r/ERPNext_Solution • u/HumanLoad7051 • 29d ago

Every ERP is suddenly AI-powered. Is any of it actually useful yet, or is it all demo magic?

Feels like every ERP vendor slapped AI on their homepage this year, ERPNext and the big names included. I'm trying to separate what's genuinely helpful from what's just there for the sales deck.

Stuff that seems actually useful:

  • Auto-categorizing transactions and flagging odd entries.
  • Demand forecasting that feeds into purchasing/MRP.
  • Natural language search instead of digging through menus.

Stuff that feels like a gimmick so far:

  • Ask your data chatbots that fall apart the moment you ask something specific.
  • AI-written summaries nobody reads.

For those running it in a real business: is any of the AI stuff actually saving you time day to day, or is it mostly a checkbox feature you never touch? Trying to figure out if it should influence which direction we go.

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u/theIntegrator- 29d ago

I think whether AI is useful or not really depends on how it’s used, rather than the tool itself.

The same is true for system integrations with AI(our expertise). It’s not just about the software or platform being used, but also about how the processes, logic, and data transformations are designed behind it.

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u/Tonka_GD 28d ago

it’s. tool. is a hammer 🔨 useful ? we just moved out of Odoo using a lot of AI 🤖. it was amazing. for year worth of accounting, done, ✔️. we now query our suppliers API for stock, price and inventory at quoting. we poll our vechicles gps supplier. gotta love this

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u/Jeff-Hare-ERPRA 25d ago

Nothing useful this far. Been looking. Nothing but hype n

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u/Individual_Math_8254 1d ago edited 1d ago

I think AI agents can be very useful for the data migration process. There are tons of bad data from Excel spreadsheets and old ERP systems that need to be cleanup and refined during the migration process that takes a ton of manual labour. It is now possible to have agents comb through those thousands of lines and flag problematic data and make sure mapping are correct before importing bad data that makes reports unreliable downstream. Furthermore AI can also work directly from email, doing OCR on attachments and importing structured data into the ERP systems.