AI in the ERP environment - or: When AI and ERP have a child together. The progress of AI in the form of neural networks has surprised all experts. Will this also have an impact on ERP systems? A legitimate question, but one that falls far short of the mark. ERP systems are designed to ensure that the right skilled workers, tools and materials as well as the necessary energy and money are in the right place at the right time to produce goods. ERP systems are therefore industrial processes cast in software. Essentially, they are the transformation of long parts lists into rigid relational databases with unbearable user interfaces. What good is that in the age of AI?

In 2020, it was a special honour for me to be listed among the top 10 speakers in Manager Magazin with such renowned colleagues as Ulrike Winzer, Rainer Petek, Markus Hofmann or Katrin Seifarth.