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When off-the-shelf software falls short, we help your people fill the gaps.

Your systems aren’t broken — they’re just incomplete.

Most manufacturing teams already use ERP, inventory, scheduling, estimating, or quality software. The problem isn’t that those tools exist — it’s that they don’t fully support how the work actually happens.

That’s where LeanGo comes in.

The Real Problem We See

Off-the-shelf systems are designed to solve common problems.
Your operation has specific ones.

So, teams end up with gaps like:

  • The numbers don’t match what’s actually happening

  • Information gets entered, but decisions don’t change

  • People double-check or re-enter data to be sure it’s right

  • Problems aren’t visible until they affect cost, quality, or delivery

    These gaps don’t feel like “IT problems.”
    They feel like daily frustration, rework, and wasted time.

When Software Doesn’t Fit, Teams Have Three Options

Option 1: Maintain an Offline Process

Teams keep spreadsheets, paper forms, whiteboards, or side systems to make the work function.

  • Familiar, but fragile

  • Hard to sustain

  • Dependent on specific people

  • No real visibility or accountability

Option 2: Force the Off-the-Shelf Tool

Teams try to automate inefficiencies by bending a system to do something it wasn’t designed to do.

  • Workarounds on top of workarounds

  • Extra steps and clicks

  • Frustration on the floor

  • Data that’s technically “captured” but not useful

Often this creates more obstacles than the original problem.

Option 3: Close the Gaps with Built Solutions

This is where LeanGo helps.

We work with your people to:

  • Identify what’s missing

  • Understand how the work actually happens

  • Build simple applications that fill the gap — not replace your core systems

These tools connect to what you already use, without disrupting it.

How LeanGo Uses Applications

We’re not selling you apps.
We use application development as a problem-solving tool.

Applications help when:

  • Information needs to be captured quickly at the front line

  • Decisions depend on timely, accurate input

  • Workflows cross departments or systems

  • Standards need to be followed consistently

  • Visibility is required to sustain improvement

Apps exist to support people, not the other way around.

Problems We Commonly Solve with Applications

Inventory & Material Flow

  • Capturing real usage when ERP doesn’t

  • Tracking shortages, substitutions, or staging

  • Supporting pull systems and flow

  • Closing the loop between planning and execution

Outcome: Less chaos, fewer surprises, better flow.

Quality & Compliance

  • Simplifying nonconformance reporting

  • Closing corrective action loops

  • Making standards easier to follow

  • Turning quality data into action

Outcome: Fewer repeat issues, faster response.

Estimating & Cost Gaps

  • Capturing real labor or cycle time data

  • Comparing estimate vs reality

  • Supporting better future quotes or planning

  • Giving teams feedback on where cost is really coming from

Outcome: Better decisions, not just better spreadsheets.

Maintenance & Reliability

  • Making it easier to log issues

  • Connecting daily problems to maintenance priorities

  • Supporting PM execution and follow-through

Outcome: Less firefighting, more stability.

Improvement & Accountability

  • Tracking improvement ideas and actions

  • Making ownership visible

  • Supporting daily and weekly routines

Outcome: Improvements don’t fade after kickoff.

How Apps and Analytics Work Together

Applications capture what’s happening where the work happens.
Analytics help teams see patterns, trends, and priorities.

Apps without analytics create busywork.
Analytics without good apps create blind spots.

We design both to support better daily decisions.

How We Build Applications

Start with a real Cost, Quality, or Delivery problem

  1. Observe the process with your people

  2. Identify the gap your systems don’t cover

  3. Co-create a simple, focused solution

  4. Connect it to your existing systems

  5. Use analytics to support decisions and sustainment

The result is not “another system” —
it’s less friction and more clarity.

What Makes This Different

We don’t replace your ERP or core systems

  • We don’t force your team into rigid software

  • We don’t build tools in isolation

  • We don’t lead with features

We solve real operational problems using applications as one of the tools.

Dealing with gaps your systems don’t solve?

Start with a Free First Working Session.
We’ll help you identify where the gap is — and whether an application, analytics, or a simpler fix makes the most sense.