MRPeasy vs Katana

Software for Small Manufacturers

MRPeasy
Katana

Formal facts

Formal facts

Incorporated

February 2014

April 2017

MRP functionality

MRP 2 – full-blown Manufacturing Resource Planning software. Manufacturing ERP with production scheduling functionality:

  • capacity planning,
  • materials planning,
  • routings,
  • automatic operations scheduling based on available resources and lead times of materials,
  • calendars, Gantt charts.

MRP 1 – Material Requirements Planning software.

Limited production scheduling functionality.

No calendars, no Gantt charts.

Inventory management, traceability

Full forward and backward lot/batch and serial number tracking. Multiple stocks and production sites.

Stock movements accounting.

Barcoding.

Limited lot traceability (beta).

Storage locations.

No stock movements accounting.

CRM (Sales management)

Order processing from quotation to shipping.

Cost and delivery date estimation.

Invoicing.

Planning shipments and creating shipping documents.

Quotes and sales order tracking only.

No invoicing (not possible to create a sales invoice).

No shipment planning and shipping documents.

Procurement

Time-phased purchase requirements reports.

Detailed PO tracking through various processing and delivery stages.

Purchase invoices.

Low stock alerts.

PO tracking by delivery status.

No purchase invoices.

Shop-floor reporting

Two interfaces accessible from web and iOS/Android apps:

  • “My production plan” for highly detailed access, for tablets and computers.
  • “Internet-kiosk” for simplified access, designed for smartphones.

Web access with a simplified interface.

Accounting

Built-in accounting module.

No built-in accounting.

Target customer

Small and midsize manufacturing companies (10-200 employees)

Micro-companies, workshops.

Informal fact

The first in the world cloud-based Manufacturing ERP for small manufacturers.

Reliability starts with effective planning

MRPeasy users report a staggering 54% average improvement in overall performance and a 39% increase in on-time deliveries.

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More than 1500 manufacturers trust MRPeasy software

Reviews

Ann Richmond

Development Director, Randr

You guys are truly the best and the software is such a lifesaver for small companies like ours. Also just a note, our ISO auditors really liked everything that MRPeasy had. Everything is documented within the system!! And we do not need any additional systems.

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Benjamin Raffiani

CEO, Sox Trot

Best value in the small manufacturing space by far. With MRPeasy, our capacity doubled. It streamlined our production, and procurement so well that I’m now able to spend a lot more time on growth and sales. Extremely comprehensive and works seamlessly with Xero and Shopify.

Brandon Ames

CEO, Anicell Biotech

MRPeasy gives us the ability to track all of our manufacturing lot costs right down to the individual serial number of our products. MRPeasy provides the software as a remote service and has never been unavailable to us except in very rare maintenance windows.

Some of our customers

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