Barcodes are so mysterious, aren’t they? Just one little scan with a red line of the barcode reader, and suddenly you have a bunch of information on a screen. The information includes that product’s price, description, location, and much more. All of this begs the question: how does such a little barcode store so much information? If you have ever been curious about that question, you are about to learn the answer. So exciting!
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Time is of the essence when it comes to managing your inventory. If you have food products or other goods that have a limited freshness period, expiration dates are a must-have tool to track them by. No matter what goods you sell, it’s important to know their lead times and auto reorder points to make sure they don’t run out. And you can enable employees to track their time on the job and schedule tasks to make sure important things are done properly and in a timely fashion.
Let’s talk more about the five time-based inventory management tools we briefly mentioned above to get a feel for why they are so important to your business.
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Did you know that there is a Fishbowl Store where you’ll find more than 30 reports?
These reports address a huge spectrum of needs. They let companies print barcodes, conduct cycle counts, keep track of firearm sales, monitor monthly revenue goals, and much more.
Let’s talk about these reports, listed in alphabetical order:
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“Fishbowl may be a niche-filler, but it’s no weakling stopgap measure,” says Pam Baker in her review of Fishbowl on SmallBusinessComputing.com. “The popular inventory management add-on for QuickBooks does a commendable job keeping inventory assets in full view and on the move for small businesses.”
She does a great job covering Fishbowl’s features and explaining inventory management concepts, so I’ll let her do most of the talking in this blog post and throw in my two cents as needed.
Baker is a much more prolific writer than me. She’s written for newspapers like The New York Times and Knight Ridder, magazines like ComputerWorld and Institutional Investor, and websites like CIO.com. She’s been around the block, digitally speaking. So it’s no surprise that she has a lot of interesting things to say about Fishbowl.
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An inefficient shipping process or inadequate product storage solution can end up costing much more than many organizations might expect. Businesses seeking ways to curb their spending and keep overhead costs from getting out of hand would do well to reassess their current shipping methods and examine their storage policies. The following list serves to highlight some of the most common situations where waste and inefficiency may end up creating unnecessary financial strain. (more…)
This is the final article category, and it is the second-shortest of the bunch with just four articles. The page that lists these articles contains quite a long article in itself. Appropriately enough, the Wholesale Distribution category ends with “Tire Inventory Software” because it was through tireless effort that we rewrote and expanded all of the 130+ articles on this website to get them all to at least 500 words. And the results speak for themselves.
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The Inventory module is extremely important. It is where you can update quantities after performing cycle counts. You can move, add, delete, and manipulate inventory in many other ways in this module, and you can also check inventory locations and tracking data.
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QuickBooks Enterprise is the top-tier version of Intuit’s popular accounting software. It has the best features available to businesses. Let’s see how the very best QuickBooks has to offer stacks up against Fishbowl.
Both offer a great deal of inventory management and manufacturing features, as well as plugins and integrations. Let’s take an honest look at both solutions. When QuickBooks outmatches Fishbowl, we’ll point that out and when Fishbowl outmatches QuickBooks, we’ll point that out, too.
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