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From System of Record to Management Platform: How ERP Is Changing
- Anton GalaktionovAnton Galaktionov spent two decades on the implementation side of Oracle ERP - as a developer, consultant, and eventually architect - before moving to the client side, where he discovered it shifts the perspective entirely. Today he oversees the development of technology solutions at a large European logistics company. In this column, he writes from both sides of the market: why ERP has ended up at the center of transformation - and why the real bottleneck isn't technology, but people. Where the shift comes from Twenty years ago, companies implemented ERP for one reason: to bring order to their data. Finance, procurement, warehouses, production - everything in one place, all connected. For its time, that was a breakthrough. But the system itself stayed passive. It recorded facts; people made decisions, often based on reports that took days to compile. That is no longer acceptable. A COO can't wait two weeks for a consolidated report. A CFO wants a cross-jurisdictional view today, not at month-end. Supply chains have become too complex - and too fragile - to manage after the fact. Expectations around ERP didn't change overnight, but they shifted under pressure...
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