Supply Chain Management

ERP Strategy and Planning
Acumatica 2026 R2 Adds Ship-Date, Carrier, Picking Tools for Distributors
Acumatica's 2026 R2 release adds available-to-promise dates, redesigned carrier rate shopping, and warehouse picking strategies to Acumatica Distribution Edition. The updates follow an order from the quoted delivery date through carrier selection to the warehouse pick.
ERP Strategy and Planning
Lumber Dealers Report Margin, Inventory, and Growth Gains on Epicor BisTrack
Arnold Lumber Company, Sears Trostel Lumber and Millwork, and Dodson Wholesale Lumber report gains in dispatch, inventory, margin, and growth from Epicor BisTrack, ERP software Epicor built for building suppliers. Their results span live dispatch data, margin dashboards, and hosted ERP with warehouse scanning.
Financial Management
Epicor Propello 2026.3 Extends Financials and EDI Links
Epicor's third Propello release of 2026 deepens the retail system's ties to Epicor Financials and EDI, adds an open AR import for migrations, and introduces configurable cash rounding as US states and Congress set rules for a post-penny economy.
Supply Chain Management
What Does a Product Recall Cost a Manufacturer, and What Stops the Next One?
A recent survey revealed that 75% of manufacturers have faced product recalls in the last five years, with almost half attributing these to supply chain issues, underscoring the critical need for effective quality controls at the receiving stage to prevent costly recalls.
SAP Connect Stage
Analytics and AI
SAP Says Supply Chain AI Should Start With the Decision
At SAP Connect 2026, SAP's new supply chain product chief urged teams to define the business decision and its metric before choosing an AI use case. Bosch, Döhler, and Microsoft described how they apply that approach to supply chain agents.
Supply Chain Management
How RFK Racing Tracks 5,000 Parts at Race Pace with Syspro’s Unified Cloud Platform
RFK Racing replaced a mix of legacy modules and spreadsheets with Syspro, giving its purchasing and accounting teams shared data across about 5,000 active parts and a 38-race season.
Supply Chain Management
WMS: Warehouse execution from dock to shop floor
Bin-level tracking and directed picking keep every pallet and job in view, from receiving to the shop floor, so teams handle more volume without adding headcount. Posts to Syspro ERP in real time. Click here to learn more!
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Spend Management and Procurement
SAP Connect 2026: How New Agents Will Detect and Respond to Supply Disruptions
Moody's supplier risk data in SAP Ariba and new supply chain agents, both due in Q4 2026, help SAP spot disruptions. Agents act on their own in some processes and defer to people in others.
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Analytics and AI
Sage Makes the Case for Three Kinds of AI in the Supply Chain, and One Data Foundation Beneath Them
Two September 2026 Sage Advice articles frame supply chain AI as predictive, generative, and agentic layers that only deliver value on connected ERP data with human oversight. ERP Today's 2026 coverage of Sage Copilot in X3, IDC trust research, and customer readiness shows why explainability is now a supply chain requirement.
ERP Strategy and Planning
Food Traceability Moves Beyond Compliance Into ERP Operations
Food manufacturers evaluating traceability systems face an architecture decision that extends beyond recall management. ERP integration allows lot, batch, supplier, expiry, production, and cost data to shape routine operational decisions.
Analytics and AI
Rootstock Pilots Manufacturing AI Agents, Adds Native ERP Security and Finance Updates
Rootstock is piloting AI agents for manufacturing sales and purchasing while expanding its ERP platform with native security, bank reconciliation, and international financial capabilities.
ERP Strategy and Planning
Therabody Cuts Technology Costs 45% With Oracle NetSuite ERP
Therabody cut technology costs 45% after consolidating global operations on Oracle NetSuite, while using OneWorld, Advanced Order Management and AI Connector Service to support international growth and AI-connected workflows.
Mawared MENA: Portal for local sourcing across the MENA region for humanitairan, charity and health agencies.
Spend Management and Procurement
ERP Transformed Organizations. Can Procurement Technology Transform Markets?
ERP systems transformed procurement execution, but market visibility remains a challenge. Mawared MENA demonstrates how shared procurement infrastructure can help organizations discover suppliers, strengthen local sourcing, improve resilience, and create healthier supplier ecosystems before a purchase order is ever issued.
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Supply Chain Management
Microsoft Dynamics 365 ERP MCP Server Lets Agents Move from Supply Chain Insight to Action
Microsoft is positioning Dynamics 365 ERP MCP Server as the bridge between AI-generated recommendations and operational execution. The platform gives AI agents controlled access to real ERP workflows, allowing organizations to move from supply chain visibility toward governed action while maintaining human oversight.
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.
Supply Chain Management
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.
Acumatica Vertrax acquisition
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.
aerospace ERP
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.
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