In Katana, items refer to the core components of your inventory, encompassing raw materials (with variants), products, and subassemblies. They are categorized to facilitate better stock management, with attributes like SKU, cost, and inventory levels.

In addition to materials and products, there are service items, which don't involve your inventory and aren't part of any warehouse workflows.

Each item has a comprehensive item card, which includes relevant information like Name, Category, Variants, Variant codes / SKU, Sales price, Purchase price, Default supplier, Product Recipe, and Production Operations.

Items can be used on sales orders (SOs), manufacturing orders (MOs), and purchase orders (MOs) — service items can only be used on SOs.

Read more about creating products, creating materials, and creating services.

Items can be accessed by opening the Items screen from the top menu navigation.

On the Items screen, you'll find an Active tab and an Archive tab (depending on permissions). Select the Active tab and you choose either the Products table or Materials table.

In Katana, subassemblies are products, not materials. So, subassemblies are included in the Products tab.

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