How many ways can you say ERP? Quite a few if you live in SAP land and the complexity of decision making is not getting any easier. SAP is credited with inventing ERP in the late 70’s and early 80’s.

SHARQ, the Eastern Petrochemical Company affiliate of Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC), has implemented Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Systems Applications Products (SAP) software.

Attendees of SAP’s Sapphire conference in Florida in mid-May heard a lot about the vendor’s umbrella Business Suite and its Joule AI agents, but the German software giant made little mention of ...