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How to AI-enable a legacy ERP without re-platforming
Most ERPs aren't going anywhere. Here's a pragmatic four-step path to add an AI layer on top of the one you already run.
By Artificial Wit Team
Replacing a legacy ERP is a multi-year project most companies will never finish. The good news: you don't need to. You can wrap it.
The four-step path
- Expose: surface the 20–30 operations that matter as clean APIs.
- Describe: register them as MCP tools with schemas and natural-language descriptions.
- Ground: ingest SOPs, manuals and master data into a RAG knowledge base.
- Govern: add auth, rate limits and an audit log before opening it to assistants.
What this unlocks
Once an LLM can read your ERP through MCP and answer from your knowledge base, the practical wins arrive fast: faster customer service, self-serve reporting, and onboarding that no longer relies on a single tribal-knowledge expert.
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