AI & ERP
For us, artificial intelligence isn’t just a trend—it’s a key driver of innovation and a crucial component of our strategy for the future. True to our motto: Abas ERP fits today. Fits tomorrow. Fits perfectly.
Rethinking ERP: Artificial Intelligence as a strategic driver of innovation
As an ERP provider, Abas pursues a clear technological vision: To combine proven business logic with future-oriented technologies in order to sustainably strengthen midmarket businesses in their digital transformation. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not just a trendy topic, but the central innovation driver of our ERP strategy.
Our platform is developing along key future fields such as AI, machine learning (ML), the Internet of Things (IoT), sustainability and modern development processes. We're not focusing on individual solutions, but pursuing a system-wide approach instead: Intelligent functions are to be integrated generically - across all modules and along the entire value chain.
Our aim is to offer SMEs specific, practical added value - from more precise forecasts and adaptive processes to smart decision-making support. We go beyond pure process automation: We make ERP smarter, more flexible, and ready for the future - on the basis of a structured, trustworthy database.
Together with Prodaso, the Forterro competence center for industrial AI and IoT, we bring intelligent forecasting models, automated analyses, and networked production data directly into everyday ERP - without any additional complexity for our customers.
Our AI strategy is based on a clear, three-stage approach:
Operational efficiency
Increasing productivity in internal processes:
- Function-oriented
- AI for support in programming
- AI-supported support
Tactical AI
Customer-specific, quick-to-use AI services:
- AI-supported functions and services
- Best practices available in the Abas Solution Accelerator Library
- Future provision via MyForterro API
- AI hackathons with customers
- In close cooperation with PR&D
Strategic AI
Long-term product development and architectural decisions:
- Product development
- Connectivity
- Data quality
- Operating models
Operational efficiency
More efficient development: AI in our internal processes
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is playing an increasingly important role in the development of modern ERP software: By using AI technologies, processes can not only be automated, but also made more intelligent. That's why we also work with AI-based assistants in our internal business and development processes and will continue to expand their use in order to further develop our solutions for you in an even more targeted manner while driving forward more quickly.
Our focus is on using AI in a targeted manner to improve internal processes and reduce the workload on our teams. We focus on function-oriented use cases with high leverage for speed and quality.
For us, operational efficiency is the basis of every successful AI strategy - it creates quick successes that are immediately noticeable and establishes fertile ground for deeper AI integration.
AI in product development
With GitHub Copilot, we rely on AI-supported programming support that provides our developers with code suggestions in real time, automates repetitive tasks and thus shortens development cycles. This not only increases productivity, but also reduces the potential for errors and creates space for creative solutions.
AI-supported support
In customer service, we use machine learning models to analyze queries more quickly, suggest suitable solutions, and escalate complex cases in a more targeted manner. The result: Shorter response times and greater customer satisfaction.
Tactical AI
Customized AI-supported solutions: Simply utilize AI potentials
Abas – Designed to integrate AI
Abas ERP has always been known for its flexibility and adaptability. The simple customizing options are the basis for customer-specific, AI-supported solutions that can be implemented quickly and expanded flexibly. This enables you to achieve measurable success in a very short time - for example, when it comes to making more reliable decisions, using resources more efficiently, and saving time and costs.
Immediately usable best practices are available as Packaged Solutions - they offer efficient access to a constantly growing collection of tried-and-tested applications (templates). These beneficial customer-specific solutions impress with their easy integration and Abas-typical flexibility.
A key future element will be provision via the MyForterro API, which gives our customers easy access to AI functions.
Production Intelligence: Maximum production efficiency with AI & IoT
With the seamlessly integrated Production-Intelligence-System Prodaso, Abas ERP is expanded to include all relevant real-time data from production to optimize productivity and profitability with AI-supported analyses and predictions. This enables midmarket manufacturers to achieve maximum production efficiency, open up previously undiscovered optimization potential, and increase their competitiveness.
From machine connections to precise recording and management of operational and machine data through to dynamic visualization and in-depth analysis - Prodaso enables complete transparency of your production processes in real time. Thanks to smart IoT modules, Prodaso works independently of machine manufacturers and is easy to scale and retrofit.
With the AI hackathon to the individual business case: AI. Simply. Do it.
With AI hackathons, we actively involve you as a customer in the development of solutions. Together we develop prototypes, test scenarios, and evaluate benefits in real business processes.
In a very short time, Abas customers develop concrete approaches for practical AI applications in their own company at our AI hackathons. With targeted support and on the basis of Abas ERP and ChatGPT, individual business cases are created - right up to the independently implemented, functioning prototype. The rapid implementation and direct live use impressively demonstrate the enormous potential of integrating AI for digitalization, automation, and operational efficiency. Our Professional Services work closely with PR&D to bring innovations to market quickly.
AI use cases: How AI brings real added value to your company
Use Case: AI in sales
Quotation texts as if you wrote them yourself
Imagine,
you simply select the appropriate features of a product - and your ERP automatically generates a convincing quotation text that is not only technically correct, but also formulated to maximize sales success. In seconds instead of hours.
Use Case: AI in financial accounting
Correct entries the first time
Imagine,
you only enter a short description of a business transaction - and the ERP automatically recognizes the appropriate G/L account. No lengthy searches, no incorrect allocations, just immediate, correct entry suggestions.
Use Case: AI in customs/export
Customs tariff numbers in seconds
Imagine,
you record a new product - and the ERP automatically determines the correct customs commodity tariff number based on the product description. This saves you time, avoids errors, and ensures you are always legally compliant.
Use Case: AI in quality management
8D report at the touch of a button
Imagine,
you just type in a short error description - and the ERP creates a complete, standard-compliant 8D report from it. All steps, root cause analyses, and measures are fully structured before the first coffee gets cold.
Use Case: AI in production
Recognize relevant changes in the production process immediately
Imagine,
your ERP automatically recognizes when details in work instructions change in ways that affect the production process - and informs the responsible employees immediately. This will help you avoid costly mistakes before they occur.
Use Case: AI in purchasing/materials management
C-parts? Done.
Imagine,
your ERP automatically recognizes which parts are C-parts and creates them directly in the system, thus simplifying your procurement processes. Fewer clicks, more clarity - and more time for strategic tasks.
Use Case: AI in sales/costing
Complex offers calculated at lightning speed
Imagine,
you are calculating a complex quotation - and the ERP uses historical project data to deliver a precise price suggestion in seconds. Even complex calculations are created in record time.
Use Case: AI in marketing
Turning discontinued products into sales drivers
Imagine,
the ERP system identifies which products are discontinued models - and automatically delivers the basis for a marketing campaign to quickly reduce stock levels. Looming shelf warmers become sales.
Use Case: AI in purchasing
Vendor quality at a glance
Imagine,
you open a vendor evaluation - and automatically receive a well-founded analysis based on historical data: On-time delivery, quality, price development. Everything at a glance, for better negotiating positions.
Strategic AI
Future-proof ERP architecture
The strategic level of our AI strategy is aimed at anchoring AI as an integral part of our ERP platform. This is not about selective functions, but about system-wide integrated intelligence that creates added value along the entire value chain.
Core strategic AI topics:
- Connectivity:
Networking data and processes across system boundaries - Data quality:
Ensure that AI models are based on clean, complete and up-to-date data - Operating models:
Flexible, secure and scalable infrastructures (cloud, on-premises, hybrid) for AI operations
From the AI competence center directly into ERP: How Abas and Prodaso are shaping the future together
AI Features for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses, Integrated Directly into Abas ERP
In strategic cooperation with Prodaso - the Forterro competence center for industrial AI and data intelligence - we are expanding Abas ERP with future-oriented AI functionalities. The focus is on high-performance machine learning components that are precisely tailored to the requirements of midmarket and production-related companies.
The first productive solutions have already been successfully integrated into the ERP system - and show how intelligent data analyses, forecasts, and automated decision-making support can sustainably improve operational processes.
The aim of our joint development strategy is to make AI-supported added value available in a systematic and scalable manner - as an integral part of intelligent, data-driven corporate management.
Examples of jointly developed AI functionalities:
- Pattern and anomaly detection in production data for early detection of errors or risks
- Uncovering complex cause-and-effect relationships through in-depth multi-parameter and correlation analyses
- Smart and ready-to-use forecasting models
- Comprehensive predictions relating to quality development and probability of failure of production equipment
- AI-supported master files optimization
Prodaso enables Abas users to realize actual business benefits from machine learning - without creating additional complexity.
Ready for the ERP of the future: Highly efficient AI-supported solutions for SMEs
In addition to specific and highly efficient customer solutions, we are pursuing the goal of embedding Abas as an ERP system in a modern AI-supported infrastructure. We rely on modern standards to network our software solutions in a completely transparent way for the user and thus provide highly efficient AI-supported solutions.
We are already working on the ERP of the future today, as well as on solutions for:
- Predictive analytics for the early identification of opportunities and risks in procurement, sales and production
- Automated recommendations for action for purchasing, scheduling, personnel planning, or budgeting
- Context-related assistance functions in the user interface for greater efficiency and user-friendliness
- Self-learning workflows that respond to recurring patterns and adaptively control business processes
With MyForterro, we are creating a platform that enables access to a wide range of AI models and approaches, based on modern standards such as MCP. The aim is a fully networked, transparent and scalable AI infrastructure.
Data quality as a success factor
Whether operational, tactical or strategic - every form of AI stands and falls with data quality. This is why we view topics such as data availability, maintenance processes, and consistency assurance not as peripheral issues, but as central components of our product strategy.
With Abas ERP, we have a solid, standardized database that makes it possible to provide AI functions in a transparent, auditable and GDPR-compliant manner - an indispensable criterion, especially in regulated industries.
AI strategy for the ERP of the future
Our three-stage AI strategy ensures that we achieve measurable efficiency gains in the short term, offer customer-oriented value-added functions in the medium term, and create a future-ready ERP platform in the long term. By closely interlinking operational, tactical and strategic AI, we not only implement individual features, but also actively shape the ERP architecture of the future - intelligent, networked and scalable.