Katana Cloud Manufacturing

Cloud manufacturing platform to make business easier.

About Katana Cloud Manufacturing

Katana offers a cloud manufacturing platform that makes daily life easier for you and your business. Bring your manufacturing operations into a single platform with integrations for sales, accounting, and shipping, get total visibility of everything you’re working on, and data to help you predict trends and make more informed business decisions.

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.

Live inventory management - Set up reorder points and prioritize sales and manufacturing orders to optimize your 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 product lifecycle stages.

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.


Key benefits of Katana Cloud Manufacturing

  • Get a simplified but complete overview of the status of all your manufacturing operations – easily manage your resources, set tasks for team members, and monitor the progress of projects

  • Automatically track stock movement across your production cycle and multiple warehouses, allowing you to maintain optimal inventory levels at all locations

  • Automate tasks from your master production schedule using Katana’s real-time master planner to streamline your manufacturing process

  • Track inventory in real-time and automatically allocate available materials and finished products to fulfill orders

  • Automate your workflows via seamless integrations with popular e-commerce and accounting platforms, like Shopify, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, Xero, QuickBooks Online, and more

  • Take advantage of other integrations via Zapier, and build your own custom workflows with Katana's open API

  • Build BOMs and track material availability for make-to-order workflows or fulfill orders from available product stock

  • As soon as orders are generated, you’ll get automatic inventory adjustments, calculated operational costs, and assigned raw inventory

  • Use barcode scanning to quickly identify products and materials and keep track of items and batch numbers when receiving, consuming, or counting goods

  • Sync sales orders from multiple channels into a single platform to plan and prioritize production

  • Batch or lot tracking allows you to quickly track and easily trace all your materials and products, and batch and expiry date tracking give you end-to-end traceability to stay industry compliant

  • Take your floor-level operations to the next level with Katana's Shop Floor App – easily create, set up, and remove shop floor operators, track time spent on tasks, and track real versus actual materials used

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    4.7 /5
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    Jeff
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    • Industry: Apparel & Fashion
    • Company size: 2–10 Employees
    • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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    • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

    Katana has made a huge improvement to our business process!

    Reviewed on 16/12/2020

    I was extremely happy to find this app after months of struggling to keep track (using a spreadsheet...

    I was extremely happy to find this app after months of struggling to keep track (using a spreadsheet) of current quantity for

    1.) In stock blank shirts (various colors and sizes)
    2.) Ordered blanks (various colors, sizes, and suppliers)
    3.) Sales of finish products (various styles, colors, sizes, and designs.)

    Making a Purchase Order list took way to long to complete each day. With Katana, tracking what we have and what we needed got so much easier and I was able to focus on more important business decisions. Before Katana I was over and under ordering ingredients.

    I would recommend this app to anyone who uses Shopify and wants to make managing inventory of raw materials, ingredients, and sales orders easier.

    Pros

    Improved our ability to track shared ingredients for the products we sell.
    Easy to know what quantity of ingredients to buy and who to buy it from.
    Connects to Shopify and updates automatically.
    Amazing customer support.

    Cons

    It took some time to learn the software and create ingredients for each product - but is worth while.

    Response from Katana Technologies

    Thank you!

    ELLOWYN
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    • Industry: Consumer Goods
    • Company size: Self Employed
    • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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    • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

    Great choice for small manufacturer

    Reviewed on 6/9/2019

    I tried several different MRPs before settling with Katana. Some were too clunky, others too...

    I tried several different MRPs before settling with Katana. Some were too clunky, others too expensive, complicated and elaborate. I felt a bit like Goldilocks. Katana was just right. Reasonably priced. Integrating with Quickbooks and Shopify was simple and efficient. The set up was fast. I no longer have to duplicate data entry onto multiple systems. This saves me times and I don't lose track of orders or inventory. I especially like the instant chat feature with their customer service reps. I can leave a quick message or screenshot of a problem and within a day or so, I have a response back and my problem resolved. No need to hire an expensive consultant, anyone could set up Katana and run it.

    Pros

    Very simple user-interface
    Was able to set it up quickly and efficiently
    Continual feature upgrades
    Simple integration with Shopify & QuickBooks
    Very responsive customer service
    Detailed, but not overwhelming

    Cons

    The upload from Excel was clunky and not helpful. It was faster to just enter in the data directly.
    There are features I look forward to having but that are not currently available. I know their team will be releasing them in the next year.

    Alternatives Considered

    ERPAG

    Reasons for Choosing Katana Cloud Manufacturing

    Odoo is a beautiful all-in-one platform that seemed to be the perfect solution to tying my entire business together. However, it doesn't "play" well with Shopify and social media platforms which both are essential to my business. Any customization requires an extra fee each month plus the cost of the custom 3rd party app. Set up was complicated and when I needed help, I was pressed to pay $10k for a customer service package. For a small business, that's a lot to shell out. If I were a large company and could pay to have it all set up and administered correctly, I'm sure Odoo would be an excellent choice. But for a one-woman show, it was just too much to juggle.

    Switched From

    Odoo

    Reasons for Switching to Katana Cloud Manufacturing

    Erpag was about the same price at the time and had a few extra features that I liked (barcode integration for example), but the user interface was just really clunky. It reminded me a lot of my days in 90's Windows. Lots of tabs and block colors. When I added a demo set of data in, it didn't seem too difficult to use, but it just wasn't intuitive to me.

    Response from Katana Technologies

    Thank you for the feedback!

    Bill
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    • 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 10/6/2022

    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!

    Marco
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    • Industry: Marketing & Advertising
    • Company size: 51–200 Employees
    • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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    • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

    Katana is great for inventory management and manufactury planing.

    Reviewed on 27/3/2023

    Pros

    The UX and UI of app. Literaly everyone n our team is able to work with Katana how it is simply.

    Cons

    Not very often but sometimes app kick me out and I have to log in again.

    Kelsey
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    • Industry: Health, Wellness & Fitness
    • Company size: 2–10 Employees
    • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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    • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

    Lifechanging

    Reviewed on 14/5/2020

    We make to order and we make to stock. We make standardized products and we also make private label...

    We make to order and we make to stock. We make standardized products and we also make private label custom products. Katana is the first platform I have found that supports what we do while also being affordable for a new business.

    Pros

    Katana delivers a lot of value. It fully covers my MRP needs while being affordable to a scaling business.

    Cons

    I would also like an option to dropship the products that I make for clients and I don't see a way to do that.

    Alternatives Considered

    QuickBooks eCommerce and Zendesk Suite

    Switched From

    Google Sheets

    Reasons for Switching to Katana Cloud Manufacturing

    Better functionality for custom made products. More affordable.

    Response from Katana Technologies

    Thank you for the feedback and support!

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    Katana Cloud Manufacturing FAQs

    Below are some frequently asked questions for Katana Cloud Manufacturing.

    Katana Cloud Manufacturing offers the following pricing plans:

    • Starting from: US$99.00/month
    • Pricing model: Subscription
    • Free Trial: Available

    Essential plan from $99 a month. Advanced plan from $299 a month. Professional plan from $799 a month.

    Katana Cloud Manufacturing has the following typical customers:

    Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000

    Katana Cloud Manufacturing supports the following languages:

    English

    Katana Cloud Manufacturing supports the following devices:

    Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile)

    Katana Cloud Manufacturing integrates with the following applications:

    2Ship, BigCommerce, Easy Insight, Ecwid, Extensiv Integration Manager, 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

    Katana Cloud Manufacturing offers the following support options:

    Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, 24/7 (Live rep), Chat

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