Case Study: Mending Shed achieves 8x faster order picking and 6x faster purchase-order processing with Fishbowl Inventory

The Mending Shed Cut the Time it Spends Picking 100 Orders from 2 Hours to 15 Minutes and Working on Pos from 6 Hours to 1

Mending Shed, an appliance repair and spare‑parts retailer with a long‑running online store, faced chronic inventory imbalances, six‑hour daily purchase‑order work, slow and inefficient picking, lengthy (2–3 month) warehouse training, and frequent misplaced stock. To solve these problems they turned to Fishbowl Inventory and deployed the Fishbowl Warehouse solution.

With Fishbowl Inventory’s Fishbowl Warehouse, Mending Shed balanced inventory and integrated real‑time stock counts with its website, cut PO creation from six hours to about one hour per day, reduced picking time for 100 orders from two hours to 15 minutes, shortened new‑employee training to under a week, and dramatically reduced lost items—paying for the implementation within the first year while improving customer service and fulfillment.

Mending Shed

Justin Bosshardt

IT Manager