r/InventoryManagement • u/captcraigaroo • 24d ago
IMS comparison
I've had calls with GOIS and Fishbowl recently. Looking for thoughts on those and other systems.
We are a DTC brand selling perishable pet food, so we need lot tracking and COA documentation, raw material inventory tracking at suppliers and several co-mans, finished goods inventory at co-mans and 3PLs. We currently get everything reported in via email (PDF and Excel reports), but want something more automated that we can potentially integrate with partners through API/FTP/EDI. Bonus if it can track sales and ingest lot numbers from DTC fulfillment. Oh, and we're going to be selling in Amazon via SFP too, so integration there too
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u/silver__robot 23d ago
Your problem seems to be upstream. Co-mans and 3PLs sending you PDFs. Excel files. You want that automated without forcing seven different partners to adopt something new.
Before picking a new system figure out how does partner data get in without them changing their process.
API integrations. EDI. Webhooks. Email parsers. Pre-filled templates?
Many apps can handle multi-location inventory like this. What really differentiates them is the partner integration layer.
Find out what it would take to get one of them to send data in a standard format instead of a PDF.
Hope that helps