Supply Chain Management

Companies Are Racing to Cut Tariff Costs, but Their Trade Software May Be Creating New Risk

As tariff volatility reshapes supply chains and financial planning, many organizations are discovering a new challenge: the software supporting Foreign-Trade Zone operations may be creating compliance, audit, and financial risks. New research highlights why FTZ modernization is becoming an ERP and business architecture priority.

Is AI’s Next Target the Supply Chain Control Layer? Auger Raises $50M to Test the Stack

Auger, a supply chain software startup founded by ex-Amazon executive Dave Clark, has raised $50 million in Series B funding to enhance its AI platform that unifies existing enterprise systems and aims to automate decision-making within supply chains.

Automation

Epicor’s Conexiom Expansion Pushes AI Automation Deeper into Distributor Workflows

Conexiom has expanded its partnership with Epicor to enhance AI-driven order and invoice automation for distributors using Epicor Eclipse and Prophet 21, aiming to streamline order-to-cash cycles, reduce manual data entry, and improve operational efficiency.

Supply Chain Management

Acumatica’s Vertrax Deal: Why Vertical ERP IP Is Getting Harder to Leave to Partners

Acumatica acquired Vertrax, expanding its industry-specific capabilities for the fuel and energy distribution sector, ensuring continuity in products and services while enhancing its cloud ERP offerings.

Supply Chain Management

Infor Aligns Its Agentic ERP Strategy with ‘Enterprise Resource Execution’ Framework

Infor is aligning its agentic enterprise strategy with enterprise resource execution, or ERX, a Gartner-introduced framework for ERP’s next phase that emphasizes real-time sensing, decision-making, and execution through governed AI agents and industry-specific context.

Supply Chain Management

DeepFabric Takes Aim at the Manual Work Still Slowing Supply Chains

DeepFabric has launched its AI agent platform aimed at automating manual coordination tasks in supply chain operations, offering over 50 specialized agents that improve efficiency and reduce costs for enterprise clients, while emphasizing the importance of human oversight in the process.

Automation

Agility’s $2.5B Wall Street Pitch Tests Whether Warehouse Humanoids Are Ready for Real Work

Agility Robotics is going public through a $2.5B SPAC merger with Churchill Capital Corp XI—a move that would make it the first US-listed pure-play humanoid robotics company. With 65,000 hours of real-world warehouse operations and $300 million in Digit v5 orders, Agility is testing whether physical AI can survive Wall Street's scrutiny of ROI, uptime, and supply chain integration.

ERP Strategy and Planning

Why Agribusiness ERP Has to Treat Contracts as Risk Signals

Agribusiness contracts carry commodity, FX, and interest-rate exposure long before settlement. This article explains how SAP Agricultural Contract Management turns contracts into a live risk engine inside ERP, with msg global's implementation approach.

ERP Strategy and Planning

What Does It Take to Win the Next Energy ERP Cycle? SAP, Oracle, IFS, Infor Offer Different Answers

Excerpt: SAP, Oracle, IFS, and Infor are offering different answers to the next energy ERP cycle as oil, gas, utilities, renewables, and energy services companies modernize around assets, field execution, AI, and changing operating models.

Applied Materials finance transformation using SAP Taulia Dynamic Discounting for supplier payments

Business Process Management and Automation

Applied Materials Is Finding Finance Transformation in Faster Supplier Payments

Applied Materials is using SAP Taulia Dynamic Discounting as part of its Agile Finance program to accelerate supplier payments, improve supplier liquidity, and build a scalable, AI-first finance operating model. The initiative shows how enterprise working capital programs can evolve from transactional efficiency tools into strategic platforms that deliver both supplier value and measurable financial returns for large manufacturers.

Analytics and AI

Nokia’s ERP Overhaul Shows Why AI Ambitions Are Moving to the Hyperscaler Layer

Nokia has signed a multi-year RISE with SAP agreement to consolidate multiple ERP systems into a unified SAP S/4HANA landscape hosted on Microsoft Azure, using clean-core principles and SAP's transformation methodology to prepare its global business backbone for embedded AI, operational resilience, and continuous cloud innovation.

Supply Chain Management

IFS Is Building the Operations Layer Around Industrial AI

IFS’s Softeon acquisition is only one part of a broader push to connect warehouse execution, logistics optimization, MRO, asset management, and ERP around Industrial AI.

Manufacturing Systems and Automation

Why Food ERP Still Needs More Than Generic Dynamics 365

Aptean’s food and beverage ERP footprint on Microsoft Dynamics 365 shows why food, beverage, fresh, and agribusiness companies still need vertical ERP logic for traceability, quality, production, pricing, and compliance.

ERP Strategy and Planning

IHH Healthcare System Standardization Shows the Hard Part of a Multi-Country ERP Transformation

IHH Healthcare has selected Infosys for a multi-year, enterprise-wide ERP transformation using the Infosys Topaz AI-first platform to standardize business processes across Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Singapore, covering finance, procurement, supply chain, HCM, and enterprise performance management.

Manufacturing Systems and Automation

Sage X3 Hopes to Help Manufacturers See Trouble Before It Hits

Sage announced enhancements to Sage X3, aimed at helping manufacturers and distributors improve operational visibility, reduce manual tasks, and expedite decision-making through embedded AI and operational intelligence.

ERP Strategy and Planning

Airbus Shows Why Aerospace ERP Innovation Starts with Data Integration

Aerospace ERP innovation hinges not only on advanced aircraft concepts but significantly on the integration and efficiency of enterprise systems like SAP, as demonstrated by Airbus, highlighting the crucial role of real-time data across engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain operations.

Manufacturing Systems and Automation

Aluminium Industries Scales 250% with Syspro ERP

Aluminium Industries successfully utilized Syspro ERP to achieve 250% business growth without increasing administrative staff, effectively managing rising order volumes and production complexities across multiple divisions.

ERP Strategy and Planning

South Korea’s Harim Group Standardizes 18 Affiliates on Samsung SDS One ERP

Harim Group, South Korea's largest agribusiness, improved operational visibility and efficiency by consolidating 18 affiliates onto a single cloud-based SAP S/4HANA ERP platform, reducing financial closing from over 12 days to 5 and paving the way for real-time data management and AI integration.

Analytics and AI

inecta Adds AI Agents to Food ERP for Workflow Automation

Inecta launched AI Agents on June 3, a configurable automation platform for food and beverage companies using inecta Food ERP, enabling rapid deployment of production-ready agents to automate workflows like invoice intake and order processing directly within the ERP system, thus enhancing operational efficiency and compliance.

ERP Strategy and Planning

Jefferson Parish Sets July 1 Go-Live for Infor Public Sector ERP

Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, is set to implement its Infor Public Sector ERP system, BRIDGE, on July 1, marking a transition from its legacy financial management system to improve operational efficiency, with a significant blackout period and new supplier portal mandates affecting finance and procurement activities.

Future ERP systems will likely undergo a significant transformation, from static and reactive to dynamic, event-driven platforms powered by agentic AI, enabling them to execute workflows and interact autonomously across business processes. Image from Adobe.

ERP Strategy and Planning

Priority Software Bets Midmarket ERP Users Are Ready for AI That Executes

Priority Software enhances its cloud ERP with the release of V26.0, integrating embedded AI features, including an aiERP Companion and specialized agents for finance, sales, and supply chain workflows, aimed at minimizing manual tasks and improving decision-making efficiency.

Analytics and AI

IBM Positioned as Leader in Oracle Supply Chain Services as Enterprises Prioritize Resilience and AI

IBM is recognized as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Supply Chain Oracle Ecosystem Services (2025–2026) for its comprehensive capabilities and strategic approach, emphasizing the necessity of integrated, end-to-end supply chain transformation amid increasing investment and complexity in the industry.

Analytics and AI

SAP Sapphire Interviews: SAP Executives Say AI Is Pushing ERP Back to the Center of Business Strategy

At SAP Sapphire 2026, Maura Hameroff and David Vallejo emphasized that AI is transforming ERP systems into strategic business frameworks that enhance enterprise decision-making by integrating industry knowledge and addressing fragmented data, thereby enabling companies to efficiently navigate modern challenges in supply chain management and overall business operations.

Supply Chain Management

‘Midmarket manufacturers should avoid treating automation and ERP as separate initiatives:’ Chris Brumett

Over the past decade, ERP systems have evolved from merely tracking transactions to becoming integral to the operational backbone of global supply chains, necessitating dynamic orchestration, real-time data integration and a focus on adaptability to support manufacturers.

Cloud Platform and Technology

Rauma Marine Constructions Selects IFS Cloud to Modernize Shipbuilding Operations, Reduce Build Times

Finnish naval shipbuilder Rauma Marine Constructions (RMC) has selected IFS Cloud to modernize its shipbuilding ERP infrastructure, replacing fragmented systems with a unified platform spanning project management, procurement, production, logistics, and financial control. The IFS Cloud implementation targets real-time operational visibility and reduced vessel build times across RMC's complex, multiyear shipbuilding programs.

ERP Strategy and Planning

Tennant ERP Fallout Extends into Ongoing Securities Scrutiny as Investors Await Recovery Signals

Tennant Company's ERP-related disruption has moved beyond operational recovery into an active ERP securities investigation, as investors and legal teams scrutinize the company's pre-failure disclosures and question management's credibility going forward.

ERP Strategy and Planning

ERP Today 2025 Awards: Transformation at Any Scale Drives Outsized SMB Impact

EPSS won the SMB Transformation Project of the Year for its impactful digital transformation in Ethiopian public health logistics, while Venture was recognized as a runner-up for its partnership project modernizing Biffa's operations with a focus on sustainability.

Shipping containers stacked at a logistics facility, representing supply chain operations in a SAP S/4HANA transformation context.

ERP Strategy and Planning

Clorox Shows What SAP S/4HANA Transformations Require Before 2027

Clorox’s $580M SAP S/4HANA transformation highlights how design, benchmarking, and execution decisions shape outcomes beyond go-live.

A humanoid robot checking for misplaced or improperly stacked items_SAP EWM humanoid robotics

Manufacturing Systems and Automation

SAP EWM Meets Humanoid Robotics in New Accenture and Vodafone Warehouse Pilot

SAP, Accenture, and Vodafone Procure & Connect have launched a warehouse pilot that integrates humanoid robots with SAP Extended Warehouse Management, showcasing how SAP EWM could become a control layer for physical AI, governed automation, and real-time warehouse execution.

AI is reshaping enterprise partnerships across ERP, supply chain, governance, and ecosystem collaboration

Analytics and AI

AI Is Changing the Rules of Enterprise Partnerships: Q&A with Blue Yonder’s VP Kelley Lear

In this ERP Today Q&A, Blue Yonder’s Kelley Lear explains how AI is changing the rules of enterprise partnerships. The discussion covers agentic AI, hyperscaler and ERP alliances, supply chain disruption, data readiness, governance, and what separates outcome-focused partnerships from those that stall.

Supply Chain Management

Q&A: From System of Record to System of Proof in Pharma

Steve Madsen developed RxERP in response to the overwhelming challenges of managing compliance and data fragmentation in pharmaceutical distribution, aiming to unify systems for real-time, trusted traceability and regulatory compliance, which also could influence other safety-critical industries.