AI & agents
LLMs and agentic AI put to work on real operational problems — reading messy documents, answering questions from your data, and running the repetitive steps on their own.
Software & agentic AI · Manufacturing & FMCG
Systems that keep the line moving.
EZ Systems builds software — and increasingly agentic AI — for manufacturing and FMCG. We connect the tools you already run, put LLMs to work on the messy jobs, and automate the steps that slow your operation down.
Built for
Manufacturing
FMCG
Food & beverage
Operations
Finance & costing
What we do
Practical software, built by people who’ve stood on the floor.
Systems & integration
Connect the tools you already run so your data stops living in silos and spreadsheets.
Data & modelling
Turn scattered numbers into costing, labour and planning models you can actually trust.
Software & automation
Custom tools built around your process — and the manual, repetitive work automated away.
How we work
Small pieces, shipped fast, owned by you.
01
Understand
We start on the floor, not in a slide deck — learning how the work actually happens before we touch a system.
02
Build
We connect, model and automate in small slices you can use straight away — value early, not a big-bang go-live.
03
Hand over
You own what we build. Clear documentation, a team that can maintain it, and no dependence on us to keep running.
Selected work
What it looks like in practice.
Illustrative examples of the kind of software we build — representative UI, not a specific client’s system.
01
Labour & costing model
Labour cost
$148,200
on budget +3.2%
Coverage
96%
target 95%
Overtime
42 h
−11% vs w31
DemandCoverage
MonTueWedThuFriSatSun
02
Systems integration
Sources
SAP ERP
MES / SCADA
Payroll
→
Unify
EZ Systems
one model
→
Outputs
Labour Model
Power BI
Cost reports
03
AI agent & assistant
Why did Line 3 overtime spike in week 31?
Overtime hit 67 h (up from 47) — mostly Thu/Fri, where coverage fell ~8% below demand after two operators were on unplanned leave and the roster wasn’t backfilled.source: roster + timeclock, w31
Agent · working
✓Pulled timeclock & roster
✓Compared coverage vs demand
✓Found 2 shifts short-staffed
→Drafting note to manager…
•Awaiting your approval to send
04
Automation & dashboards
Daily labour cost report
emailed to ops + finance
Overtime threshold alert
Slack #ops when >10% over
Payroll export
to SAP, validated
Manual reconciliation
replaced by pipeline
40 hmanual work saved / month
Track record
Decades of real systems, delivered.
The experience behind EZ Systems spans some of the larger systems in FMCG, pharmaceuticals and finance — a sample:
- IBM MAPICS ERP for a multinational pharmaceutical company — sales, distribution, manufacturing, logistics, inventory control, purchasing and finance.
- Full business-systems architecture, RSPCA Victoria — finance, donor & bequest management, telephone sales, veterinary and animal services.
- Enterprise data warehouses for two large FMCG companies.
- IBM financial software support for clients including Crown Equipment, deployed across Australasia and Asia.
About
Built on 25 years in FMCG systems.
EZ Systems is led by John Grauer, an IT professional with more than 25 years’ experience across FMCG, financial services, manufacturing and distribution.
He specialises in IBM AS/400 systems, Microsoft solutions, data warehousing, financial systems and business architecture — spanning project leadership, IT management, consulting and end-to-end enterprise solution delivery.
Engagement & support
Ways to work together.
Bespoke build
We scope, build and hand over software that’s yours to keep — fixed-price or time & materials.
Hybrid
A bespoke build up front, then an ongoing licence for the platform it runs on. Our most common shape for industrial software.
Platform licence
Use EZ Systems’ packaged platforms and models on an annual licence or subscription — the product does the heavy lifting.
Support & maintenance
Keep it moving after go-live.
Standard retainer
- Updates, fixes and small changes
- Email support, next-business-day response
- [Placeholder: included hours / response time]
Priority retainer
- Everything in Standard
- Priority queue and faster response times
- Proactive monitoring & regular check-ins
Prefer no standing fee? Ad-hoc support is available too — pay only when you need us.
Get in touch
Email us
Tell us what’s slowing the line down.
We’ll tell you honestly whether we can help — and how we’d start. First reply within one business day.