. Fishbowl is the most frequently requested production and warehousing management software.Fishbowl is a small and medium-sized business production and warehousing management solution. Material requirements planning (MRP), job shop floor control, work order administration, manufacturer orders, and bills of materials are all critical components.
- 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
Fishbowl Inventory is the accounting of items, component components, and raw materials used or sold by a firm. As a business owner, you manage inventory to ensure that you have enough product on hand and to identify when there is a shortage. Global supply networks change on a regular basis, placing inventory planning and management operations under stress. Manufacturers and wholesale distributors that pick when, when, and how your product is delivered require flexibility and may have unanticipated wait times.
We use it for inventory management, manufacturing management, product and recipe management for procurement of individual ingredients, allocation, vehicle assignment, costs analysis, and event financials. This helps us move away from spreadsheets and move towards being in the 21st century. Fishbowl Manufacturing is applicable most to all industries. We were not able to use any other platform except for Fishbowl Manufacturing when it comes to what we needed from inventory management software.
- 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.
April 30, 2022
If you rely on accurate reports, Fishbowl is not for you
We use Fishbowl for all our production, purchasing, and order processing. We use Fishbowl in conjunction with QuickBooks.
- 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
Fishbowl is more useful than QuickBooks Manufacturing if you operate complex manufacturing with multiple multi layered BOMS
April 28, 2022
Functional and affordable
We are a wholesaler that supplies products to non-profits. We manage the shipment of those products. Each "bill to" may have multiple "ship to" addresses. Each client may ship to thousands of supporters. We import the orders and address data and ship the requested materials to the individuals, then aggregate the shipping data to bill the client.
- 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 could be tailored to accommodate our needs and to integrate with other providers to offer the seamless work flow. Others that I investigated were much more expensive or couldn't do the tasks we were requiring. The final analysis was that Fishbowl offered a cost effective way for us to manage our business.
November 08, 2018
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Fishbowl is used by the entire organization. It maintains our inventory and we use it for purchasing, entering sales orders and manufacturing orders. It ensures we have everything in one system and works with Quickbooks.
- 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
Arena is very powerful and user friendly - but not an inventory control system - yet the bill of materials input far exceeds that of Fishbowl.
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.
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.
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Fishbowl is not that difficult and the original package comes with support so we should not need more. If a system is that difficult I would not choose to use it.
Fishbowl has provided good support lately - not quite up to the exceptional support yet.