About Katana
Real-time master planning — Katana automatically follows the stock movements across the production cycle and in multiple warehouses to help you maintain optimal inventory levels. You can also build BOMs and product recipes to manage materials and keep an eye on availability for your make-to-order workflows or fulfill the order from available product stock.
Live inventory management and full traceability — Prioritize orders in Katana and track the availability of raw materials and finished goods in real-time. Features like batch or lot tracking ensure end-to-end traceability of materials and products from production to post-sale. Quickly identify products and materials and keep track of materials and batch numbers when receiving, consuming, or counting goods.
Total shop floor control — Receive real-time manufacturing insights in Katana's Shop Floor App. Easily create, set up, and remove shop floor operators while tracking manufacturing costs based on product recipes and production operations.
Integrations and open API — Katana connects to popular e-commerce, accounting, CRM, and reporting service providers such as Shopify, eBay, Amazon, WooCommerce, Xero, and QuickBooks Online to streamline your operations. You can also set up custom workflows with Katana's open API or connect to hundreds of third-party integrations via Integromat and Zapier.
Katana pricing
Katana does not have a free version but does offer a free trial. Katana paid version starts at US$99.00/month.
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Katana Reviews
Feature rating
- Industry: Food Production
- Company size: 2-10 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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Review Source
The MRP system I wish I'd always had
Katana's awesome, full stop.
I've been working with manufacturing businesses for years, and for years I've lamented Xero's relatively weak inventory management system. Two years ago I tried literally every MRP app I could find to plugin to Xero; they were all pretty bad.
Along comes Katana, which maybe was around earlier but was "new to me" just this year, and ... wow. Mostly, it Just Works. The Xero integration works seamlessly for bills and sales orders, which speeds AP/AR quite a bit. 90% of the tool's value is outside of Xero though, and I now have a permanently-pinned Katana tab in my browser for tracking everything in the production flow from raw materials purchasing, to production, to sale, to reconciliation of remaining materials and product stock. It's great.
Is it perfect? Not quite. They need to do some performance work, as load times are often a little sluggish. Also, it would be nice to see finer-grained automation, and better contact syncing. But overall, I'm delighted.
Pros
- It's really easy to use
- Makes it easy to track materials on hand, reorder, etc
- Calculates margin including labor cost
- Xero integration works perfectly
- Zapier integration makes it really flexible from an automation standpoint
- Really lots of other stuff ... it's truly an excellent product and an outlier in a pretty clunky space.
Cons
It can be a little slow, and the contact syncing could be more robust.
Reasons for Switching to Katana
It's easier to use, it's priced right, and it gives you what you need without a bunch of stuff you don't. Perfectly tailored for SMB/SME manufacturers.- Industry: Consumer Goods
- Company size: 2-10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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Review Source
Very Useful
The overall experience has been excellent so far. Katana has helped us transition away from using spreadsheets to track our manufacturing operations and really professionalise our processes. It's an integral part of our everyday operations.
Pros
Katana has multiple features which have very useful in improving our manufacturing processes. The ability to create recipes for each product has been a huge help for us as we have quite a lot of raw materials in each finished product.
The Shop Floor app has been brilliant for us to track production/assembly time more accurately. This has been a great help in pinpointing an accurate cost per unit.
Cons
The only aspect that hasn't met our expectations so far has been the batch tracking feature. This is an excellent feature and one that would be so helpful for us. However, we need it to work automatically with our Shopify orders and at the moment sales orders can only be attributed to particular batches if you fulfil them on the Katana dashboard. We need this to happen automatically when our Shopify orders are fulfilled.
Alternatives Considered
OrderhiveReasons for Switching to Katana
Katana was much more suited to our needs in terms of the receipt creation features for each product. The interface was also much simpler than the alternative products we considered.
- Industry: Automotive
- Company size: 51-200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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Review Source
The simplest mrp system.
We can easy to get COGS, quickly in make decision for make or buy.
Implement is simple and quickly .
Pros
Clear process: Order fulfillment, Purchasing, Manufacturing and Inventory Control.
Cons
Don't have kitting BOM (Combo product).
Format of Currency is bad, it's difficult to read.
Alternatives Considered
ERPNextReasons for Choosing Katana
Easy, simple and focus on MRP.Switched From
OdooReasons for Switching to Katana
Simple and Very focus, easy to connect with Shopify and Quickbook.- Industry: Retail
- Company size: 2-10 Employees
- Used for Free Trial
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Review Source
I dont understand all the great reviews
Pros
The interface is intuitive. The pricing seems okay.
Cons
This software is seriously lacking features. For all those who wrote reviews saying they love the software, I want to know what industry they work in and how they use the app. It doesnt offer very basic features. You can't bulk edit, you literally need to upload an excel sheet if you want to change several products. There are no images for your products. How does it not support images? This is basic database stuff. And currently, you can only manufacture items from one location! Who's rating this software as great?!
Response from Katana MRP
As a fast growing software, we understand the concerns you have with Katana. At our current development speed, all of the mentioned lacking features are made available by the end of this year. Hope you will give us another chance!
- Industry: Environmental Services
- Company size: 2-10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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Review Source
Love the functionality!
Pros
This software is very user friendly compared to some other, more detailed programs.
Cons
I had some issue with the conversions during the product builds, so I am not sure if you could have multiple conversions for a product.
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