Jannie Potgieter

Position: Founder & Group CEO
Organization: Collaborit Asset Management Engineering

Session Overview

SAP with AI: Governed Acceleration
AI is being adopted rapidly across the SAP landscape. We are seeing it in smarter search and copilots for everyday SAP work, as well as automation across master data, work management, analytics, and decision support. However, value does not come from simply throwing problems at AI. In SAP EAM especially, outcomes depend on the quality of the underlying data, including asset structures, work history, failure data, bills of material, task lists, and measurement data. They also depend on how AI is governed inside real business processes. Without a clear context model, controlled standards and rules, and human review, AI can amplify bad data, inconsistent taxonomies, and poor process discipline. The result is faster output, but not necessarily correct decisions.
That is why human involvement is non-negotiable. The best results come when AI is used as an accelerator. Engineers, planners, and SAP SMEs set the standards, validate edge cases, and continuously refine the logic as the operating environment changes. AI then scales that expertise consistently and at speed.
At Collaborit, this is reshaping our offering. We are embedding AI into how we deliver asset management engineering, SAP EAM solutions, reliability, and optimisation. This helps clients get decision grade data and usable process outcomes faster, not just more automation. Our model connects people, processes, and technology to assets. It combines deep engineering and SAP capability with embedded solutions that run in SAP, including ECC and S4HANA, to sustain governance, usability, and performance over time.

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