About Katana Manufacturing ERP
Katana Manufacturing ERP gives you total visibility over all the moving parts of your business. Real-time master planning features allow manufacturers to monitor all vital business processes and operations in one centralized platform. Katana also integrates with leading e-commerce, accounting, CRM, automation, and reporting service providers like Shopify, WooCommerce, Xero, QuickBooks Online, Salesforce, Zapier, and make.com among many others. You can also create custom workflows using Katana's open API.
*Live inventory management*
Set up reorder points and prioritize sales and manufacturing orders to optimize your material and product inventory. Track the availability of raw materials and finished goods in real-time. Katana follows stock movements across your entire production cycle in multiple warehouses, allowing you to maintain optimal inventory levels everywhere.
*Real-time master planning*
Katana automates raw material and product allocation for efficient sales order fulfillment. Katana adjusts your production schedule according to demand, aligning your manufacturing operations to ensure maximum efficiency.
*Total shop floor control*
Optimize and monitor floor-level operations in Katana's Shop Floor App. Easily create, set up, and remove shop floor operators and receive real-time floor-level insights to easily track manufacturing costs and productivity based on your product recipes or bills of materials (BOMs) and production operations.
*Omnichannel order management*
Manage your made-to-order and made-to-stock workflows in tandem. Katana supports e-commerce and B2B operations and integrates with a wide range of CRM and e-commerce tools to streamline order fulfillment.
*End-to-end traceability*
Batch tracking for manufacturing, purchasing, and sales orders, ensures industry compliance and visibility when it comes to tracking your perishable stock. Get end-to-end traceability for your products and materials at all stages of your product lifecycle.
*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.
Pricing starting from:
US$99.00/month
- Free Version
- Free Trial
- Subscription
Key benefits of Katana Manufacturing ERP
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Andorra, United Arab Emirates, Antigua & Barbuda, Anguilla, Albania, Armenia, Argentina, Austria, Australia, Aruba, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Barbados, Bangladesh, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil, Bahamas, Belarus, Belize, Canada, Switzerland, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Cyprus, Czechia, Germany, Denmark, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Estonia, Egypt, Spain, Finland, Faroe Islands, France, United Kingdom, Grenada, Georgia, Gibraltar, Greenland, Guadeloupe, Greece, Guatemala, Hong Kong SAR China, Honduras, Croatia, Haiti, Hungary, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Isle of Man, India, Iceland, Italy, Jersey, Jamaica, Jordan, Japan, St Kitts & Nevis, South Korea, Cayman Islands, St Lucia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Latvia, Monaco, Moldova, Montenegro, St Martin, North Macedonia, Martinique, Montserrat, Malta, Mexico, Malaysia, Mozambique, Namibia, Nicaragua, Netherlands, Norway, New Zealand, Oman, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Pakistan, Poland, St Pierre & Miquelon, Puerto Rico, Portugal, Paraguay, Qatar, Romania, Serbia, Saudi Arabia, Sweden, Singapore, Slovenia, Slovakia, El Salvador, Turks & Caicos Islands, Turkey, Trinidad & Tobago, Taiwan, Ukraine, United States, Uruguay, St Vincent & the Grenadines, Venezuela, British Virgin Islands, US Virgin Islands, South Africa, Zimbabwe and 115 others
Supported Languages
English
Pricing starting from:
US$99.00/month
- Free Version
- Free Trial
- Subscription
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Total features of Katana Manufacturing ERP: 95
Alternatives
MRPeasy
Odoo
Fishbowl
DEAR Systems
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- Industry: Warehousing
- Company size: 2-10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
The best for small manufacturing
Reviewed on 19/05/2020
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 Manufacturing ERP
ease of use and training of usersSwitched From
DEAR SystemsResponse from Katana MRP
Thank you for the feedback and support!
- Industry: Food & Beverages
- Company size: 2-10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Intuitive, Fast To Implement, and Beautifully Designed
Reviewed on 26/10/2021
Pros
The user interface is clean and very intuitive, requiring essentially no time to learn. Some of the other MRP solutions we tried were difficult to navigate and use, and training on them would have been labor intensive and costly. Katana is beautifully designed, and the batch-tracking and inventory management is easy to adapt to our business (MRPeasy/ERPAG were very clearly not designed with food manufacturing in mind, so making them even remotely functional for that purpose felt like a bit of a fools errand, whereas Katana just works).
Cons
While it is very user-friendly and it has the ability to track batches/lots (which is critical for us), we've had to develop workarounds to make it function the way we need it to -- it doesn't quite handle this the way I would envision it should. There are also some minor time wasters. If there's one simple feature I wish they would change, it's being able to type in the expiration dates rather than having to scroll through the calendar manually to select the correct date. This becomes so onerous when receiving multiple items on a PO and having to manually click through/scroll through the calendar to select the correct date as opposed to simply having a field that allows you to type in the date and move on.
Reasons for Switching to Katana Manufacturing ERP
Katana is a great small business solution that I can easily see growing with us. Fishbowl is cost-prohibitive (and honestly at this point, I'd rather just use Katana). MRPeasy and ERPAG are not as well designed and don't work well as a food industry solution -- they made simple tasks feel like running through a maze. The developers at Katana did a beautiful job of creating something intuitively designed that works well across multiple industries while also making it as clean and aesthetic as it is functional. It's a pleasure to use. I've noticed that they also seem to be regularly implementing improvements and updates, which is awesome. Customer support is friendly and responsive. Highly recommend.- Industry: Chemicals
- Company size: 51-200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 1.0 /10
Overpriced and insecure
Reviewed on 10/06/2022
Too expensive, cheaper to purchase some of the Tier One options out there. Insecure as your users...
Too expensive, cheaper to purchase some of the Tier One options out there. Insecure as your users have wide open access to all features - including the dreaded "delete all" function.
Pros
The software has the **potential** to be good.
Cons
There are only 2 user levels "Superusers" with access to all levels of creative and destructive features, and warehouse operators, with access to make to BOM instructions. The lack of "sales team" and other intemediate levels of access is a killer.
Response from Katana Technologies
Hi Bill,
We're aware our user permissions could be improved, and just around the corner in Q3 '22 we're launching a new and improved version with much more flexibility. We're currently building this out as we've received similar feedback in the past, thanks for your feedback on the topic too!
I'd also like to clear up how user permissions are working currently too, we have 3 levels of users;
Owner - access to all functions, including billing and delete all button.
User - access to all functions, excl billing and delete all button.
Operator - only shop-floor app access.
Additionally, it takes 4 separate steps to clear all account data in settings, including typing out your email address in full and is restricted to only the owner of the account.
If you need any help with users or have additional feedback to give, please chat with us in app as currently it's a great time to incorporate feedback specifically for this feature!
- Industry: Medical Devices
- Company size: 2-10 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
A lot of bang for the buck!
Reviewed on 16/03/2022
We were able to implement Katana as our central point for our entire software stack. Each piece of...
We were able to implement Katana as our central point for our entire software stack. Each piece of software gets its orders and data from Katana. Normally, I would be hesitant to put any of the software that small business sees on a daily basis into this important position. I had no issue putting Katana into this position.
Pros
This software has a fantastic feel to make working in it incredibly efficient. As a person that works with software/web design/development, I can appreciate the attention paid to this incredibly complex platform.
Cons
There isn't much we don't like. Most of the small things are already in the development cycle and they include small things like being able to customize Katana a bit more for our specific needs. Column order, custom fields, field mapping of API connections, etc.
- Industry: Food Production
- Company size: 2-10 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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The MRP system I wish I'd always had
Reviewed on 25/03/2021
Katana's awesome, full stop.
I've been working with manufacturing businesses for years, and for...
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 Manufacturing ERP
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.Katana Manufacturing ERP FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Katana Manufacturing ERP.Q. What type of pricing plans does Katana Manufacturing ERP offer?
Katana Manufacturing ERP offers the following pricing plans:
- Starting from: US$99.00/month View Pricing Plans
- Pricing model: Subscription
- Free Trial: Available
Essential plan from $99 a month. Advanced plan from $299 a month. Professional plan from $799 a month.
Q. Who are the typical users of Katana Manufacturing ERP?
Katana Manufacturing ERP has the following typical customers:
2-10, 11-50, 51-200, 201-500, 501-1,000
Q. What languages does Katana Manufacturing ERP support?
Katana Manufacturing ERP supports the following languages:
English
Q. Does Katana Manufacturing ERP support mobile devices?
Katana Manufacturing ERP supports the following devices:
Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile)
Q. What other apps does Katana Manufacturing ERP integrate with?
Katana Manufacturing ERP integrates with the following applications:
2Ship, BigCommerce, CartRover, Easy Insight, Ecwid, HubSpot CRM, Make, Online Auction System, Pipe17, Pipedrive, Prospect CRM, QuickBooks Online Advanced, Quickbooks Online, Salesforce Platform, Shift4Shop, Shiptheory, Shopify, Shopify Plus, Squarespace, SyncHub, Wix, WooCommerce, Xero, Zapier
Q. What level of support does Katana Manufacturing ERP offer?
Katana Manufacturing ERP offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, 24/7 (Live rep), Chat
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