How agentic digital workers will partner with ERP to face down the industrial convergence crisis

While your CFO reviews quarterly reports and your operations manager handles the day shift, a Material Replenisher digital worker can autonomously process 847 parts requests, cross-referencing supplier availability, and coordinating with maintenance schedules, all before your first coffee break. This isn't science fiction. It's agentic AI, and it will transform how industrial companies operate.

ERP systems gave industrial companies the backbone of operational data. RPA automated simple tasks. Basic AI provided insights. But none could handle the dynamic complexity of real industrial operations until agentic digital workers arrived to orchestrate intelligent actions across all of them.

For decades, industrial leaders have seen promising technologies advance step by step as they adapted to operational realities. Each wave of innovation worked brilliantly in controlled environments, then struggled with the messy, interconnected, constantly evolving nature of real industrial operations.

Today, digital workers – autonomous agents that think, learn, and act – represent something ...