Most traditional ERP systems reduce business reality into a web of ledgers. A person becomes a ledger, a product becomes a ledger and a customer becomes a ledger entry. These systems shape the business around accounting design instead of shaping accounting around how business actually happens.​

ERP vendors are not asleep on AI. Serious platforms have been weaving AI into planning, forecasting, control and user experience. AI will not replace a real ERP. It will replace small tools that masquerade as ERP, while making true ERPs faster, smarter and safer.