Zapier app spotlight: Katana

No matter how you look at it, creating an efficient manufacturing process is a must—but that doesn't mean it's easy. In fact, managing all the moving parts of your business is tough. From inventory management to sales tracking, there's a lot that can slip through the cracks.

Fortunately, Katana, a manufacturing resource planning (MRP) tool, gives you visibility and control into your inventory, sales, and beyond.

Katana origins: Rethinking the manufacturing management process

The founders of Katana believed that no industry should be left behind in the digital age—and modern-day manufacturers needed an operating system that could keep up with their growth. Thus, Katana was born.

Beginning as a small team of about six, Katana built its first prototype in June of 2017. Less than a year later, Kantana went live in early 2018. Starting just as an inventory management tool, Katana evolved into software built to give you clarity and control over inventory, plus sales and production—all in one place.

Did you know? Currently, Katana is the only MRP selected as a Shopify Plus certified partner.

Katana today: An end-to-end manufacturing solution

While their first clients were based in the U.S., Katana now operates in over 60 countries (and counting). Today, Katana makes the end-to-end manufacturing process smoother by giving you insight into the information you need across all stages of your manufacturing flow. With Katana, you can boost your efficiency and align your teams with features like live inventory management, real-time master planning, total shop floor control, purchase order management, production planning, and more.

By integrating with top accounting software, payment platforms, customer management systems, and more, Katana also automates data flow between the services you use most.

Fave feature: Katana makes it easy for you to select and use multiple currencies so you can automatically convert sales order values and get accurate sales data.

Acceleration through automation: Popular Katana workflows

By pairing Zapier and Katana together, you can streamline your manufacturing process even more by creating automated workflows—called Zaps—that streamline work across all your platforms. Here are a few of our most popular workflows to get you started:

Create Katana sales orders from new rows on Google Sheets

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Getting control over your sales orders is crucial for scaling your business. Using this integration allows you to centralize and generate sales orders automatically when you implement Google Sheets with Katana. Once set up, every new row that's added to a selected Google Sheets spreadsheet, Zapier will create a new sales order in Katana, helping you onboard your data during set-up or simplify importing orders outside of Katana.

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Create Katana sales orders from new orders in Amazon Seller Central

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Amazon Seller Central + Katana

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It’s easy to lose track of your orders when juggling your sales and manufacturing between two apps. This integration allows you to automatically import your orders from Amazon Seller Central to Katana, reducing your lead time and headaches of monitoring your sales and manufacturing orders.

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Add Katana customers from new rows on Google Sheets

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No more running between different places to find your customer details. Using this integration will help you add customer's details and save them automatically when you implement Google Sheets with Katana. Once set up, every new row that's added to a selected Google Sheets spreadsheet, Zapier will create a new customer in Katana, helping you onboard your data during set-up or simplify importing customers outside of Katana.

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Create Katana sales orders from new orders in BigCommerce

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BigCommerce + Katana

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Manufacturers looking for more control over their business can easily centralize their sales and manufacturing orders to one dashboard using Zapier. The BigCommerce X Katana integration allows you to synchronize the eCommerce platform to the Smart Manufacturing Software, giving you a channel to monitor your incoming sales from BigCommerce, and the tools to improve production runs with Katana. Automation to bring all your business processes to one place.

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Create Katana sales orders when new Pipedrive deals match filters

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Pipedrive + Katana

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Integrate your sales and manufacturing orders by automatically generating sales orders within Katana once a Pipedrive deal matches your defined filter. No more losing track of your orders. Once you’ve easily set up how your Pipedrive deals import to Katana, you’ll have the tools to automate and centralize your business onto one dashboard.

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Katana: App spotlight

How this app helps you streamline your manufacturing

Katana origins: Rethinking the manufacturing management process

Katana today: An end-to-end manufacturing solution

Acceleration through automation: Popular Katana workflows

Create Katana sales orders from new rows on Google Sheets

Create Katana sales orders from new orders in Amazon Seller Central

Add Katana customers from new rows on Google Sheets

Create Katana sales orders from new orders in BigCommerce

Create Katana sales orders when new Pipedrive deals match filters

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