For most of their history, ERP systems have done one job well: they record what happened. A sale, a purchase, a stock movement, a payment. The data goes in, it sits in the ledger, and someone pulls a report later to understand it. That model has run the back office for decades. Something is changing. Analysts now describe ERP shifting from a system of record to a system that can notice, decide, and act, a move Deloitte frames as the rise of agentic ERP. The pace is real rathe