Cross Industry

How Manufacturers Solve Accounts Payable Challenges with CPX

Without the proper tools, manufacturers risk delayed production schedules, reduced profitability and strained supplier relationships from late payments. The Priority CPX suite provides a tailored payables solution that streamlines B2B payments for manufacturers, improves cash flow and simplifies accounts payable management.

Financial Management

B2B Payment Automation: A Complete Guide

As organizations expand, B2B payment automation addresses inefficiencies in payment systems by unifying and streamlining processes across various payment types, leading to increased accuracy, efficiency, financial control, and better vendor relationships.

Financial Management

How to Manage Multiple Payment Methods Without the Chaos

In an interview, Priority's Chief Strategy Officer emphasized the importance of evolving payment strategies from merely moving money to enabling it to work strategically for businesses, advocating for payment orchestration to simplify complex systems and create competitive advantages.

Financial Management

Resource Center How to Bust Three Common Myths About Integrated Payables

Many organizations hesitate to adopt secure electronic payments due to myths and misconceptions about accounts payable processes, missing out on the benefits of integrated payables that could streamline operations and enhance financial outcomes.

Financial Management

How Integrated Payables Improve Commercial Payments

Integrated payables streamline business-to-business payment processes by consolidating various payment methods into a single automated platform, thereby reducing errors, lowering costs, enhancing cash flow management, and improving supplier relationships.

Analytics and AI

BCG and Conduct Target Custom Code Complexity in ERP Transformations

BCG and Conduct have partnered to enhance ERP transformations by leveraging Conduct’s AI platform for early custom code analysis, aiming to streamline decision-making, reduce risks, and optimize costs in migration efforts.

Analytics and AI

ERP Today Expert Exchange – AI Transformation – Season 1

This three-part Expert Exchanges series, hosted by Constance Sayers from ERP Today, explores how organizations are navigating AI-led transformation in partnership with Oracle Cloud and IBM Consulting. Across the episodes, a consistent set of themes emerges: AI is elevating traditionally...

Security

Microsoft Is Killing SMS Sign-in Codes. ERP Teams Should Pay Attention

Microsoft’s move away from SMS sign-in codes is limited to personal accounts, but ERP teams should still pay attention. Developer subscriptions, sandbox tenants, contractor accounts, shared credentials, and break-glass workflows can sit outside formal Entra ID governance, creating hidden exposure as authentication models shift.

Analytics and AI

SAP Sapphire Madrid Customer Keynote: Enterprise AI Value Depends on Business Ownership

The SAP Sapphire Madrid keynote highlighted the shift in AI discussions from announcements to operational integration, emphasizing that AI's value relies on governance, user trust, and practical implementation within business processes, as showcased by various case studies from companies like Ericsson, Fonterra, and EssilorLuxottica.

Analytics and AI

ServiceNow Repositioned Around AI Security and Governance at Knowledge 2026

ServiceNow positions itself as a governance and action layer for enterprise AI, launching Autonomous Security and Risk, enhancing the AI Control Tower for comprehensive governance, and making its Action Fabric available to external agents, amidst a backdrop of growing financial momentum and challenges in broad adoption.

SAP agentic AI manufacturing Hannover Messe 2026

Governance, Risk, and Compliance

Q&A: Tirumala Rao Chimpiri on Why ERP Modernization Fails After Go-Live

Organizations often struggle with ERP modernization post-go-live due to inadequate focus on operational discipline, governance, and continuous improvement, where successful implementation doesn’t guarantee that workflows and processes have meaningfully changed or improved.

Analytics and AI

Dataiku Launches Cobuild on Snowflake for Governed AI Workflows

Dataiku has launched Cobuild on Snowflake, a new offering designed to turn natural-language requests into governed AI workflows, agents and applications running inside Snowflake.

Financial Management

Watch and Learn More About Priority Commerce Payables

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Financial Management

CPX: A Commercial Payment System

PAYABLES Turn your cost center into a profit center with B2B AP Automation Automate 100% of your accounts payables (AP) to reduce cost and generate cash back when paying your suppliers through our electronic payment system. Our end-to-end B2B payments...

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Financial Management

Add Payments to Your Platform, Without Building It

Add Payments to Your Platform. Without Building It. Priority Payables enables ERP and accounting software platforms to embed payables directly into existing workflows, consolidating outgoing payments into a single process for fulfillment and reconciliation. Your customers get a more connected payment experience....

Financial Management

How One Manufacturer Automated Its Accounts Payable and Reaped the Rewards

Pierce Pacific modernized its accounts payable process by implementing Priority’s CPX electronic payment system, significantly reducing payment times and improving supplier satisfaction while transforming AP into a more efficient, value-generating function.

Financial Management

Your ERP Has a Strategy Problem, Not a Payments Problem.

Most ERP and accounting software platforms didn’t set out to be payments companies, and they shouldn’t have to become one. But as their customers demand more from the platforms they run their businesses on, payments have quietly moved from a...

Analytics and AI

SAP Sapphire Madrid: Autonomous Enterprise Pitch Meets Europe’s AI Control Test

At SAP Sapphire Madrid, the company introduced the Autonomous Enterprise as the next evolution in ERP, focusing on AI-driven solutions tailored for European markets, emphasizing sovereignty and regulatory compliance in data handling and operational control.

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Analytics and AI

Beacon.li Launches AI Platform for Enterprise Software Implementation

Beacon.li launched Implementation Studio, a UI-based AI platform that aims to execute enterprise software implementation work inside target applications, with early traction likely in repeatable configuration, testing and hypercare workflows.

Automation

SAP and Anthropic Integrate Claude with SAP Joule Using Model Context Protocol

SAP and Anthropic announced the integration of Claude into the SAP Business AI Platform and Joule, enabling AI agents to execute tasks across SAP S/4HANA, SuccessFactors, Ariba, and third-party systems using Model Context Protocol (MCP).

Analytics and AI

SAP Pushes Joule Toward Enterprise Execution, but Readiness Remains the Constraint

SAP is turning Joule into an enterprise execution surface, not just an AI assistant, but the layer through which ERP users interact with SAP data, agents, generated workspaces, voice, desktop tools, and cross-system workflows.

Manufacturing Systems and Automation

Organizations Must Confront the AI-ERP Reality Gap

The enterprise landscape is facing disruption as AI agents automate tasks and support decisions, but many organizations struggle to implement AI effectively due to outdated and fragmented ERP systems, necessitating a transformation that integrates AI and ERP capabilities.

Analytics and AI

Boomi World 2026 Pushes Enterprise Platform Toward Agentic AI Governance

At Boomi World 2026, Boomi unveiled a comprehensive strategy to transition AI agents from pilot programs to enterprise workflows through enhanced orchestration, connectivity, context, and governance, supported by partnerships with Red Hat and Couchbase, ultimately positioning itself as an active data foundation for the emerging 'agentic enterprise'.

Security

Sage-IDC Research Reveals SMB Cybersecurity Gaps in the AI Era

A Sage-IDC study reveals that while small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are significantly increasing their cybersecurity investments, a disconnect exists between spending intentions and actual implementation, exposing many to cyber threats due to a lack of governance and preparedness, particularly in the face of accelerating AI adoption.

Governance, Risk, and Compliance

The Impact of the Sovereignty Gap in Enterprise Architecture

Recent power outages and data center disruptions have challenged the assumption that cloud infrastructure is resilient, highlighting the necessity for enterprises to develop data sovereignty.

Human Capital Management

SAP Pushes Autonomous HCM Beyond HR Automation in SuccessFactors

SAP's Sapphire 2026 announcement highlights its Autonomous HCM capabilities in SuccessFactors, transforming HR from a static record system into an active operational layer that includes payroll, hiring, workforce planning, and learning integration through new Joule Assistants.

Cloud Platform and Technology

Epicor Insights 2026 Makes Cloud Migration a Trust Test, and It Is Not Alone

At Epicor Insights 2026, the company faces its most consequential conference yet: with on-premises Kinetic development ending at the 2028.1 release, the pressure is on to demonstrate that cloud ERP migration is not just necessary for manufacturers and distributors — but genuinely worth it. This analysis examines how Epicor is addressing the trust gap through security governance, data architecture strategy, and change management, and what still needs to be proven on the conference floor.

Analytics and AI

SAP Sapphire Customer Keynote Shows AI Value Depends on Readiness, Data, and Standardization

At SAP Sapphire 2026, the customer keynote made a definitive case: AI value in the enterprise depends on readiness, data standardization, and clean core ERP foundations—not experimentation. Through transformation stories from Lockheed Martin, ExxonMobil, Levi Strauss, and Aeropuertos Argentina, SAP reinforced that organizations succeeding with AI have built the operational and data infrastructure to support it on SAP S/4HANA and BTP.

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Governance, Risk, and Compliance

What the EU AI Act Delay Means for ERP Governance

The EU AI Act delay eases some near-term compliance pressure, but ERP teams still need to build governance evidence around how AI is used across business processes.

Analytics and AI

How SAP Is Using Anthropic, NVIDIA and Palantir to Shape Its Autonomous Enterprise Stack

At Sapphire 2026, SAP expanded its partner ecosystem by collaborating with Anthropic, NVIDIA, and Palantir to enhance its Autonomous Enterprise strategy, integrating AI capabilities for workflow optimization, secured agent execution, and streamlined data migration to SAP Cloud ERP.