Top 10: Inventory Management Platforms

Inventory management is a crucial part of manufacturing, affecting companies of every size.

Poor inventory management can result in massive unnecessary costs as well as lost time and uncaptured revenue. 

Inventory management platforms come into this by taking the strain of the manufacturer and dealing with the administration in an automated way, saving time and money. 

Manufacturing Digital has ranked 10 of the top inventory management platforms.

10. Epicor Kinetic

CEO: Steve Murphy
Headquarters: Texas, US
Founded: 1972

Epicor’s Kinetic is a global cloud ERP software solution designed for and with manufacturers, offering its customers real time business intelligence which features a built in collaboration tool.

Kinetic assists customers with managing demand against supply with advanced tools for forecasting, materials requirement planning, advanced planning, scheduling as well as sourcing.

The software can help manufacturers listen to the signals of the plant floor with data collection, and has IoT-enabled MES which provides oversight into equipment, efficiency and metrics.

9. Syspro

CEO: Leanne Taylor
Headquarters: Tustin, California
Founded: 1978

Syspro is a purpose built ERP platform for manufacturing and distribution. Founded in 1978, its modern cloud platform combines AI capabilities with decades of industry expertise.

The company serves more than 15,000 licensed companies in over 60 countries worldwide, with 300,000 active end users. 

Syspro’s industry-built inventory management ERP solution allows manufacturers and distributors to have real-time visibility across the supply chain.

8. Acumatica

CEO: John Case
Headquarters: Washington, US
Founded: 2008

Acumatica offers inventory management solutions to a variety of companies. It offers marketplace solutions including inventory extension capabilities to retail connectors, resources for inventory management, a distribution pricing calculator and an ROI calculator. 

Acumatica says it can maintain customer, vendor and internal cross‑references with unit‑of‑measure conversions as well as managing both stock and non stock items in a single system.

Its inventory management solution can operate across multiple warehouse locations.

7. Unleashed Software

CEO: Jon Jorgensen & Chris Bayne (The Access Group)
Headquarters: Auckland, New Zealand
Founded: 2009

Unleashed Software offers cloud based manufacturing inventory software to more than 26,000 active users. The company says that stock levels through its software update live whenever goods are bought, sold, moved or used in production.

Its product features for manufacturing include Custom API, B2B eCommerce portals, accounting integrations, purchase order control and barcode scanning. 

With over 77,000 sales orders processed and more than 24.8 million stock items processed have grown massively from its roots in 2009, when the company was founded by Terry Patmore and Greg Murphy, who was previously a warehouse manager. It is now owned by The Access Group, which announced its acquisition of the company in 2020. 

6. Odoo

CEO: Fabien Pinckaers
Headquarters: Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Founded: 2005

Odoo offers real time inventory management with a variety of features: serial numbers, lots, packaging, reservation strategies, cycle counting and KPIs.

The company says its inventory management software can help businesses never run out of stock with its replenishment strategies and min-max rules. 

Its software can assist with wave picking, cluster picking and batch picking. It has a fast barcode scanner and its app can give real time reports on stock, inventory moves and production. 

Ovoo also offers hardware such as USB scanners, Bluetooth scanners and mobile computer scanners to assist with its app for inventory management. 

5. Cin7

CEO: Ajoy Krishnamoorthy
Headquarters: Colorado, US
Founded: 2012

Cin7s inventory management software can connect suppliers, warehouses and sales channels into one real time system. It offers customers visibility across every product and component. 

With more than 125 million orders processed per year and over 85,000 Cin7 customers, Cin7 achieved upwards of US$35bn in sales over the last year.

The company say its all-in-one cloud solution integrates purchasing, production, inventory and warehouse management, POS, EDI, and 3PL to streamline supply chains.

Writing in a LinkedIn post, Cin7 CEO, Ajoy Krishnamoorthy, said: “In 2026, our focus is clear: optimise product experience, remove friction, and help you grow faster, from AI-powered insights to expanded payments, integrations and smarter warehouse workflows.”

4. MRPeasy

CEO: Konstantin Klugman
Headquarters: Tallinn, Estonia
Founded: 2014

MRPeasy describes its product as an AI-powered MRP software for small manufacturers. In inventory management, customers can track inventory by lot or batch, using serial numbers and barcodes.

It built one of the first cloud-based manufacturing ERP platforms in 2014, offering user-friendly software-as-a-service that covers everything from production planning to CRM. Built for small manufacturers, the company says it skips all the features that are too complex or irrelevant.

MRPeasy was ranked at 680 in the Financial Times’ list of Europe’s 1000 fastest growing companies for 2026. It was founded in Estonia by Konstantin Klugman and Mait Mikelsaar.

3. Fishbowl Inventory

CFO: Spencer Watts
Headquarters: Utah, US
Founded: 2001

Fishbowl Inventory describes its product as an inventory management system suitable for small and medium size businesses to take complete control of warehouse and manufacturing processes. It offers real time inventory management. 

Its product features end-to-end with Agentic AI offering AI replenishment, the ability to edit BOMs/WOs mid-build and Constraint-aware rescheduling. Fishbowl Inventory offers built in AI forecasting and insights.

In February 2026, Fishbowl announced the launch of AI Manufacturing, which embedded Juno, an AI assistant, that assists with checking materials, flagging shortages and preparing orders. 

Fishbowl says its solutions are trusted by 6,000 manufacturers worldwide. 

2. Katana Cloud Inventory

CEO: Kristjan Vilosius, Ben Hussey
Headquarters: Tallinn, Estonia
Founded: 2017

Katana offers built in inventory, production and reporting features to give its customers an end-to-end inventory management solution.

The platform offers its customers multi-location support, reorder points that can avoid stockouts, tracking of serial numbers, multichannel inventory and tracking of product availability.

It has native integrations to ecommerce, accounting and shipping platforms. Katana’s services are used by more than 1,500 companies across 70 countries and 75 industries.

In April 2026, Katana announced its Modern Merchant Operating System alongside native Amazon FBA integration. It describes its Modern Merchant Operating System as a unified platform purpose-built for product brands selling across multiple channels and locations.

Ben Hussey, Co-CEO of Katana, said: “The line between manufacturer, retailer and wholesaler has disappeared. Today’s product brands make, buy and sell across every channel simultaneously and they deserve software that reflects how they actually operate.

“We built Katana to be the operating system for this new kind of merchant. Amazon FBA integration is the first proof point, but the vision is much bigger: one platform where brands can see, manage and grow their entire operation, no matter how many channels or locations they span.”

1. Oracle NetSuite

Executive Vice President: Evan Goldberg
Headquarters: Texas, US
Founded: 1998

Oracle NetSuite services are used by 43,000 customers in 220 countries and dependent territories all around the world. Netsuite is widely recognised as the world's first cloud computing software company. 

NetSuite’s inventory management software offers real-time visibility into inventory control and supply chain management measures, including inventory trends, stock on order and supplier on time performance. 

Oracle says its software helps users with inaccurate manual reporting, insufficient utilisation, inaccurate planning and lack of visibility. 

Using demand-based replenishment, NetSuite Inventory Management uses historical and seasonal sales data, average lead time and number of inventory days’ of supply to dynamically manage item reorder points and maintain preferred stock levels.

NetSuite helps thousands of manufacturing organisations like OSL Cutting Technologies Limited, Secrid and Western Global streamline and run their entire business in the cloud.

Oracle offers a complete solution for manufacturing organisations that require inventory management with dynamic replenishment, production planning, warehouse management, financial accounting and costing.