Katana MRP is a cloud inventory management software designed to help businesses manage their inventory in real time. It provides a centralized platform to track stock, materials, production, and delivery, ensuring efficient supply and demand alignment. Katana MRP helps businesses stay lean and efficient by eliminating stockouts and overstock.
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It's also directly integrated with your Seller Central account + you can use “bridge” connections between your Seller Central and Katana and QuickBooks, Xero, Shopify, BigCommerce or Woocommerce.
Features
Live inventory management
Real-time inventory data to prevent stockouts and overstock. This feature allows Sellers to track inventory levels across multiple locations and monitor arrival times for efficient order fulfillment
Purchase order management
Issue purchase orders directly from Katana MRP, track delay risks, and ensure on-time purchasing based on precise material requirements and reorder points.
Omnichannel sales management
Centralize order fulfillment operations from all sales channels in one intuitive overview. Manage sales orders from multiple e-commerce stores (Shopify, BigCommerce, Magento, Woocommerce…) or physical locations in one place
Production management
Optimize production scheduling, resource allocation, and manufacturing costs. Create bills of materials to maintain the right inventory levels for raw materials and finished products.
Financial visibility via cloud accounting
As discussed at the beggining of the review, you can send key financial data to QuickBooks Online and Xero to sync accounting with inventory data in Katana MRP. Convert purchase orders to bills and update invoices based on sales order statuses in real time.
Custom workflows via API
Use Katana MRP's open API to create custom integrations and automate data transfers between the services you use.
Integrations
Katana MRP integrates with various e-commerce, accounting, reporting and CRM tools. Here's the whole list, including the open API:
Native integrations
- BigCommerce
- QuickBooks Online
- Shopify
- WooCommerce
- Xero
Automation integrations
- Cart Rover
- HubSpot
- Integromat
- Pipe17
- Pipedrive
- Prospect CRM
- Salesforce
- SyncHub
Marketplace and ecommerce integrations
- Amazon
- eBay
- Ecwid
- Etsy
- Faire
- Magento
- Shift4Shop
- Squarespace
- Walmart Marketplace
- Wix
Reporting integrations
- Easy Insight
- SyncHub
Shipping integrations
- 2Ship
- Ship Theory
Pricing
Katana MRP has 4 pricing plans and a free 14-day trial with no credit card required.
Essential Plan – $129 / month
Includes:
- Up to 500 shipped sales order lines per month
- 1 full-access user
- 3 warehouses
- Access to all integrations available
- Live chat and email support
Advanced Plan – $349 / month + $600 implementation package (required)
Includes:
- Up to 5,000 shipped sales order lines per month
- 1 full-access user
- 3 shop floor operators
- Unlimited warehouses
- Access to all integrations available
- Live chat and email support
- Batch and expiry date tracking
- Get end-to-end traceability for materials and products
- Serial number tracking
- Track serial numbers for finished products
- Barcode scanning
- Use a barcode scanner to streamline stock management
- Multicurrency support
- Sell and purchase in multiple currencies with automatic daily currency conversion in Katana
- Access to the Katana Shop Floor App
- Manage production team task management with Katana’s obile-friendly web-based application
- Full access to Katana’s open API
- Create custom integrations with the services you love automatically move data between systems
- Custom PDF printouts
Advanced Plan – $749 / month + $600 implementation package (required)
Includes:
- Up to 5,000 shipped sales order lines per month
- 1 full-access user
- 3 shop floor operators
- Unlimited warehouses
- Access to all integrations available
- Live chat and email support
- Batch and expiry date tracking
- Get end-to-end traceability for materials and products
- Serial number tracking
- Track serial numbers for finished products
- Barcode scanning
- Use a barcode scanner to streamline stock management
- Multicurrency support
- Sell and purchase in multiple currencies with automatic daily currency conversion in Katana
- Access to the Katana Shop Floor App
- Manage production team task management with Katana’s obile-friendly web-based application
- Full access to Katana’s open API
- Create custom integrations with the services you love automatically move data between systems
- Custom PDF printouts
- Early access to new features
- Get early access to features still in development
- Additional support
- Priority live chat and email support
- Dedicated Customer Success Manager
Enterprise plan
You must ask for a quote. Includes:
- All Professional plan features
- Unlimited shipped sales order lines per month
- Tailored pricing based on your needs
- Dedicated support and advanced onboarding packages
Review
Katana MRP is recognized as an industry-leading inventory management software, but it's also one of the most expensive ones. The main problem is that they force you to pay for the $600 implementation package which makes it an expensive set-up fee (it's a one time payment).
On the feature side it's absolutely packaged with everything you need for inventory and order management and it has a wide range of integrations available. The fact that you can access unlimited warehouses directly on the second more cheap plan it's also a huge advantage versus their competitors. Finally, their API will give your developers everything you need to connect custom ERP or CRM tools, but it only comes with the Professional plan, which might be quite expensive considering it's $799 (discounted from the original $999 original pricing)
Our score
- Number of features (5)
- Pricing (3)
- Learning curve (4)
- User friendly (5)
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