Optimize production with job shop scheduling software for manufacturers
Streamline your operations, inventory, and sales with job shop software like Katana. Keep you and your teams organized, efficient, and focused with software designed to give you the shop floor visibility you need.
Check order progress with real-time job shop tracking software
Track your product life cycle from start to finish with job shop software like Katana. Monitor raw material usage, operational task progress, stock counts, and order fulfillment in one visual platform designed to give you total visibility.
Never lose control over your production operations
To make the right decisions at the right time, you need a live overview of your production. Job shop software allows you to track progress with sales and production orders in real-time, giving you a virtual window into your shop floor operations. By spotting delays before they happen, manufacturers can keep up with deadlines no matter how high demand is.
- Get a live floor-level production status overview
- View manufacturing orders and ingredient lists in Katana’s Shop Floor App to keep your teams aligned
Assign tasks and track time and resources spent
Improve your floor-level operations with direct access to production tasks and ingredient lists for each task with job shop tracking software like Katana’s Shop Floor App. Easily create, set up, and remove shop floor operators, track time spent on jobs, and measure real versus actual materials used to cut costs and time.
- Easily re-assign tasks to operators to maximize efficiency
- Generate shop floor tasks according to product operations for incoming manufacturing orders
- Add, set up, and remove shop floor operators effortlessly
Keep your teams and data in sync at all times
Managers, sales teams, and shop floor employees need access to the same information to keep their operations in sync. Job shop software gives everyone in your organization the knowledge they need to make the right decisions. No more miscommunication or mistakes when it comes to deadlines, scheduling, or stock counting.
- Add notes to manufacturing orders to be displayed for related tasks in the Shop Floor App
- Shop Floor App task status updates are automatically sent to your manufacturing ERP
Features
Getting your products to customers faster
Katana supports your workflows no matter your industry with the features and seamless integrations you need to manage your business how you want.
Take control of your inventory in real time
Katana’s Smart Inventory provides live, connected insights across all channels and locations — helping you maintain the correct stock levels. Track items in real-time, forecast demand with confidence, and manage costs without end-of-month surprises.
Stay ahead with demand-led purchasing
Track everything that’s purchased and trace its journey from supplier to production. Katana maintains a comprehensive record to support compliance, simplify audits, and facilitate prompt responses to recalls, strengthening trust in your company.
Manufacturing you can see, control, and deliver
Gain complete visibility into your entire production process. Plan capacity, allocate resources, and ensure materials are ready when needed. Live shop floor updates enable you to identify and resolve issues promptly, keeping production on track.
Manage orders seamlessly across all of your channels
Connect sales channels, such as Shopify, Amazon, or WooCommerce, to Katana to ensure that all orders sync automatically. Eliminate worrying about double entries, lost orders, or messy spreadsheets — just accurate, up-to-date data across every channel.
Reliably move stock in and out of warehouses
Supply your team with mobile access to real-time tasks, barcode scanning, and role-based views. The Warehouse App ensures that receiving, picking, packing, and transfers are completed accurately and on time, keeping inventory reliable and customers happy.
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Create custom API integrations
Use Katana’s open API to create custom workflows and connect to apps beyond our list of integrations. Automate data transfers between the services you use to level up efficiency. Take a look at our API documentation to learn more.
Katana integrates everything, making for effective company-wide resource planning and control.”
Danielle Louw
Production Manager at CT LAB
We needed help with Shopify inventory management for raw materials, and Katana exceeded our expectations.”
Pablo Baque
Walk With Me CEO
Having the shop floor know what they can or can’t make on a given day is amazing, and replaces our previous “system” of spreadsheets.”
Sara Varela
Founder and Designer at Sara Gabriel
As an organic food processor, traceability is critical and our records must be meticulously kept. Katana fulfills all our needs in a simple, easy solution.”
Irah Vet
Founder and Production Manager at Hornby Organic
Get visibility over your sales and stock
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