About Katana Cloud Inventory
With integrations for sales, accounting, and shipping, you can run your business using the best software for you and your team without added manual work. There’s also our Shop Floor App to work remotely with your in-house team, batch tracking for total traceability, and automation for resources and reorders. You can even use barcode scanning to stay on top of stock takes and minimize physical paperwork with digital alternatives across your business.
Here are a few more of the features Katana offers to make manufacturing management simpler:
Real-time inventory insights - Access real-time inventory data for informed decisions, proactively preventing stockouts and overstock. Gain complete visibility into product locations, arrivals, and quantities, ensuring efficient operations and precise stock control.
Built-in purchase order management - Make informed purchasing decisions based on precise material requirements and reorder points. Issue purchase orders directly from Katana and track delay risks to meet customer demand.
Omnichannel sales management - Centralize all your B2B and B2C sales orders in a unified platform to quickly identify available items for sale and significantly optimize your order fulfillment process, leading to improved operational efficiency.
Manufacturing operations management - Define your bill of materials and operations to optimize production scheduling, maintain optimal levels of raw materials and finished goods, and accurately track manufacturing costs for streamlined production.
Financial visibility and cloud accounting - Streamline data transfer between systems, effortlessly convert purchase orders to bills, generate and update invoices based on sales order statuses, and synchronize inventory value in real time for precise costing.
Visual and intuitive - Katana's color-coded platform allows you to easily stay on top of your business vitals, from sales to manufacturing operations. Get a quick and accurate overview and help when you need it through our Knowledge Base and live support team. You can also enlist the help of a Katana Partner for help with implementation, automation, and more.
Katana Cloud Inventory pricing
Katana Cloud Inventory does not have a free version but does offer a free trial. Katana Cloud Inventory paid version starts at USD 99.00/month.
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Katana Cloud Inventory Reviews
Feature rating
- Industry: Warehousing
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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The best for small manufacturing
Pros
KatanaMRP has really helped me know what to order, and when to order it, as well as plan what comes next in manufacturing. It even lets me add time to tasks in production so I can monetarily make sure employees are being efficient enough for my company to remain profitable.
Definitely recommend. I wish I would have found them sooner.
Cons
Sometimes the app logs me out and I have to put the information in twice.
Reasons for Choosing Katana Cloud Inventory
ease of use and training of usersSwitched From
Cin7 CoreResponse from Katana Cloud Inventory
Thank you for the feedback and support!
- Industry: Machinery
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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First Impression KATANA - perfect fit for smaller companies which do not need a complex...
For our requirements, set-up and company size the best we could find and test!
We will manage inventory/warehouse with 5000+ items, handle products with ingredients & operations, edit quotes, generate sales orders and mark received orders as shipped for automated invoice generation in Quickbooks. The cloud-based concept and the reduced complexity combined with an intuitivbe operatzion makes this SW easy to install and to work with if you have a team in different geographic locatioopns (as we have).
Set-up of KATANA is absolutely simple, mostl yself-explanatory and can be done by any "power-user" without need of (expensive) external ERP-consultants.
Pros
Handling of inventory, items, products, ingredients, sales orders - all this is handled in a very efficient, clear and easy to use way. Makes the difference compared to many alternative MRP-/ERP-systems.
Connector to QuickBooks with automatic trigger for invoices in QB once the products are marked as shipped in KATANA.
Connector to Shopify for on-line sale of spare parts.
100% helpful and open minded customer service - very helpful in helping to understand all features and finding the best workflow for specific situations.
Cons
There are some functions/features which need improvement, e.g. the customization of documents such as Quotations so every company can generate a set of individual template to serve different areas (machines, spare parts, service,..). 3-5 custom fields for Quotes/Sales Orders/Products would be helpful. Althoug KATANA is intended to be a MRP-system it would be helpful to integrate SERVICE-articles (not only MAKE or BUY articles). This would allow to add a possible service portion to a spare parts quote.
Dedicated Delivery Notes (with partial shipments) would be a great feature.
Reasons for Choosing Katana Cloud Inventory
Due to a downsizing in manufacturing we decided to look for a faster, more flexible, less complicated MRP-system which is cloud-based and would have good and propven interfaces to a standard accounting SW and to an on-line shop (spare parts).Reasons for Switching to Katana Cloud Inventory
Simplicity with at the same time well covered basic features, ease of use, intuitive, cloud-based.Response from Katana Cloud Inventory
Thank you! Glad you are getting value out of Katana.
- Industry: Transportation/Trucking/Railroad
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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Promised so much delivered far short of what we hoped
Disappointed. They are pretending this software is the best thing since sliced bread and its more like a stale baguette.
Pros
It works on a basic level for stock management and also bills of materials.
Cons
It fails to have any sort of calender or gantt chart. It also fails terribly with time planning/recording of how long a task can take. For example you can't even put into the system that you start your working day at half past the hour only full hours are allowed. Further to the time planning side you can not block out time for holidays or meetings. Making this software useless to plan your time and give acreate lead times to customers.
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MRPeasyReasons for Choosing Katana Cloud Inventory
In the middle of the switch but it seams to offer far more options and cross capability.Switched From
OdooResponse from Katana Cloud Inventory
Hi Daniel! Thank you for your honest feedback. We are continuously working on improving on the points of time planning and will be ready with better capabilities in the coming months already.
- Industry: Furniture
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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A Thoughtful New Take on MRPs
This has been a very easy product to use - we came from a Netsuite operational backend but having a system that easily links to other products we use (Quickbooks, Shipping Platforms) was much easier to deploy.
Pros
The ease of use, as compared to larger MRP systems, helps keep the team on track.
Cons
There are some missing features - custom fields, tiered pricing, etc.
Alternatives Considered
MRPeasySwitched From
NetSuiteReasons for Switching to Katana Cloud Inventory
Ease of use, API integration- Industry: Retail
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Review Source
A critical piece of our business that we can't live without
I love it. I've had great interactions with everyone on the team, and I can tell they want to help me succeed. Thanks Katana!
Pros
Great value, probably the only affordable cloud solution on the market
Cons
It's a great piece of software for data entry. Not so great when it comes to using that data to run your business. No dashboards or views that provide insights. They've solved for this by integrating with Easy-Insight and Stocktrim. Now that those are in place, I'm completely satisfied.
Response from Katana Cloud Inventory
Thanks for your review Jonathan, happy to hear Katana saves you the time and effort compared to Airtable!
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