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Fishbowl Inventory vs. Smart IP&O Application Suite

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Fishbowl Inventory
Score 5.5 out of 10
N/A
Fishbowl Advanced is the company's on-premises inventory tracking, warehousing, and manufacturing solution with hosted capabilities, offering real-time inventory visibility and control across all locations and order fulfillment for physical warehouses, on-the-go inventory, 3PL, or drop shipping.N/A
Smart IP&O Application Suite
Score 0.0 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
Smart Software, now part of Epicor, is a provider of demand planning, inventory optimization and supply chain analytics solutions. Smart Inventory Planning & Optimization (IP&O) is a suite of native web applications, helping inventory carrying organizations reduce inventory, improve service levels and streamline Sales, Inventory and Operations Planning.N/A
Pricing
Fishbowl InventorySmart IP&O Application Suite
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Fishbowl InventorySmart IP&O Application Suite
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
Fishbowl InventorySmart IP&O Application Suite
Considered Both Products
Fishbowl Inventory
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Fishbowl Inventory
Fishbowl Inventory is the accounting of items, component components, and raw materials used or sold by a firm. As a business owner, you manage inventory to ensure that you have enough product on hand and to identify when there is a shortage. Global supply networks change on a …
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Fishbowl Inventory
Fishbowl is more useful than QuickBooks Manufacturing if you operate complex manufacturing with multiple multi layered BOMS
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Ed Thompson
Operations Manager
Chose Fishbowl Inventory
Fishbowl could be tailored to accommodate our needs and to integrate with other providers to offer the seamless work flow. Others that I investigated were much more expensive or couldn't do the tasks we were requiring. The final analysis was that Fishbowl offered a cost …
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Fishbowl Inventory
Arena is very powerful and user friendly - but not an inventory control system - yet the bill of materials input far exceeds that of Fishbowl.

Fishbowl has improved in the 3 years we have had it. However, there are things with Fishbowl that are still difficult, ie. splitting an …
Smart IP&O Application Suite

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User Ratings
Fishbowl InventorySmart IP&O Application Suite
Likelihood to Recommend
8.1
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Support Rating
7.0
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User Testimonials
Fishbowl InventorySmart IP&O Application Suite
Likelihood to Recommend
The purchasing function is very good - tracking and linking parts to sales orders, shortage reports, and part summaries.
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Anonymous
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Pros
  • Inventory Management.
  • Ingredient and Recipe Management.
  • Cost Control and Variation.
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Bobby Greenawalt
Founder & President
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Cons
  • Reporting: Many of the reports that are provided for free with Fishbowl are useless in the context of everyday manufacturing and production planning. Some reports provide inaccurate information. In order to use get useful and correct reports, outside developers must be paid (a new or modified report may cost anywhere from $150 to $2000)
  • Customer service can be hit or miss. In our experience, a knowledgeable person is rarely available, but for the most part customer service has no idea how real manufacturing works to provide reasonable answers to fix Fishbowl shortfalls.
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Anonymous
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Support Rating
Originally the support for Fishbowl was very poor. It was hard to get anyone to help. In the last 12 - 14 months, it has greatly improved and if it continues this way I would certainly rate it higher.
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Anonymous
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Alternatives Considered
Fishbowl could be tailored to accommodate our needs and to integrate with other providers to offer the seamless work flow. Others that I investigated were much more expensive or couldn't do the tasks we were requiring. The final analysis was that Fishbowl offered a cost effective way for us to manage our business
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Ed Thompson
Operations Manager
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Return on Investment
  • Intuitive functionality
  • unified dashboards
  • better integration
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Anonymous
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ScreenShots

Smart IP&O Application Suite Screenshots

Screenshot of Smart Demand Planner™ is a consensus demand planning and statistical forecasting solution available on Smart’s Inventory Planning and Optimization Platform, Smart IP&O. Smart Demand Planner, powered by the SmartForecasts® Engine, aligns strategic business forecasting at any level of your product hierarchy with granular forecasts of the item mix to improve forecast accuracy. It provides a statistically sound, objective foundation for your sales and operations planning process (S&OP). Smart Demand Planner’s collaborative workbench enables forecast overrides to be applied, imported, reviewed, and approved by authorized users driving the consensus plan. Forecast accuracy is measured, helping ensure that the best possible forecast is delivered to the business at both the aggregate and item mix levels. The result is more efficient sales planning, budgeting, production scheduling, ordering, and inventory planning.Screenshot of Smart Inventory Optimization (SIO™) is available on Smart’s Inventory Planning and Optimization Platform, Smart IP&O. It delivers inventory policy decision support and the means to share, collaborate, and track the impact of your inventory planning policy. This can help realize millions in savings by improving customer service and reducing excess stock. You can forecast metrics such as service level, fill rate, holding costs, ordering costs, and stock out costs. Users can identify overstocks and understocks, adjust stocking policie when demand changes, share proposed policies with other stakeholders, collect feedback, and establish a consensus inventory plan. And unlike traditional inventory planning systems that rely on rule of thumb approaches or require the user to arbitrarily set suboptimal service level targets, Smart Inventory Optimization prescribes the optimal service levels for you. Users can optionally assign service level constraints to ensure the optimization engine respects business rules. SIO provides the required inventory planning parameters for a variety of replenishment policies such as Reorder Point/Order Quantity, Min/Max, Safety Stock Planning, and Order Up to levels.Screenshot of Smart Operational Analytics (SOA™) is a native web reporting solution available on Smart’s Inventory Planning and Optimization Platform, Smart IP&O. It provides a fast, easily understood, current perspective on the state of your inventory, its performance against critical metrics, actual supplier lead times, opportunities to rebalance stocks across facilities, and helps you uncover root causes of operational inefficiencies. SOA automatically refreshes as often as you’d like providing all stakeholders immediate, up-to-date reporting on your operations and performance. You’ll have constant visibility of inventory levels, orders, shipments, and supplier performance to ensure you’ll always be in tune with the state of your operations and resolve issues before they become problems. Enhance visibility. Improve responsiveness. Increase your bottom line.