Inventory and warehouse insights
Practical notes on Fishbowl, Katana, Cin7 and QuickBooks Online: warehouse workflows, integrations, barcodes and reporting.
How to Sell Wholesale and DTC Under One Roof
Can you run a consumer web store and a wholesale business at the same time? Yes! Plenty of product businesses do it. The trouble…
How to Control Purchase Orders as Your Business Grows
When one person does all the buying, purchase orders live happily in that person’s head. When three people start buying, those same orders start…
Why Your Inventory Count Is Wrong
Your inventory count is usually wrong because of small, ordinary process gaps, not careless people. Receiving mistakes, unit-of-measure mismatches, unrecorded moves, and delayed updates…
Can Fishbowl Process E-Commerce Returns?
Yes. Fishbowl desktop (with a little help, more on that in a minute) can now process e-commerce returns from any shopping cart, so a…
What Is Pallet-Level Tracking (and When Does a Warehouse Actually Need It)
Pallet-level tracking means giving every pallet its own identity, usually a barcode tag, so your system knows what’s on it, where it is, and…
What Makes Inventory Management Different for Outdoor and Sporting Goods Distributors
Most distributors just need to know how many units they have. Outdoor and sporting goods distributors need to know how many units they have,…
What Makes Inventory Management Different for Medical Device Distributors
If you distribute patio furniture and a pallet gets mixed up, someone gets the wrong umbrella stand. Annoying, but survivable. If you distribute medical…
Inventory Headaches That Are Unique to Specialty Food Distributors
Specialty food distribution comes with a set of inventory problems that generic wholesale software was never built to solve: stock that has a countdown…
EDI and Big-Box Retail: What Fishbowl, Katana, and Cin7 Users Need Before Selling to Walmart or Target
Pop the champagne, tell the board, and give your sales team a massive high-five: you just landed Walmart, Target, or Home Depot. Getting your…
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