Case Study: Essence One achieves real-time inventory and production visibility with Katana

Essence One unites their team and syncs inventory with Katana

Essence One is a Minnesota-based wellness brand that makes handcrafted personal care and aromatherapy products and faces strong seasonality and one-off wholesale projects. Their small team struggled with inaccurate inventory, a whiteboard-based scheduling system, and limited visibility into product lifecycles and manufacturing costs, so they looked for an end-to-end manufacturing ERP and chose Katana.

Katana delivered a centralized solution—using the Shop Floor App, Shopify integration, and Pro plan features like batch tracking—so Essence One could replace the whiteboard, sync web orders automatically, assign and schedule tasks, and get a real-time view from sales to production. As a result, Katana boosted inventory and production visibility, enabled end-to-end traceability for regulatory needs, helped the team scale with seasonal staff, and supported ongoing monthly sales growth and larger wholesale accounts.

Essence One

Alaina Oehrlein

Production Lead