Building the Integration Foundation That Makes AI Agents Actually Work

As manufacturers scale across ERPs, production systems, and fulfillment networks, point-to-point integrations and manual handoffs begin to break operations.

This playbook examines how a governed integration layer enables manufacturers to connect their ERP, MES, QMS, and TMS — automating order-to-cash workflows, de-risking ERP migrations, and transforming AI from an analytics overlay into an operational platform.

  • Why disconnected systems are the real barrier to AI in manufacturing
  • How to automate order-to-cash across ERP, MES, and logistics systems
  • How to de-risk ERP migrations with parallel operations and real-time validation
  • How Workato Enterprise MCP turns AI agents from observational to operational