Katana Manufacturing ERP

Katana Manufacturing ERP

What Is Katana Manufacturing ERP?

Katana offers a manufacturing ERP 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.

Who Uses Katana Manufacturing ERP?

Manufacturers looking to utilise the best software on the market for manufacturing, sales, and accounting, and run it all from one user-friendly ERP platform.

Katana Manufacturing ERP Software - Track order fulfillment and material availability - Katana
Katana Manufacturing ERP Software - Production planning and sales order fulfillment - Katana
Katana Manufacturing ERP Software - Many integrations streamline manufacturing operations - Katana
Katana Manufacturing ERP Software - Manage manufacturing cost on BOM, production operations - Katana
Katana Manufacturing ERP Software - Real-time inventory control and sales order management - Katana

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Reviews of Katana Manufacturing ERP

Average score

Overall
4.7
Ease of Use
4.6
Customer Service
4.8
Features
4.3
Value for Money
4.6

Reviews by company size (employees)

  • <50
  • 51-200
  • 201-1,000
  • >1,001
Joshua
Joshua
Owner in US
Verified LinkedIn User
Warehousing, 2–10 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

Alternatives Considered:

The best for small manufacturing

5.0 3 years ago

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.

Katana Technologies Response

3 years ago

Thank you for the feedback and support!

Jared
Jared
VP Operations in US
Verified LinkedIn User
Food Production, 2–10 Employees
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source

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The MRP system I wish I'd always had

5.0 2 years ago

Comments: 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.

Gonzalo
Productivity Advisor in Australia
Food Production, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source

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1.0 last month New

Comments: Very easy to start. Lack of a lot of important functionalities by the time of use. Overpriced by the functions provided.

Pros:

Customer Service and easy to use at the beginning

Cons:

It appears to be that the designers and programmers have never worked in a company. *No discounts or price difeerentiation*Lack of point of sales*Very low scanning functionality*Not differentiated user rights*No history of document changes*Buggy

Mary Ellen
ecommerce manager in US
Retail, 2–10 Employees
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source

It's a good start

4.0 4 months ago

Pros:

We like having the ability to make manufacture orders so everyone involved can see what's been planned and when it's due. The ability to prioritize orders is very helpful for assigning inventory.

Cons:

Identifying products that are ready to ship on each order is cumbersome. Our customer service team has to click individually into each order to see if any items are ready to ship. There's no way to easily flip to the next order. You have to close that window & click on the next order. It would be nice if you could at least toggle between orders within an order window. We'd also love to see some kind of drop down or hover-over feature that would quickly show you if partial shipments are available.

Rebecca
Owner in US
Food & Beverages, 2–10 Employees
Used the Software for: 1-5 months
Reviewer Source

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5.0 last year

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.