Katana Cloud Inventory
Katana Cloud Inventory
About Katana Cloud Inventory
Katana is a cloud inventory platform that provides manufacturers with a comprehensive MRP (Material Requirements Planning) software solution. The platform offers real-time visibility into inventory, enabling seamless inventory and production management.
With Katana, manufacturers can tap into the health of their inventory, including tracking material costs and ensuring they have sufficient materials for manufacturing at any given time. The software provides real-time alerts when new products need to be manufactured or when raw material shortages occur, allowing businesses to address issues immediately and maintain productivity. Katana's priority-based material requirements planning also helps manufacturers avoid stockouts, while its ability to track on-hand, committed, and expected stock amounts in real-time ensures a smooth flow of goods and materials.
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- Industry: Internet
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Weekly for Free Trial
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Taking my manufacturing business to a new level of efficiency and control.
Reviewed on 3/8/2023
It is very good, it allows me to have a complete vision of my business and make informed decisions...
It is very good, it allows me to have a complete vision of my business and make informed decisions based on the updated data.
Pros
It's great because with this platform, I have the ability to efficiently manage my inventory, work orders, scheduling and tracking, very good all in one place.
Cons
I think they could improve is in the flexibility of customization. Although it offers a wide range of features, sometimes I would like to be able to further customize certain aspects according to the specific needs of my business.
- Industry: Retail
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
A critical piece of our business that we can't live without
Reviewed on 28/7/2022
I love it. I've had great interactions with everyone on the team, and I can tell they want to help...
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!
- 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 Cloud Inventory
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: 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 Cloud Inventory
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: Machinery
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
First Impression KATANA - perfect fit for smaller companies which do not need a complex...
Reviewed on 21/8/2020
For our requirements, set-up and company size the best we could find and test!
We will manage...
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.
Katana Cloud Inventory FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Katana Cloud Inventory.Q. What type of pricing plans does Katana Cloud Inventory offer?
Katana Cloud Inventory offers the following pricing plans:
- Starting from: US$199.00/month
- Pricing model: Subscription
- Free Trial: Not Available
Starter plan from $179/month when billed annually. Standard plan from $359/month when billed annually. Professional plan from $799/month when billed annually. Professional Plus plan from $1799/month when billed annually.
Q. Who are the typical users of Katana Cloud Inventory?
Katana Cloud Inventory has the following typical customers:
Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500
Q. What languages does Katana Cloud Inventory support?
Katana Cloud Inventory supports the following languages:
English
Q. Does Katana Cloud Inventory support mobile devices?
Katana Cloud Inventory supports the following devices:
Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile)
Q. What other apps does Katana Cloud Inventory integrate with?
Katana Cloud Inventory integrates with the following applications:
2Ship, BigCommerce, Easy Insight, Ecwid, Extensiv Integration Manager, HubSpot CRM, JIKKO, Make, Online Auction System, Pipe17, Pipedrive, PrestaShop, Prospect CRM, QuickBooks Online, QuickBooks Online Advanced, Replyco, Salesforce Platform, Shift4Shop, ShipHero, ShipStation, Shippo, Shiptheory, Shopify, Shopify Plus, Squarespace, SyncHub, Wix, WooCommerce, WorkClout, Xero, Zapier, Zoey
Q. What level of support does Katana Cloud Inventory offer?
Katana Cloud Inventory offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, 24/7 (Live rep), Chat
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