Can Keyhole integrate with existing ERP, WMS, or TMS platforms?

Absolutely. Much of our work involves integration and orchestration rather than replacing core systems. We’ve integrated with: ERP systems (SAP, Dynamics, and others) WMS/TMS tools and third-party logistics platforms CRM and customer portals Custom line-of-business and legacy mainframe systems We build APIs, services, and data pipelines to bring these systems together into cohesive, reliable workflows.

Does Keyhole integrate with existing carrier, CRM, or data platforms?

Absolutely. We regularly connect insurance systems with Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics, Duck Creek, Guidewire, and third-party rating engines. Our consultants build secure RESTful or GraphQL APIs and event-driven pipelines using Azure Service Bus or Kafka for real-time synchronization .

Are your consultants onshore? Do they work directly with our business and operations teams?

Yes. All Keyhole consultants are 100% U.S.-based employees. They work directly with your technical and operational stakeholders—plant managers, operations directors, supply chain leaders, and IT teams—to understand the reality on the ground and design solutions that fit.

Can you modernize legacy applications without disrupting plant or warehouse operations?

Yes. We specialize in gradual, low-risk modernization. Rather than “rip and replace,” we typically: Analyze current workflows and system dependencies Introduce APIs, facades, or integration layers around legacy systems Incrementally move functionality into modular services and modern UIs Partner closely with operations and IT teams to plan cutovers and rollouts The goal is to reduce risk, avoid downtime, and preserve what’s working while improving what’s holding you back.

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Our 100% U.S.-based senior engineers help manufacturers, industrial enterprises, and supply chain organizations modernize legacy systems, improve operational visibility, and connect production, inventory, and logistics data into cohesive, reliable platforms.

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Keyhole Experts Have Been Trusted by 250+ Manufacturing, Industrial & Supply Chain & Enterprise Organizations

Custom Software Solutions for Manufacturing, Industrial & Supply Chain

Our team of 100% U.S.-based senior software consultants brings deep experience across factory operations, field services, inventory management, and multi-node supply chains. We specialize in complex, long-lived enterprise systems that require reliability, traceability, and integration with existing infrastructure.

Production & Operations Systems

Keyhole helps manufacturers modernize plant-floor applications, scheduling tools, and production tracking systems that integrate with MES, ERP, and quality systems, providing real-time visibility and supporting continuous improvement—without disrupting existing operations.

Inventory, Warehouse & Fulfillment

Keyhole builds custom Warehouse Management Systems (WMS) and inventory solutions that enhance accuracy, traceability, and throughput across warehouses and distribution centers.

Supply Chain & Distribution Platforms

We create end-to-end supply chain tools that connect data across suppliers, distributors, and customers. Our expert consultants build systems for routing, load planning, tracking, and forecasting that supports business-critical decisions.

We help supply chain and distribution clients connect the dots across suppliers, distributors, and customers with software that supports:

End-to-end supply chain visibility and SKU-level tracking
Order routing, load planning, and distribution management
Data aggregation and analytics for demand forecasting and capacity planning
Tight integrations across ERP, CRM, WMS, TMS, and 3PL systems

Field Service, Inspection & Asset Management

We develop field-ready applications for inspections, maintenance, and compliance reporting that integrate with central systems to improve reporting speed, reduce errors, and strengthen regulatory compliance.

We’ve built, modernized, and integrated systems that support production lines, maintenance crews, distribution networks, and large multi-site operations—designed around reliability, safety, and real-world constraints on the plant floor and in the field.

Why Choose Keyhole for Manufacturing, Industrial & Supply Chain Software?

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Our Experts Drive Results in Manufacturing, Industrial & Supply Chain

Our team of senior consultants brings deep expertise across warehouse & inventory management, distribution optimization, and supply chain automation.

Senior consultants only—averaging 17+ years of experience & 100% U.S.-based

Nearly two decades of experience supporting Manufacturing, Industrial & Supply Chain clients

We routinely work in long-lived, business-critical systems where downtime and regressions are not an option. Our consultants have modernized:

COBOL, Model 204, and mainframe-based batch applications
Legacy Java/.NET monoliths that run production, dispatch, and inventory
Desktop and thick-client apps used on the plant floor and in warehouses

We design modernization strategies that protect operations while gradually moving to modular, cloud-ready architectures.

Proven success across manufacturing, supply chain, and industrial clients in regulated, high-stakes environments

We know that manufacturing and industrial environments often require alignment with safety, quality, and audit expectations. Keyhole consultants are experienced in:

Traceable workflows and audit-friendly data models
Role-based access control and secure integrations
Environments subject to OSHA, ISO, and customer/regulatory audits

We design systems with reliability, observability, and traceability in mind.

Expertise with AI, IoT, and data-driven automation

We plug in quickly, deliver quality from day one, and elevate internal teams through collaboration and knowledge transfer.

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Why Clients Trust Keyhole

We modernize systems using industry-leading frameworks and proven design patterns.

At Keyhole Software, trust is built on expertise, transparency, and a commitment to delivering real results. Our team consists of experienced software architects and developers who specialize in enterprise, microservices, cloud-native solutions, and legacy system modernization.

With decades of hands-on insurance-related experience, we don’t just follow industry best practices—we help shape them. Our software developers have worked on insurance software development solutions every day since Keyhole was established in 2008.

Honest communication and realistic timelines from experienced professionals.

Clients also trust Keyhole because of our unwavering commitment to honesty and transparency. We don’t overpromise—we provide realistic assessments, clear communication, and measurable outcomes. From modernizing complex legacy systems to architecting cutting-edge cloud solutions, we take the time to understand each organization’s unique challenges and tailor solutions that align with their business goals.

Our reputation has been built on delivering quality software, mitigating risk, and ensuring our clients get the best return on their technology investments.

We don’t just deliver software; we strengthen your in-house teams.

Beyond technical excellence, Keyhole Software prioritizes collaboration and knowledge transfer. We don’t just deliver solutions—we empower teams by mentoring in-house developers, introducing best practices, and fostering a culture of continuous learning.

Whether working as an embedded team or providing strategic consulting, we ensure that our clients have the tools and understanding needed to maintain and evolve their software long after our engagement ends. This approach fosters long-term relationships built on trust, knowledge, and proven success.

Recent Manufacturing, Industrial & Supply Chain Success Stories

With nearly two decades of experience supporting manufacturers, industrial operators, and supply chain organizations, Keyhole Software is a trusted partner for modernizing production workflows and mission-critical operational systems.

Our senior consultants help clients streamline plant-floor processes, replace manual and paper-driven workflows, improve inventory and warehouse efficiency, and unify supply chain visibility—leveraging cloud-native architectures, real-time integrations, and AI-powered automation to enhance accuracy, throughput, and scalability across the entire operation.

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Manufacturing Process Automation & Workflow Modernization

Keyhole partnered with a national manufacturing organization to modernize core production and order-management workflows, replacing manual, spreadsheet-driven processes with automated apps.

The engagement began as a targeted automation effort, but has been expanded repeatedly by the client for more than over 2.5 years due to measurable impact.

Keyhole delivered a suite of modern applications that digitized production-line processes and streamlined back-office operations. Using Electron, HTML/CSS/JavaScript, and JSON, the team built a lightweight desktop application for shop-floor environments with inconsistent network connectivity, enabling supervisors to view and manage runs with a simple, intuitive interface.

Complementary automation services were developed to generate and validate run data, populate master planning spreadsheets, and synchronize product and order information across multiple systems using Spring Boot, React/Next.js, REST APIs, SQL, and Microsoft COM (JInterop). The team also introduced automated testing (Jest/Cucumber), GitLab CI pipelines, Dockerized services, and Terraform-based infrastructure automation to improve reliability and accelerate delivery.

Over the course of the engagement, Keyhole has provided architectural leadership, reusable UI patterns, and iterative demos and feedback loops to ensure that every feature aligned to actual operational needs.

60 hours/week of manual work reduced to under 2 hours through automated planning and order workflows.
Significant reduction in sequencing and transcription errors, thanks to automated data flow and robust validation.
Real-time visibility and operational transparency across production runs, orders, and materials.
Higher throughput and better coordination between production, planning, and back-office teams.
Sustained partnership (2.5+ years and ongoing) driven by consistent value delivery, modernization momentum, and trust in Keyhole’s technical leadership.
Improved maintainability and scalability through modern CI/CD, testing frameworks, containerization, and infrastructure automation.

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Kansas City Southern Railway: COBOL Modernization with Microservices

Kansas City Southern Lines Railway selected Keyhole to strategize the large-scale modernization of its core railway management platform, migrating several million lines of legacy COBOL code to a modern, .NET Core microservices architecture on Microsoft Azure. This multi-phase initiative improved systems managing train logistics, financials, and mechanical operations.

Keyhole Software designed a comprehensive microservices blueprint and reference architecture that enabled Kansas City Southern to transition from legacy Visual Basic and COBOL systems to a modular, cloud-ready .NET ecosystem. This blueprint empowered an offshore development team to rapidly implement services with minimal ramp-up time.

Keyhole’s senior architects also implemented Angular front-end interfaces, Azure-based hosting, and CI/CD processes that streamlined deployment and supported both on-premise and cloud scalability.

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Security Dashboard Modernization & Cloud Integration

A national engineering consulting firm selected Keyhole to modernize and expand its Security Dashboard application—a mission-critical platform used to consolidate facility and operational security data into a unified, actionable view.

What began as a small enhancement effort grew into a multi-year modernization initiative focused on performance, scalability, cloud integration, and improved usability.

Keyhole senior engineers led a comprehensive modernization of the client’s Security Dashboard—a central system used to monitor and interpret safety, facility, and operational security data across multiple industrial sites.

The team improved the React/Next.js frontend for faster load times and clearer data presentation, and implemented AWS Cognito for secure, scalable authentication aligned with stringent enterprise standards.
On the backend, Keyhole enhanced Python/Django APIs and refactored the legacy monolithic architecture into modular FastAPI microservices, dramatically improving scalability and enabling independent deployment of critical services.
Operational workflows were improved by integrating Amazon S3 with the dashboard for seamless document management—allowing plant, site, and safety teams to upload, retrieve, and track security-related documents. A custom Lexical-based rich text editor further streamlined reporting and communication between analysts and field teams.

The modernized Security Dashboard delivered faster releases, improved system reliability, and a significantly enhanced user experience—empowering the client’s security teams to act on insights more efficiently.

The engagement proved so successful that the contract was extended multiple times, with the Keyhole consultant remaining with the client for more than two and a half years. The partnership concluded only due to organizational budget constraints, following a long-term record of strong collaboration and measurable results.

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We work with enterprise-grade, audit-ready frameworks, integration patterns, and cloud platforms that support high-availability operations, equipment automation, and real-time data visibility.

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TLS/SSL

JWT

EncryptionTransit & Rest

Role-Based Access ControlRBAC

This is only a subset of the technologies we’ve used recently. We’re happy to evaluate your environment and recommend the right modernization, automation, or cloud strategy for your Manufacturing, Industrial & Supply Chain operations.

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Use Cases & Solutions for Manufacturing, Industrial & Supply Chain

Insurance enterprises rely on modern software to enhance compliance, efficiency, and customer service. Keyhole consultants have delivered success for insurers, brokers, and insurtech firms—helping them digitize workflows and scale securely.

Manufacturers rely on custom software development to coordinate production schedules, material availability, and machine utilization. Keyhole Software helps manufacturers modernize plant-floor applications, scheduling tools, and production tracking systems.

We design and build solutions that integrate with MES, ERP, and quality systems, provide real-time visibility into bottlenecks, and support continuous improvement—without disrupting existing operations.

Engineering and industrial organizations need project, asset, and field operations systems that match the complexity of their work. Keyhole consultants build and enhance platforms that support project tracking, asset management, safety workflows, and field inspections, often integrating with CAD/PDM, document management, and financial systems.

Our focus is on maintainable, extensible architectures that can evolve alongside changing project and compliance demands.

Distribution centers and warehouses depend on accurate, real-time data to make decisions about inventory, labor, and routing. We develop and modernize custom WMS and inventory tools, implement barcode/RFID-based workflows, and integrate with TMS, ERP, and eCommerce platforms.

Our solutions help reduce mis-picks, improve dock-to-stock times, and provide actionable dashboards for operations leaders.

We also specialize in modernizing legacy warehouse systems, integrating seamlessly with ERP and Transportation Management (TMS) platforms to improve accuracy, speed, and throughput—at scale.

Complex supply chains require end-to-end visibility across plants, DCs, vendors, and customers. Keyhole builds data aggregation platforms and integrations that pull together fragmented information from legacy systems, cloud services, and partner APIs.

We enable real-time and batch analytics, forecasting dashboards, and exception-driven alerts so operations teams can respond proactively to disruptions, shortages, and demand shifts.

Industrial and manufacturing organizations often have mobile teams performing inspections, maintenance, and safety checks.

Keyhole creates offline-capable field applications for tablets and laptops that handle structured forms, photos, and signatures, then sync back to central systems when connectivity is available.

These tools help improve data quality, shorten reporting cycles, and support compliance with customer and regulatory requirements.

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Here are some frequently asked questions that our clients in the Manufacturing, Industrial & Supply Chain space have had:

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We work on long-lived, business-critical systems such as production tracking tools, custom MES-like applications, inventory and warehouse systems, dispatch and logistics platforms, inspection/field service tools, and the integration layers that connect them (APIs, batch jobs, and data pipelines).

Many clients engage us to modernize or extend systems that they can’t easily replace but need to evolve.

We offer flexible engagement models to meet your project’s unique needs:

Software Outsourcing
Our project management + software development team builds end-to-end solutions for you.

Dedicated Dev Teams
A fully integrated, dedicated consulting team works continuously on your long-term project.

Fractional & Advisory Services
Our senior software leaders provide strategic guidance to drive digital transformation.

Staff Augmentation
Our developers and specialized experts join your team to accelerate development.

Many manufacturing clients who engage us choose to embed senior consultants alongside their internal teams. We can:

Provide a small, high-impact team to lead modernization or a new initiative
Supply specialized expertise (architecture, cloud, integration, UI modernization)
Mentor your developers so they can sustain and extend the system after we leave

Engagements range from short architecture assessments to multi-year modernization partnerships.

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Absolutely. Much of our work involves integration and orchestration rather than replacing core systems. We’ve integrated with:

ERP systems (SAP, Dynamics, and others)
WMS/TMS tools and third-party logistics platforms
CRM and customer portals
Custom line-of-business and legacy mainframe systems

We build APIs, services, and data pipelines to bring these systems together into cohesive, reliable workflows.

Yes. We specialize in gradual, low-risk modernization. Rather than “rip and replace,” we typically:

Analyze current workflows and system dependencies
Introduce APIs, facades, or integration layers around legacy systems
Incrementally move functionality into modular services and modern UIs
Partner closely with operations and IT teams to plan cutovers and rollouts

The goal is to reduce risk, avoid downtime, and preserve what’s working while improving what’s holding you back.

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Whether you’re modernizing legacy applications, connecting plant-floor systems to the cloud, or building the next generation of supply chain tools, our senior engineers can help you move forward with confidence.

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Manufacturing, Industrial & Supply Chain

Software Development.

Expert Software Development & Modernization Services

Keyhole Experts Have Been Trusted by 250+ Manufacturing, Industrial & Supply Chain & Enterprise Organizations

Custom Software Solutions for Manufacturing, Industrial & Supply Chain

Production & Operations Systems

Inventory, Warehouse & Fulfillment

Supply Chain & Distribution Platforms

Field Service, Inspection & Asset Management

Why Choose Keyhole for Manufacturing, Industrial & Supply Chain Software?

The Keyhole Difference

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Why Clients Trust Keyhole

Recent Manufacturing, Industrial & Supply Chain Success Stories

Manufacturing Process Automation & Workflow Modernization

Kansas City Southern Railway: COBOL Modernization with Microservices

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Technologies & Platforms We Excel In

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Data, Integrations & Automation

Cloud & Infrastructure

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