For Irish small and medium businesses
Leanforge helps Irish SMEs find where operations are leaking money, time, and risk — then put it right.
Data analysis, automation, and reporting for retail, manufacturing, and service businesses across Ireland.
Built for real operations — shops, floors, and yards — not a software pitch.
Who it is for
Owners and managers who know something is off, and do not have a data team on staff.
Retail
KPIs such as inventory turnover, back orders, labour productivity and shrinkage — live through automated data pipelines, not only at quarter-end reconciliation.
Manufacturing
Downtime, overtime, scrap, and throughput, explained in the language of the shop floor.
Service businesses
Jobs, hours, and cash tied up in work that takes longer than it should.
Retail floors
Manufacturing
Stores and yards
Services
Outcomes, not a catalogue of tools.
Operational & Risk Analysis
Spot problems before they cost you
Identify inventory, cash-flow, quality, capacity and process risks early — before they become expensive problems.
Cost Optimisation
Find where money is leaking
Overstock, overtime, scrap, unused capacity and inefficient work — quantified and valorized.
Time & Operational Efficiency
Get hours back in the week
Reduce manual work, double handling, chasing, delays and rework — so your team spends more time on work that adds value.
Performance Reporting
Know what is happening in your business
A focused set of KPIs and insights, kept live — so you can make decisions based on what is happening now, not last month's spreadsheet.
Automation & Intelligent Analytics
Tools fitted to how you work
Forecasts, alerts, automation and AI-enabled tools built around your operation — used where they save time, reduce cost or improve decisions.
How it works
DMAIC — from the problem through to control
01
Define
The problem
02
Measure
What we need
03
Analyse
Current state
04
Implement
Technology and automation
05
Control
Governance and documentation
What you would see
A weekly picture of the operation — not a one-off report.
Performance reporting is a core deliverable. The sample below shows four weeks in one view, so the trend and the story are visible together.
Sample operations snapshot
Midlands retailer — four-week view
20 July – 10 August 2026
Gross margin
31.4%
-1.2 pts vs prior week
Stock cover
8.6 wks
-0.3 wks vs prior week
Shrinkage
1.8%
-0.3 pts vs prior week
Labour vs plan
+42 hrs
+24 hrs vs prior week
Stock cover — last week vs this week
- Grocery7.5 → 7.2 wks
- Fresh4.4 → 4.1 wks
- Household11.8 → 11.4 wks
- Seasonal15.2 → 14.8 wks
Grey is last week; navy is this week. Gold mark is the six-week target.
Overtime hours — four-week trend
Overtime eased for three weeks, then rose again — the kind of movement a weekly view is meant to surface.
Not sure where to start? Let’s identify where the opportunity is.
Tell us about your business and the operational challenges you are facing. We’ll assess where improvements in cost, efficiency, performance or working capital could have the greatest impact.