Meet regulations and track inventory with certainty

Yes! Fishbowl allows you to track your inventory and finished goods by whatever labeling you prefer and from anywhere. Choose from Fishbowl’s pre-loaded library of tracking options: lot number, expiration date, serial number, best-by date, received date, revision number, units of measure, country of origin, and more, or you can also create your own. This level of connectedness and visibility across your inventory makes it possible to accurately account for expired, or damaged inventory, ultimately mitigating the overall impact to your business. When storage capacity impacts inventory flow, Fishbowl can be configured to notify your teams of deadstock and items nearing expiration, allowing you to get ahead of spoilage and waste.

Fishbowl can be configured to complement and standardize your operational processes. Data entry is typically a point for potential human error. Dr. Ginette Collazo, CEO of Human Error Solutions, notes that 80% of process deviations in pharmaceutical “manufacturing environments can be attributed to human error.”

1 Fishbowl allows for automation of data entry through connection to other systems in your tech stack. Once data is entered into one system, it is automatically shared across your operations, drastically reducing the potential for human error. For instance, when an item is received in a shipment, it can be scanned in and stored based on predetermined settings. When that item is moved, sold, or otherwise removed from your inventory, a quick label scan accounts for the activity in your system without any other manual steps.

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Fishbowl enables strategic coordination of all parties and processes, including suppliers and contractors, to ensure timely and cost-effective sourcing, delivery, and utilization of materials, in order to meet strict quality control and compliance requirements. With the help of Fishbowl’s library of reports, you can evaluate and manage vendor relationships. Critical reports include:

• Lot History Report
• Vendor Performance Report
• Sales Summary Report
• Purchase Summary Report
• Vendor History Report
• Vendor Part List
• Vendor Backorder Report
• Vendor Fulfillment History Report
• Part Costs Over Time Report
• Receiving History Report

Fishbowl’s dynamic attribute tracking and barcoding system allows you to trace products through every step of the supply chain, based on GS1 labeling standards you customize and assign. In the event of a delay, your team can quickly identify and trace products from start to finish. Once you receive new inventory, you can customize your product labels to be able to track the details most important to your operations, regulatory bodies, and to your customers. Fishbowl’s library of reports gives you an even deeper dive into your processes and supply chain. These reports include:

• Sales Summary Report
• Purchase Summary Report
• Part History Report
• Lot History Report
• Customer History Report
• Inventory Turnover Report
• On-hand Inventory Report
• Purchase History Report
• Lead Time Report
• Reorder Point Report

Supplier and vendor management is time-consuming when it comes to forecasting, planning, and purchasing. Fishbowl simplifies those processes by giving you the ability to forecast and plan based on lead times, minimum order quantities, and other criteria. With this capability, you get what you need when you need it, no matter where your vendors are located. Additionally, we take the guess work out of purchasing by automatically converting the supplier prices to your home currency.

• Yes! From FDA to ISO certification, Fishbowl empowers you to meet and maintain compliance requirements throughout your quality assurance and quality control processes. Set up customer workflows and easily manage in-house and 3rd party task assignments.
• With Fishbowls calendar feature, you can schedule actions and reminders that help you stay on top of certification renewals. You can also create custom workflows specifically for certifications and renewals, as well as leverage Fishbowl Advanced reports to gain insights and track information related to compliance (schedule reports to be generated and exported in several different formats for ongoing tracking and documentation). Additionally, you can store all of your documentation on certification and compliance with Fishbowl File Storage.

Yes! Grant varying degrees of access to different people, or roles, throughout your organization, as well as 3rd party entities. Each role can be assigned specific permissions that define what actions the individual can perform–ensuring only those who you specify can view, edit, or delete certain information. With Fishbowl, everyone is clear on their roles and has access to exactly the information they need to do their job.

• Fishbowl allows you to set inventory max./min. thresholds that then trigger actions, like ordering more stock. Then, using Fishbowl’s reports, you can analyze inventory trends throughout your organization over time to identify patterns and better predict demand (customize and save your reports so you have the views you need when you need them. Talk to us about creating custom reports!). These reports arm you with impactful inventory data that allows you to make strategic purchasing decisions.
• Plan for fluctuations in demand, or delays in your supply chain, with calendar views of all your scheduled workflows–color code and curate your calendar, easily drag and drop work orders into the work week, and assign actions to certain people, so everyone is clear on what they need to do and when.

We will train you and your team on how to create new, or modify existing, workflows as part of your implementation, training, and certification. Keep those learnings fresh with on-demand training through our library of Brainstorm videos. If you need certain changes, or just want to leverage Fishbowl expertise, our team of experts is here to help craft/modify your workflows as needed! No matter how you work, Fishbowl’s got your back.