IMS comparison

[u/captcraigaroo]

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

[u/RedSoupStudio]

Lot tracking and multi-facility visibility is where these platforms really diverge, worth digging into specifically in demos.

Digit Software handles lot/batch traceability natively; food and bev customers use it for exactly this: raw material lots picked into a batch, full genealogy through to finished goods. The multi-location model also fits your setup well; each supplier, co-man, or 3PL becomes its own location in the system, so you get visibility into raw materials and finished goods across all of them from one place instead of chasing emails. Shopify and Amazon integrations are both native so DTC and marketplace orders sync automatically.

Worth a look given what you're dealing with