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Katana Cloud Inventory
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About Katana Cloud Inventory
Katana's Cloud Inventory Platform gives you live insights into sales, purchasing, and production to maintain optimal inventory levels in real time. Easily manage incoming orders from all your sales channels and issue purchase orders directly from Katana to ensure restocking at the right time and in the right quantities. Define your bill of materials and operations for optimized production scheduling and get a task-level overview and live shop floor insights with the Katana Shop Floor App. Seamlessly integrate Katana with your e-commerce, accounting, and other business software to automate repetitive tasks and get real-time visibility over your daily operations and business performance.
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.
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 and does not offer a free trial. Katana Cloud Inventory paid version starts at US$199.00/month.
Starting Price:
US$199.00/month
Free Version:
No
Free trial:
No
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Katana Cloud Inventory Reviews
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Joshua
- Industry: Warehousing
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Review Source
Value for Money
5
Features
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
5
5
Reviewed on 19/5/2020
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!
Replied 2/6/2020
Klaus
- Industry: Machinery
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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Review Source
Value for Money
4
Features
4
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
5
4
Reviewed on 21/8/2020
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.
Replied 28/12/2020
Chris
- Industry: Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Review Source
Value for Money
1
Features
2
Ease of Use
3
Customer Support
2
2
Reviewed on 12/2/2024
Scrappy startup quality at enterprise rates
Now at the money grabbing stage before they implode, would be my guess.
Clunky at the best of times. We put up with quirks, bugs that were never going to get fixed and general major omissions (like lack of back up and undo)
This company is being run like it's an open source "best effort" outfit, but charging premium monthly rates for a software that feels barely out of beta.
Given how central MRP/ERP/etc is to our business, we will be looking for a different provider asap, as none of this inspires trust in what should be a long term partner
Pros
The user interface is pretty and nice to use, mostly
The concepts of scheduling and general "idea" behind the katana system are good
Cons
The endless bugs and now pricing issues. No backup, no undo, and again, lots of bugs.
We regularly have to contact support with issues in their system. Most of the time the response is "oh we'll put it on our voting system, if it gets votes we'll fix it", which really is not what I expect from a system that costs several hundred dollars a month, before addons and users.
To be perfectly honest, we were making do - the pros of not having to build this kind of system ourselves outweighed the cons. That has now changed.
What triggered this review is that they doubled the price of our plan, turned off a number of features we were using to run our business operations, and charged us for "add-ons" all without warning. We did get sent an email, warning us of an upcoming change in billing (note this email was sent 28 days before the change...). That email said someone would reach out to us to discuss transitioning. That did not happen, and instead they just turned things off and billed our card for add-ons we never agreed to.
Forced onboarding (billable of course) with an "expert" is a bit of a joke
Alternatives Considered
MRPeasyResponse from Katana Cloud Inventory
We want to clarify that our decision to adjust pricing and service features was not made lightly. This move aims to ensure the sustainability of our service and the continuous development of features that meet our customers' needs. Our pricing model is designed to reflect the value we’ve built and continue to build, as well as the comprehensive support we provide.
Regarding the issues you've encountered with bugs and the lack of certain functionalities such as backup and undo options, please know that we are constantly working to enhance our platform, it improves week by week — sometimes visibly, and sometimes in the back-end.
Please know that we are here to support you through this transition and would welcome any further dialogue to address your concerns directly at [email protected]. Our goal has always been and will continue to be, to serve as a reliable and innovative partner to businesses like yours.
Kurt @ Katana
Replied 22/2/2024
Shanon
- Industry: Food Production
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for Free Trial
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Review Source
Value for Money
5
Features
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
5
5
Reviewed on 11/8/2023
Katana is great!
Pros
The set up and use of Katana is super easy and user friendly! The online resources they provide are incredibly helpful. I found the Katana Academy videos the most helpful.
Cons
Katana does not provide a way to "waste" products, however I know that Katana is currently working on implementing a program to do this. The only true complaint is that it doesn't support fractions. Our products are divided into 12 and when inputting the "recipes and boms" 1 is not divisible by 12 evenly. This makes us have to stock adjust to get proper inventory counts.
Reasons for Switching to Katana Cloud Inventory
Katana is easy to look at, user friendly, and the easiest and cheapest way to achieve the goals we want in an inventory system.Response from Katana Cloud Inventory
Hi Shanon, thanks kindly for your review — the team behind the Academy are very happy to hear you're enjoying these the most!
We're always improving Katana and indeed fractions is one of the items on our radar for improving how our product recipes and BOMs work.
Replied 16/8/2023
Dennis
- Industry: Consumer Goods
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Review Source
Value for Money
4
Features
4
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
0
5
Reviewed on 15/6/2021
Exactly What Our Growing Business Needed.
So far, we are really liking hoe easy it was to setup and get running. The inventory management has improved the flow and processes in our company for the better.
Pros
Ease of use, support, inventory management features, able to create builds/recipes for products (BOM), ability to upload data using Excel, integration with Quickbooks Online
Cons
Cost, certain features do not make sense in the implementation.
