DELMIA Apriso vs. Fishbowl Inventory

generally speaking the tool is well suited in complex manufacturing execution environments because there are several features which can be enabled or developed to accomplish business requirements and needs, but on the other hand it means that the standard product is not suitable to cover standard complex scenario in a manufacturing company unless big effort is spent in the development and configuration phase

The purchasing function is very good - tracking and linking parts to sales orders, shortage reports, and part summaries.

Incentivized

• quality inspection setup, definition, execution and results recording
• work instruction association to specific work orders according to custom parameters
• execution of work order on mobile terminals

• Inventory Management.
• Ingredient and Recipe Management.
• Cost Control and Variation.

Incentivized

• standard functionalities could be more advanced
• configuration of the system is complex
• flexibility comes with the cost of continue development

• 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.

Incentivized

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.

Incentivized

because of the dassault environment integration. in fact there are several tools, for PLM, industrialization, planning and scheduling, CAD design and other tools all belonging to the Dassault environment, which can be integrated in one unique platform or at least they can theoretically exchange information between them in a easier/faster way

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

Incentivized

• traceability reliability and completeness
• overall time spent on work order by operators
• overall performances of the shopfloor

• Intuitive functionality
• unified dashboards
• better integration

Incentivized