Inventory

Connect Katana production with the inventory your channels sell.

Bring sales orders, production orders, committed materials, and finished stock together with channel activity. Help your team understand what is available and what is already planned.

Who they are

Connect manufacturing plans with channel demand.

Katana brings sales orders, production orders, committed materials, and finished goods into the manufacturing workflow. Unison connects that context with channel activity, helping teams coordinate product availability without treating planned production as finished stock.

Designed for teams that make their products.

For brands that build, assemble, or pack products in-house, open sales orders and production plans are important context alongside finished goods and channel demand.

See what is finished and what is committed.

Materials allocated to production and finished stock tell different parts of the inventory picture. Bringing those details together helps teams make availability decisions with better context.

Reads

Keep production and channel inventory in view together.

Connect Katana sales orders, production orders, materials, and finished stock with channel counts, so teams can see demand and production context together when planning availability.

Sales and make

Connect customer demand with production plans.

See open sales orders alongside production orders for the same SKU. Demand and manufacturing activity become easier to review together when your team considers replenishment.

Stock

Distinguish finished goods from committed stock.

Review on-hand finished stock, allocated units, and committed materials alongside channel inventory. Your team can make availability decisions using connected manufacturing context and reduce the time spent reconciling separate views.

Automations

Keep manufacturing decisions reviewable and people-led.

Use connected production and inventory information in AI-assisted workflows, while your team controls production orders and approved updates. Changes stay within the scope and review process your brand defines.

Held until approved

Your team controls production changes.

Releasing or changing a production order remains a decision for your team unless a specific update is agreed in scope. Any included change can be reviewed before it is applied.

API and MCP

Bring manufacturing context into AI workflows.

Make available Katana information about sales orders, production, materials, and stock useful in the AI workflows your team chooses. Your team defines which information and actions are in scope.

Team-owned work

Keep shop-floor work with the people who run it.

Shop-floor screens, confirmations, and work managed only in the Katana portal remain with your team. Unison complements the manufacturing process; it does not replace the people responsible for it.

A week with this connection

Make channel availability decisions with production in view.

Bring finished stock, open production, committed materials, and sales orders together with channel activity. Teams can see what is ready, what is underway, and which decisions still need the production owner’s review.

✓See demand and production together. Review channel activity alongside the production orders that support the same products.
✓Separate finished goods from work in progress. Keep the channel inventory picture grounded in the finished quantities your team chooses to use.
✓Keep production decisions with your team. People responsible for manufacturing remain in control of production order changes.
Katana · one SKU
sales order · booked
production order · still on the bench
materials · committed
finished goods · what channels may sell
Create the next make order
Held · waits for a person
The call

Shape a Katana connection around manufacturing priorities.

We’ll discuss how Katana fits your production process, who approves manufacturing changes, and how your channels should use finished stock and production context. Free assessment to explore the right scope with your team.

Production

Who owns production order decisions?

We’ll learn who releases production orders and which changes need a manufacturing owner’s review, so any agreed workflow respects how your team operates.

What the channels sell

How should channels use production context?

We’ll clarify whether channels should reflect finished goods only or account for production already underway, based on the availability approach your team chooses.

Workflow ownership

Who manages Katana day to day?

We’ll identify who manages Katana, which information supports your workflow, and which manufacturing decisions should stay with a person.

When counts disagree

Katana, or the channel.

We ask which count wins when finished goods in Katana and available-to-sell on a marketplace disagree, so the week has one number to follow.

Related

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Your stack

See how connected production context can support your team.

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