Your ERP Can Now Cut the Purchase Order and Post the Invoice

Your ERP Can Now Cut the Purchase Order and Post the Invoice

What happened

Priority Software released Version 26.0 of its ERP on May 20, built around an embedded assistant it calls the aiERP Companion and a set of agents that work inside finance, sales, and supply chain. The agents create journal entries, post receipts, help process invoices, and set up vendors. You ask, instruct, and approve in plain language, and every action leaves an audit trail. Priority runs about 75,000 customers across 70 countries. A second vendor, Nominal, said it plainly: chatbots explain, agents execute.

What it means for you

Think about how a purchase order or a vendor invoice moves through your office today. Someone reads it, types it into the ERP, matches it, and routes it for a signature. That is the work these agents take over. The part that makes it usable in our world is the approval step and the audit trail, because in chemical distribution you have to show who signed off and when. If you still have a CSR retyping orders into your system, that is where to start. Call your ERP provider this month and ask 2 questions: which of these agents run in your version today, and what do the approval and audit controls actually look like.

ChatGPT Dropped Below Half the Market for the First Time

What happened

Sensor Tower’s State of AI 2026 report shows ChatGPT fell below 50% of the global AI assistant market in March and sat at 46% by May, down from 53% last December. Google’s Gemini holds about 28% and Anthropic’s Claude about 10%. The business numbers tell a different story. Claude leads Ramp’s corporate adoption index and wins most of the head to head deals against ChatGPT among new enterprise customers.

What it means for you

The easy decision, put the whole office on ChatGPT, is over. There are 3 real tools now and they are good at different things. Pick by the job. The one your accounting team uses to clean up a spreadsheet does not have to be the one your sales team uses to prep a call. For a distributor the question that matters is whose data policy you trust with your customer list and your SDS files. Settle that first, then let the rest follow the work.

Anthropic’s Newest Model Vanished for 6 Days, Then Came Back Paid

What happened

Anthropic’s newest model, Claude Fable 5, went offline worldwide from June 12 to June 18 under a US export control order. It came back on June 23 as a paid feature after its free trial. People who were building on it one week were paying for it the next, with a stretch in the middle where it was simply gone.

What it means for you

This is the model release item, and it lands where these always do. The model matters less than whether your process can survive it changing. If a workflow you count on runs on one model from one vendor, a policy you do not control can move it out from under you overnight. Build so you can swap. Keep the data clean and the process written down, and the model becomes a part you can replace. We sell chemicals, but we manage data, and the data is the part you own.

If you have an ERP agent running any part of your order or invoice work, I would like to hear what you turned on first and how you set up the approval step. Reply and tell me. I read every one.

Pete