As of 2 August 2026, the transparency provisions of the EU AI Act are binding. Even though Brussels has postponed the deadlines for high-risk applications, the core obligation stands: operators must disclose where machines are involved. This directly affects ERP landscapes, as assistants and agents have long been arriving there, often unnoticed through release updates. In many organisations we observe a gap between technical adoption and legal classification. The decisive question is one of roles: the vendor is responsible for the product, the operator for its use within business processes. Four tasks follow from this: an inventory of all active AI functions, a legal assessment of each use case, controlled approvals with human oversight, and training for employees. Our network recommends laying these foundations now. Swiss companies are affected too, as soon as their systems reach people in the EU. Done well, a regulatory duty becomes a trust advantage with customers and partners.
SAP
Aug 16, 2026
AI transparency duties: what ERP operators must implement now
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