We create integrations between your 3PL provider’s system and Fishbowl. Our integrations offer standard and advanced functionality.

Using 3PL services allows businesses to focus on their main strengths rather than putting extensive effort into managing warehouses and shipping internally.

It’s important to integrate Fishbowl and the 3PL provider's system properly. Having both systems exchange data in an accurate and timely manner is critical for accounting of COGS, purchase planning, sales, and all other aspects of inventory operations.

Integrating Fishbowl Inventory and 3PL systems involves 2 major aspects - technical and business process. The main goal of 3PL integrations is to connect business operations processes across multiple entities, and the technical processes are there to support this connection.

Tailoring the systems’ connection and interaction to those business processes is the most challenging part of any integration.

Business requirements often seem straightforward at first glance. But the deeper you dive in, the more nuanced and complex they become. This complexity often becomes visible only at later stages, a long time after the development has already begun, and the integration process gets stuck.

We've seen a lot of our clients struggling with their previous system development efforts because of that.

It’s crucial to identify all the business processes, perform a deep analysis of them, see how they’re interconnected, and come up with a holistic view of the business operations.

All the separate business software components used by a company also need to be viewed as one larger system that mirrors the business operations flow.

This approach brings the required clarity. It allows to identify all the business requirements, translate them into technical software requirements properly, and create the architecture of the integration that aligns with all the other system components. It also reduces the number of unforeseen issues during integration development and later on when it’s deployed.    

Deep understanding of complex business processes combined with extensive software development knowledge is what makes VA Partners stand out when it comes to system integrations.