Digital Transformation Isn’t About ERP Anymore, It’s About Automation With Machine Learning

Digital Transformation Isn’t About ERP Anymore, It’s About Automation With Machine Learning

As long as ERP-based automation is confined to the automation of processes embedded in ERP applications, the ERP world will lag behind next generation digital transformation.









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Pre-Covid-19 Digital Transformation 



Not so many years ago companies defined "digital transformation“ as "the use of new, fast and frequently changing digital technology to solve problems.  It is about transforming processes that (are) non digital or manual to digital processes.“ Companies rushed to standardize their business processes with enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, like the formidable, almost pervasive, applications from SAP and other ERP vendors.  The value proposition was - and remains - enterprise centralization, standardization and integration across internal and external business processes, cost savings and - in spite of their monolithic architectures - some flexibility (compared to the chaos that existed before).  Kim O'Shaughnessy says it better:



"Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are used by organizations looking to manage their business functions within a centralized and integrated system.  ERP is commonly used by companies working within the supply chain to help keep track of all the moving parts of manufacturing and distribution.  However,