Workload-driven workforce planning and operational performance — for warehouses and teams that run on shifts.
Plan the week on your real workload, publish it straight to every worker's phone, measure what actually happened on the floor — then improve it, week after week. One login instead of a folder of spreadsheets, exports that fit your reporting, and a mobile companion app for the crew.
17+ years on the floor
Built by Kaizen Kanri — logistics, sales and management, lived, not consulted.
We work in English. Dutch is welcome in writing.Read why →
EU-hosted · role-based access · full change history · processing agreement and security pack downloadable before you enter any employee data. Security & GDPR →
Where Kanriva™ runs
Logistics & supply chain
Warehousing & operations
Healthcare & services
Retail & wholesale
Who is who
One company, three products — and no guessing which is which.
Kaizen Kanri builds and operates everything below. If you are here for warehouse planning, Kanriva™ is the product you are looking at; the rest is context.
The company
Kaizen Kanri
Dutch software company, KVK 42049431. Designs, builds, hosts and supports every product on this page.
The platform — what you buy
Kanriva™
Workload-driven workforce planning and operational performance for warehouses and shift-based teams.
Included with Kanriva™
FlowCrew™
The worker app: schedule, team, requests and day-linked chat in nine languages. Not sold separately, not an extra licence per phone.
Separate product · different market
BBMI-OAI
A compliance logbook for fire-detection installations (NEN 2654-1). Same builder, unrelated to Kanriva™.
Operations rarely fail because people work poorly. They fail when reality becomes fragmented, ownership becomes vague and short-term recovery is mistaken for control. K.A.N.R.I. is the operating method we built Kanriva™ around — five moves that run as one loop, at the speed of your shift.
K
Know
See the condition before judging performance.
A
Align
Turn shared reality into shared direction.
N
Navigate
Follow the work until the real constraint appears.
R
Respond
Restore control without destroying the evidence.
I
Integrate
Make the improvement survive the shift change.
A control loop, not five isolated tools.
Each move prepares the next. Incomplete knowledge produces false alignment. Weak alignment sends people in different directions. Poor navigation attacks symptoms. And without integration, the same problem returns next week.
Control today. Improve tomorrow. Learn every shift.
Not a slide deck. The five moves are built into Kanriva™ as working screens — the condition board, the response ladder and the metrics that show whether the loop is actually being run. Click any screenshot to see it full size.
Today — one screen, one next actionKnow — the condition board (K)Respond — the response ladder (R)Metrics — result and control behaviour
Demo data shown
Kanriva™
One place for planning, measuring and improving the work — built on the floor, for the floor. Live in production every day, in a real warehouse operation.
Live in production
One platform. Every shift, every pick, every number — under control.
Kanriva™ is the operating system for organisations that run on shifts, volume and deadlines. It plans the workforce against real workload, measures what actually happened on the floor, and turns the gap between the two into concrete improvement — in one login, with one source of truth. Planners stop rebuilding spreadsheets, team leads stop guessing, and management finally reads the same numbers as the floor.
Plans the week against the actual workload — volume in, required hours out, an explainable staffing recommendation per department that the planner confirms, published live to every worker's phone.
Measures the floor in real time: performance per person and per process, benchmarks, plan-versus-actual, overtime and surcharge bands calculated to the minute.
Runs continuous improvement end-to-end — improvement projects, audits, process mapping, action registers, goals and KPI dashboards that update themselves.
Keeps the operation accountable: shift handovers, absence and holiday control, documented personnel follow-up with role-controlled access, and a complete change history.
Fits how you already work — multiple sites, departments and client operations, access restricted per role and per module, Excel and PDF exports everywhere, your data in the EU.
Kanriva™ is in production at a fresh-produce logistics operation in the Netherlands and runs there every working day. The figures below are not the closing report of a finished pilot: they are the current position of an operation that is still using the platform, and several of them are still improving. One customer, honestly labelled — not an industry average and not a marketing model.
−23%worked labour hours
Same workload completed with 23% fewer worked labour hours
The headline result, and it is about hours rather than headcount. Planning against real volume instead of habit removed the chronic over-staffing that no spreadsheet made visible: the same workload output is delivered with 23% fewer worked operational hours, through better allocation across departments and shifts — not through job cuts.
+17%vs rolling-average baseline
Order-picking productivity
Picking analysis made performance visible per person and per process. The daily conversation moved from opinion to numbers — and the number kept moving.
< 1 hby hand · seconds assisted
Planning the week ahead
Building next week by hand now takes under an hour. Hand the same week to the built-in recommendation engine and the staffing proposal comes back in seconds, for the planner to review and confirm. Two honest conditions apply either way: the coming workload is communicated clearly, and deviations from the forecast stay within the expected margin. The platform does the arithmetic — it cannot invent volume nobody shared.
Also in daily use
The shift handover, turned into an information source.
Overdracht (shift handover) is fully digital and exportable on request for reports and overviews — no more notebook on the desk that only one person can read.
Carry-over: anything that needs prolonged attention travels with the handover from shift to shift until it is actually closed, instead of quietly dying at the end of a night shift.
Because every handover is dated, owned and searchable, it stops being a formality and becomes the record of what really happened on the floor.
Documented personnel follow-up sits alongside it: formal conversations, deviations and agreements in one role-controlled place — clearer accountability, fewer administrative complications around employment decisions.
On top of the software
The method that makes the numbers move.
6S and Gemba walks turn "the floor is a mess" into a dated action list with an owner — and a photo trail that shows whether it stayed fixed.
Plan-versus-actual closes the loop every week: where was the plan wrong, by how much, and in which department.
Audits, shift handovers and action registers leave a written trail, so improvement survives holidays, sick leave and staff changes.
How these figures were measured
Measurement period: five comparable operating months in the same warehouse.
Scope: all on-the-floor departments; office and support functions excluded.
Basis: worked operational hours, including temporary and agency labour and absence cover.
Management and training hours were not altered during the period.
Workload composition remained reasonably comparable across the period.
The picking figure is measured against a rolling-average baseline, not one favourable month.
These are single-customer results from an operation that is still running on the platform today, not a guarantee. We would rather show you how the numbers are produced — live, in the actual screens, including the ones that still need work — than promise you the same percentage. Book a walkthrough and judge for yourself.
Publishing a schedule in Kanriva™ puts it straight into the pocket of every worker — in their own language, on their own phone.
Sign in · Kanriva™ account
Shift Planner · AI suggest
Reports & Excel export
Workers, calendar & settings
Part of Kanriva™ · Mobile companion
FlowCrew — the worker companion app for Kanriva™
Your schedule, your team and your planner — in your pocket, in your language. Kanriva™ gives planners a powerful web dashboard; FlowCrew gives every warehouse worker a simple app on their own phone, designed to need no formal training, in nine languages. The moment a planner publishes the schedule it is live on every phone, and every chat or request is tied to a specific day — so nobody has to ask "which Friday did you mean?"
My Planning — a month calendar, colour-coded at a glance: green = planned (with the start time in the day box), blue = approved holiday, grey = free.
Team — who is in today, one day at a time. Workers see their own department; team leads and planners see every department.
Discuss schedule — one tap on a day opens a live chat with the planner about that exact shift.
Requests — a day off, a holiday range or a shift change, decided in the planner's inbox and pushed straight back to the worker.
Nine languages (EN · NL · PL · RO · BG · TR · ES · PT · UA), live notifications, live on Google Play for Android — iOS under consideration.
Part of the Kanriva™ platform · built by Kaizen Kanri
How we work
Small steps, measurable gains.
Kaizen Kanri runs lean engagements with a fixed scope. A pilot lands quickly, the floor reacts, the build adjusts. Scope and delivery dates are agreed up front, and what is not in the pilot is named rather than promised.
Tailored to your operation — no off-the-shelf compromises
17+ years of logistics, sales and management behind every build
Direct access to the people who design and support the platform
Built for the floor, validated by the floor
Fixed-scope pilots — you see results before you scale
Excel and PDF exports stay first-class citizens
Your data stays in the EU, with role-based access and a full change history
Existing tools (SAP, payroll, scanners) plug in, not get replaced
Understand
Walk the floor before drawing a single screen.
Design what fits
A workflow that matches your operation, not a generic tool.
Build & implement
Web-first, user-friendly, ready to scale.
Improve
Continuous adjustments — Kaizen, in practice.
Where we work
Wherever the operation lives in spreadsheets.
Industries change but the symptoms repeat: too many tabs, missing audit trails, a key person who knows the macros. Kaizen Kanri ships across logistics, warehousing, healthcare and retail because the underlying problem is the same operating muscle, badly supported.
Built by the person who had to make Monday morning work.
Kanriva™ was not conceived in a software boardroom. It was written by someone who has spent seventeen years inside operations — planning shifts, chasing volume, leading teams and answering for the numbers at the end of the week. That is not a biography detail; it is the design brief.
Most operational software is written from a specification. This was written from the pain: the Sunday-evening schedule rebuild, the three conflicting versions of the same spreadsheet, the productivity discussion nobody could settle because nobody trusted the figures, the handover that never happened because the outgoing shift lead was already in the car park.
So Kanriva™ is deliberately not a textbook platform with a feature for every theory. It is a painkiller: it plans the week against the workload you actually have, publishes it to every phone, measures what really happened, and shows the gap. Every screen exists because a real shift needed it — and the ones that stopped being useful were removed.
Logistics & operations
Inbound, outbound, picking, expedition — the daily reality of running a floor, not a case study about it.
Sales
What customers actually ask for, why deals stall, where margin quietly leaks out of an operation.
Management
Building, leading and steering teams that have to deliver again next week, with the people who showed up.
The fair question
And if Daniel is unavailable tomorrow?
Direct access to the builder is an advantage right up to the moment it becomes a dependency. So it is worth saying plainly what is in place — and what is not.
All source under version control
Every change is committed with history and can be reviewed, reverted and handed over. Nothing lives only on a laptop.
Written architecture per module
Each module ships with maintained architecture and handover documentation, so another engineer can pick it up without archaeology.
Managed EU hosting
The platform runs on managed infrastructure at Strato in the EU. It keeps serving your operation whether or not anyone is at a keyboard.
Your data is always exportable
Excel and PDF exports across every module, on demand, without asking us. Your history is never trapped in the platform.
Documented exit
Cancel and your workspace is retained for 30 days so nothing is lost by accident, then permanently deleted. No hostage data, no exit fee.
Company-held accounts, company-owned code
Domain, hosting and database accounts are registered to Kaizen Kanri, not to a private individual, and Kaizen Kanri owns the source code and holds the customer contracts. Continuity is a company asset, not a personal favour.
What is not formalised yet
Delegated emergency access to credentials for a second person, a written recovery runbook and a standby technical partner are not in place today. They are on the roadmap, and named here rather than implied — weigh them in your risk assessment.
Kaizen Kanri is deliberately small. It is not pretending to be a hundred-person vendor — it is making sure you are not taking an unmanaged dependency on one person.
What we build
Software tailored to one operation at a time.
Every engagement starts the same way: a walk through the operation, a notebook, a list of friction points the team already knows. Then we build the smallest thing that fixes the biggest of those, and iterate from there.
Custom operations software
Tools shaped around how your team already works. Web-based, mobile-friendly, no licences-per-seat lock-in.
Logistics & planning platforms
Inbound, outbound, shifts, KPIs — connected views that replace the spreadsheet pile your shift leads keep emailing each other.
Spreadsheets to real systems
When the master file is too big to open and one wrong cell breaks payroll, it is time. We migrate the logic without losing the history.
Process optimisation
Lean and Kaizen applied where it matters: on the floor, with the people doing the work. No theatre, no posters.
Dashboards & live collaboration
Numbers your team can act on, refreshed in real time, with sensible defaults so a new hire can read them on day one.
Workflow design
Validations, approvals, handovers — the boring parts that decide whether your operation runs quietly or noisily.
Modular by design
One platform. Only the modules you need.
Kanriva™ is fully modular. Run it as an all-in-one operations suite, or switch on just the parts that matter to you — say, Projects + Planning today, and add Workfloor when you grow. You're always in control, and so are we: access is granted per tenant, per module.
1
See it on your numbers
Book a 30-minute walkthrough, or open the demo tour first. Prefer to click around yourself? The 14-day trial unlocks every module — no card, no commitment.
2
Keep what you need
Run it all-in-one, or activate just the modules that fit your operation. Mix and match across Projects, Workfloor and Planning.
3
Agree a price & scale
When you know what you want, we agree a price with Kaizen Kanri based on your module mix — and you add more anytime.
Indicative platform pricing
So you know which budget conversation this is. Prices are per site, per month, and scale with the number of active workers in the workspace. Each band gives that number of workers and users full access to the platform, unlimited FlowCrew™ mobile access for your crew, updates and support — implementation and pilot scopes are quoted separately. Need only part of the platform? Leaving modules out brings the figure down accordingly; that is where the conversation starts, and your final price follows the module mix you actually use.
Active workers on site
Platform, per month
Up to 50 active workers
from €495
51 – 150 active workers
from €795
151 – 300 active workers
from €1,195
301 – 600 active workers
from €1,795
More than 600 workers
tailored enterprise pricing
Annual agreements and pilot scopes are quoted individually. No card is needed for the trial and nothing auto-renews.
Pick your modules
Projects
Continuous-improvement toolkit
DMAIC / Kaizen
6S Audits
Value Stream / Process Flow
KPIs, Goals & OKRs
Workfloor
Day-to-day warehouse operations
Expedition
Dockplanning
Order Picking
Damage Log
Checklists & Audits
Planning
Workforce & shift planning
Multi-site & multi-department planning
Workload-driven hours
Explainable staffing suggestions
Absence & holiday overlays
Teams
People & behaviour
Team management
Presence & documented follow-up
Roles & permissions
Messages
Stay in sync
Group chat
Real-time notifications
Shared context across modules
Always included
Dashboard, Archive, analytics and exports come with every workspace — whatever module mix you choose.
Free 14-day trial — every module unlocked
Try the whole platform with full access during your trial. Decide what you actually use, then talk to Kaizen Kanri about a price that fits your module mix. No card required, no auto-renew.
Tell Kaizen Kanri what your operation is wrestling with. Replies normally arrive within one business day, with a direct answer instead of a brochure. The first meeting is free, the rest is up to you.
Reply within one business day
Usually faster during CET business hours — written by the person who builds the platform.
30-minute scoping call
Walk through the current operation on a screen-share, held in English. No slides, no sales script.
Pilot-friendly engagements
Start small, scale only when the numbers earn it.
Available now · reply within one business day
Pick your channel
One click and your favourite app opens with a friendly opener already written. No web forms, no waiting on a server somewhere — the message lands directly in the inbox that gets read.
No forms, no spam, no newsletters. One real reply, written by hand.
Language & communication
We work in English — and we say that openly.
Kaizen Kanri is a multinational, multicultural project. Kanriva™ itself, the walkthroughs, onboarding, training and day-to-day support are delivered in English, because that is the language our team and our customers genuinely share.
Registered and operating in the Netherlands
A Dutch company, working to Dutch and EU rules — including the CAO logic built into the planning engine.
Dutch in writing, today
E-mail, documentation, contracts and the processing agreement are available in Dutch. The platform interface ships in English and Dutch.
Spoken Dutch: not yet a promise
Live calls, demos and support are held in English. We would rather tell you that now than let you discover it in the middle of a rollout.
If English is workable for the people who will use the system, nothing stands in your way — most teams find the product vocabulary is short and operational. Should that not fit your operation, tell us plainly and we will say honestly whether we are the right partner today.
When spoken Dutch support becomes available, it will be announced on this page first.