Oracle NetSuite user Brennan Industries says AI builds up to five ERP apps a day. ERP architects maintain that code.
Ryan King, CIO of the hydraulic parts maker, told diginomica he uses Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex to build apps for colleagues on top of the company's ERP, its core business software.
He completes up to five projects a day, where each used to take a week or more.
King then has the agent generate the apps in SuiteScript, NetSuite's own scripting language, so it runs inside the ERP. "Then you don't roast all those tokens," he said.
A call-logging screen linked to the CRM took him an afternoon. "We are basically rebuilding our entire environment by scratch," he said. He also warned that it "does require someone who knows what they're doing."
Diginomica notes that Oracle funded the writer's trip to SuiteWorld, where the interview took place. In late October Oracle said more than 13,000 NetSuite customers already use AI through Claude or ChatGPT.
Our reading for ERP architects: at five apps a day, review is likely to become the slow step. Someone decides which generated scripts may run inside the ERP and who tests them, and someone keeps them working after the next upgrade.
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