Orders that enter themselves
They arrive in Katana, Fishbowl or your ERP and get checked against real stock and open work orders.
A buyer emails an order. It should land in production, checked against real stock, with a confirmation already on its way back. Most plants run production, sales, shipping and accounting in separate tools. We make them agree.
Carrying data from one system to the next by hand is slow, error-prone and costly, and it isn’t what they’re here for. It’s not a people problem. It’s a plumbing problem.
Here's the usual path of a wholesale order. It arrives by email or a buyer's portal. Someone checks stock, keys it in as a sales order, then separately tells the buyer when it's scheduled. Four steps, all by hand.
Meanwhile the numbers drift. Shop floor counts and the books stop matching, costing gets fuzzy, and nobody quite trusts what's on the screen. The cure isn't a new system. It's making the ones you already own talk.
A contract manufacturer running Katana for production, selling through its own site and two wholesale accounts.
Wholesale orders land in Katana automatically as soon as they arrive, checked against live stock and production capacity, with a confirmation sent back to the buyer without anyone touching the order in between.
Same people, same tools. The difference is who carries the data.
Without usAn emailed wholesale order is keyed in as a sales order.
With usThe order entered production planning on its own.
Without usSomeone checks stock, then writes the buyer a confirmation.
With usStock was checked on arrival and the buyer got a scheduled date.
Without usShop floor counts and the books disagree again.
With usFloor movement updated inventory and accounting together.
Without usPurchasing works from a reorder point set two years ago.
With usReorder alerts carried real sales velocity.
They arrive in Katana, Fishbowl or your ERP and get checked against real stock and open work orders.
The buyer gets a scheduled date the moment the order is accepted.
Movement on the floor updates inventory and accounting together. Production and finance finally see one count.
Actual material and labor flow to the books per job, so margin isn't a surprise at quarter end.
Reorder alerts carry real sales velocity, not just a number someone set two years ago.
Pages for the software we already integrate and automate.
Yes, and it's the usual case. Most of the work is connecting the ERP to what surrounds it: the order inbox, shipping, accounting.
Often, yes. If your process is unusual we build it into the workflow instead of asking you to change the process.
Walk us through inbox to shipment. We'll mark the steps a person doesn't need to touch.
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