Automation examples · Manufacturing & wholesale

What could you automate in a manufacturing or wholesale business?
Five builds we keep seeing pay for themselves.

These are the five automation patterns we most often build for Australian manufacturing & wholesale businesses, with our published pricing against each. For the three most relevant to your business specifically, the free quiz takes about three minutes.

How to read these

Every example on this page is a pattern we have built or scoped for Australian businesses. The prices are our published fixed bands, not estimates invented for this page, and you will not find made-up hours-saved figures here. Where a build pays for itself, we say how in plain terms and let you do the maths on your own numbers.

Example 1 of 5

Orders that enter themselves

Purchase orders arriving as emails and PDFs read, validated against your catalogue and pricing, and queued in your system for a person to approve. The sales team stops being a data-entry team.

BUILD FROM $4,000 + GST, SUPPORT FROM $200/MONTH

Manual order entry is high-volume, error-prone and completely mechanical: the classic first automation.

Example 2 of 5

Order status that answers before they ask

Despatch and delay updates sent automatically from your system's own milestones, and "where is my order?" emails answered from live data. Customer service stops relaying and starts serving.

BUILD FROM $4,000 + GST, SUPPORT FROM $200/MONTH

Status enquiries are usually the single biggest category in a wholesale inbox.

Example 3 of 5

Invoices matched and exceptions flagged

Supplier invoices read and matched against orders and receipts, clean ones queued for payment, mismatches flagged for a human. Accounts payable becomes an exceptions job.

BUILD FROM $4,000 + GST, SUPPORT FROM $200/MONTH

Three-way matching is exactly the kind of rule-following work systems do better than tired humans.

Example 4 of 5

The weekly numbers that assemble themselves

Sales, production and stock figures pulled from the systems that already hold them, assembled into the report you already use, reviewed by a person before it circulates.

BUILD FROM $4,000 + GST, SUPPORT FROM $200/MONTH

If the report is built the same way every week from the same sources, it is a build candidate.

Example 5 of 5

Stock watched, reorders drafted

Reorder points monitored, supplier POs drafted with current pricing, and a buyer approving with one click instead of building spreadsheets.

BUILD FROM $4,000 + GST, SUPPORT FROM $200/MONTH

Stockouts and panic orders both trace back to nobody having time to watch the numbers.

Where the time actually goes

The usual suspects in manufacturing & wholesale

When we ask manufacturing & wholesale businesses where their week disappears, the same answers keep coming back. If more than two of these sound familiar, there is probably a build on this page that pays for itself.

The next step

These are the generic versions.
Three minutes gets you the specific ones.

The quiz asks seven questions about where your time actually goes, shows your three most relevant examples on the spot, then an Evisent engineer reviews your answers and sends a full roadmap. Free, and "nothing worth automating yet" is a real outcome. Prefer the governance and delivery view? See AI for manufacturing & wholesale.

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