Vendor Management

Manage vendors in Fishbowl to keep your supply chain humming along

Vendor management has never been easier thanks to Fishbowl’s intuitive supply chain features. Manage vendor relationships, create default vendors for parts, and keep track of vendor contracts and payment terms from a centralized database.

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Enhance your vendor management capabilities and relationships with valuable data

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Managing Vendors

Work with multiple vendors to stay well-stocked.

Managing Vendors

Most manufacturers and distributors have a variety of suppliers of their goods to mitigate risks to their supply chain. Having multiple suppliers is a good idea for risk management. Saving every vendor’s name, address, and contact information in your inventory management software helps you to keep them organized and centralized. Then you will be able to quickly add those vendors to purchase orders when the time comes to reorder items from them.
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Advanced Vendor Management

Take advantage of Fishbowl for better vendor management strategy, KPIs, and contract management.

Advanced Vendor Management

There are many ways Fishbowl helps you with managing relationships with vendors. Fishbowl allows you to take control of your supplier management, and it arms you with valuable data to adjust your vendor management strategy, KPIs, and contract negotiation. Fishbowl stores data on each procurement and interaction with vendors, basically acting as a vendor manager.
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Vendor Payment Terms

Record each vendor’s payment or contract terms and additional requirements.

Vendor Payment Terms

Every vendor and contract is different, so a solid vendor management system like Fishbowl is key. For instance, Vendor A might need payment in 15 days, Vendor B in 30, and Vendor C might offer a 5% discount for early payment. Knowing these terms helps you manage cash flow and stay on top of your bills. Knowing these details will helps you manage cash flow when the bill comes due.
04 | Vendor Relationship Management

Take into account minimum quantities and other factors to manage vendor relationships

Every vendor you work with likely has different minimum quantities or total order values that you must meet before they will fulfill an order. It’s important to engage in vendor relationship management in order to keep track of critical factors like these and inform staff about them when they’re creating a purchase order with a particular vendor on it. Thankfully, Fishbowl does just that. This helps you maintain healthy vendor relationships and ensure your purchase orders get approved by them.

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Auto Purchase Orders

Automatically generate purchase orders to quickly reorder items with low quantities.

Auto Purchase Orders

Want to take advantage of auto purchase orders? That’s when Fishbowl automatically generates a purchase order for an item that has reached its reorder point. It’s a huge time saver, and it helps you control costs and keep your warehouses properly stocked with inventory. This helps you with your business objectives and other business needs. And it is made possible by Fishbowl’s vendor management system.
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Default Vendor Management

Create default vendors to facilitate the reordering process.

Default Vendor Management

You can set a default vendor for every part in your inventory, and they will appear on automatically generated purchase orders. This saves a lot of time when it comes to inventory procurement. Instead of you having to search for items that are low in quantity and their associated vendors, all of that information comes to you in an auto purchase order.
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Vendor Performance

Measure your vendors’ consistency and reliability over time.

Vendor Performance

Vendor performance is a vital part of vendor management and vendor relationships. Fishbowl helps with the vendor management process by enabling you to track how your vendors are doing in several ways. The number of on-time orders tells you if a vendor is consistent. And the number of orders that arrive with the correct quantity of parts you ordered tells you if a vendor is reliable.
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08 | Order Reconciliation

Reconcile incoming purchase orders to keep your vendor management system accurate

Fishbowl also gives you the ability to reconcile orders that have damaged goods or incorrect quantities, so you don’t have to worry if there are errors in the receiving process. You can mitigate risks and other business needs as they arise. Sometimes it’s worth it to do business with a vendor that charges a little bit extra for parts or shipping than one that charges less but has more delivery errors. There are many such tradeoffs in vendor performance and vendor contract negotiation to take into consideration.

Case Study

Spark R&D

Significant improvement in vendor management and more

  • Able to work with multiple vendors to keep numerous products in stock as part of their vendor management strategy
  • Increased visibility of inventory data across all departments to facilitate procurement
  • Scalable software solutions can grow with the company’s onboarding and supply chain needs
  • Dramatically improved their order fulfillment and vendor performance management processes

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Testimonials and Awards

See why our customers trust us for their inventory management needs

“Things are done right.”
What Fishbowl has done to identify the holes that could have impacted accounting, I can’t even quantify that. The money that we’ve saved by doing things right, I can’t quantify that either.
Christy Hair
CEO, Mack and Rex
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Leader Small-Business
Fishbowl is a G2 Leader for small businesses, praised for high satisfaction.
G2Crowd
2024
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“Keeps us ahead.”
With Fishbowl, we’re able to stay on top of inventory management and data, which allows us to stay ahead of our supply chain challenges.
Josiah
Supply Chain Coordinator, Automotive Industry
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GetApp: Distribution
Fishbowl's solution transforms complex distribution workflows
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2023
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“Love the options.”
I love the ability to cross-reference multiple custom products with images and information in a wide variety of queries.
Max
Manager, Textiles Industry
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G2Crowd: Summer 2024 High Performer
Fishbowl stands out with high customer satisfaction, recognized as a G2's High Performer quadrant.
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2024
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Front Runner 2024
Fishbowl is a front runner across multiple manufacturing and warehousing software categories
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2024
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Fishbowl's awarded 'best features and functionality' from reviewers.
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2024
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Capterra: 2024 Shortlist
Capterra recognized Fishbowl for its robust feature set
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2024
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Capterra: Warehouse Management
Ranked Fishbowl as a top performer in warehouse management
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2024
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Take stock of your vendor management with a little help from a Fishbowl expert.