What Is Last-Mile Delivery and How Can Your Business Get It Right?

What is last-mile delivery, and how can your business get it right? Fishbowl Blog

Every eCommerce fulfillment stage is equally vital and should be treated as such if you want your packages to reach your customers. However, last-mile delivery often receives the most attention due to its importance, complex implementation, and hard-to-solve logistical issues.

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May the Best Referrer Win

Win an Apple Watch through Fishbowl's referral program, Fishbowl Blog
Win an Apple Watch through Fishbowl's referral program, Fishbowl BlogFishbowl is holding a competition for its Referrers. We appreciate everything that our Referrers do, and we’d like to show our appreciation by offering them a reward for their efforts. In the month of August, whoever refers the most potential customers to Fishbowl will receive an Apple Watch Series 2. It doesn’t matter if they purchase Fishbowl in that timeframe or anything like that. We’re purely going off of the number that gets referred. (more…)

5 Common Hurdles to Overcome When Managing a Factory

Overcome these five business hurdles to succeed in manufacturing, Fishbowl Blog
With the number of factories that have closed down, it is obvious that manufacturers face many challenges. In fields like this managers always have a lot to deal with. There are five hurdles, in particular, that manufacturers need to overcome to be successful in any country. (more…)

Fishbowl Employees Take the Triple Crank Challenge

Fishbowl employees competed in the 2015 Rockwell Relay race, Fishbowl Blog
Bryan Byrge’s legacy continues. The father of four died in a tragic accident while riding his bike on March 12, 2014. The way he lived his life has inspired his friends to continue pushing to be their best. His motto was “Live Big,” and that is just what people are doing in his memory. A group of 12 Fishbowl employees and friends were inspired by the goal Byrge made a few years ago to complete the Utah Triple Crank Challenge, and they decided to complete it this year in his honor. (more…)

A New Breed of Supply Chain Management

I stumbled across an excellent article by Tompkins International, a global supply chain consulting firm – and I just had to share it. Most manufacturers have applied inventory control techniques and lean manufacturing principles, but there’s a paradigm shift that will separate the supply chains that fail from those that will continue to succeed in the future. (more…)

3 Business Lessons Learned from BYU’s Record Comeback Against Iona

Brigham Young University’s men’s basketball team came back from a 25-point deficit to win their game against Iona College on March 13, 2012, marking the biggest comeback in NCAA tournament history. Was that luck or skill? (more…)

How Product Lifecycles Affect Inventory Management

Just when you thought managing inventory was challenging enough, something else gets added to the equation to make it even more complex: Product lifecycles. That’s right. It’s not enough to just have the right number of products in stock; you also need to know how long you should keep selling them. A product lifecycle is how long a certain product can be sold before it’s replaced by a new model or another product that meets the same need for less. (more…)