Leaner receives 'Leader' at ITreview Grid Award 2026 Spring

Leaner Technologies Inc. (Headquarters: Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director and CEO: Yusuke Ohira; hereinafter 'Leaner') announces that Leaner Purchasing and Leaner Quotation have received the 'Leader' award at the 'ITreview Grid Award 2026 Spring' announced by 'ITreview', a review platform for business IT products and cloud services.

■ What is the ITreview Grid Award?
'ITreview', a review platform for business IT products and cloud services, deploys the 'ITreview Grid', a unique four-quadrant map that grasps customer satisfaction and product recognition in the market based on reviews collected from real users.
In the 'ITreview Grid Award 2026 Spring' announced in April, products with excellent scores in both customer satisfaction and recognition were honored as 'Leaders' and issued badges, based on approximately 157,000 reviews gathered on ITreview.
The ITreview Leader is a prestigious title and a testament to the support gained from many users.

For details of the award, please refer to the dedicated page below.
URL: https://www.itreview.jp/award/2026_spring.html

Award category for Leaner Purchasing: 'Purchasing Management System'
https://www.itreview.jp/categories/purchasing-management
https://www.itreview.jp/award/2026_spring/purchasing-management.html

Award categories for Leaner Quotation:
'Quotation Management System for Procurement Departments'
https://www.itreview.jp/categories/quotation-management-for-procurement
https://www.itreview.jp/award/2026_spring/quotation-management-for-procurement.html

'Invoice and Quotation Creation Software'
https://www.itreview.jp/categories/invoice-management
https://www.itreview.jp/award/2026_spring/invoice-management.html

■ What is Leaner Purchasing?
Leaner Purchasing is a cloud service that centralizes all purchasing operations on a single platform—from product selection across multiple EC sites to ordering, approval, and inspection—thereby strengthening corporate governance, optimizing procurement costs, and improving operational efficiency, driving DX in purchasing operations.

Features
- Centralization of Purchasing: Completes the entire purchasing process within one system, advancing the visualization and centralization of purchasing information.
- Cost Reduction: By setting up company-recommended products and centrally managing them, it eliminates variations in purchasing prices, encouraging the consolidation of purchasing and cost reduction.
- Operational Efficiency: Consolidates the management of analog purchasing processes, decentralized EC sites, and internal catalogs, reducing the burden on accounting and administrative staff.

▷ Introduction to Leaner Purchasing in 3 minutes
▷ Optimal purchasing management system implementation guide derived from actual examples of success and failure

■ What is Leaner Quotation?
Leaner Quotation is a cloud service that digitalizes the 'quotation' process in procurement and purchasing departments, realizing advanced sourcing through the utilization of AI and data. It is a platform that visualizes the process from requesting quotations to comparison, negotiation, and supplier selection.

Features
- Digitalization of Quotation Operations and Centralization of Information: Completes the entire process on the system, from requesting quotes from suppliers to collecting replies and creating comparison tables. It databases previously scattered quotation information, making it easy to reference past performance and manage progress.
- Advanced Sourcing using AI and Data: Enables optimal supplier selection and estimated cost calculation from drawing data, as well as referencing AI-assisted price negotiations. By utilizing accumulated quotation data, it promotes evidence-based price negotiations and cost reductions.
- Governance and Knowledge Transfer: Automatically accumulates quotation replies and negotiation history, ensuring transparency.