The end of ERP as we know it? Five ways AI is disrupting ERP - McKinsey

Your ERP system isn't broken. But the big tech vendors really want you to think it is.

McKinsey just published a piece on AI "disrupting" ERP. Translation: enterprise software companies are rebranding their existing tools with an AI wrapper and calling it a revolution.

Here's what nobody tells you.

Most business owners don't need to replace their ERP. They need to plug specific AI capabilities into the gaps their current system already has. Inventory forecasting that's always two weeks behind. Purchase orders that still need three humans to approve. Reports nobody reads because they take too long to generate.

Those are solvable problems. Without ripping anything out.

The owners winning with AI right now aren't the ones who bought the biggest new platform. They're the ones who picked one slow, painful process and asked a simple question: can AI handle this specific step?

That's your starting point. Not a vendor demo. Not a consultant pitch deck.

Look at your last 30 days of operations. Find the one task your team complained about most. That's where your first AI win lives.

What's the one repetitive process in your business that drains the most time every single week?

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