Katana

Katana is a cloud-based inventory and manufacturing management platform built for small to mid-sized product businesses — especially those that make, assemble, or produce goods. It is popular among direct-to-consumer brands, Shopify-based sellers, and small manufacturers in industries like food and beverage, cosmetics, jewelry, and specialty goods that need to manage raw materials, production, and finished goods inventory in one system.

The platform covers real-time inventory tracking across multiple locations, production planning with bills of materials and subassemblies, purchase order management, sales order fulfillment, and warehouse operations with barcode scanning. Katana connects sales orders from e-commerce channels directly to production workflows, automatically calculating material requirements and flagging shortages. It also supports batch and serial number tracking, lot-level traceability, and landed cost management including tariff tracking on purchase orders.

Logistics teams typically rely on Katana as a source of sales orders, purchase orders, manufacturing orders, and real-time inventory data. The system tracks what is in stock, what is committed to open orders, and what is arriving from suppliers — providing the operational data needed to coordinate fulfillment and replenishment. For businesses that manufacture or assemble products, Katana also surfaces material requirements and production schedules that feed directly into supply chain planning.