Sage, a leader in accounting, financial, HR, and payroll technology for small and mid-sized businesses, today announced the introduction of Sage Copilot to Sage Operations (formerly named “Sage Distribution and Manufacturing Operations”).
Sage Operations is a cloud-based solution for manufacturing and distribution businesses that unifies sales orders, inventory, procurement, fulfillment and customer communication into one connected workflow. Sage Operations gives manufacturing and distribution teams a unified operational workflow that helps them:
- See real-time insight across stock, orders, suppliers and fulfillment so risks can be identified earlier.
- Respond faster to delays, bottlenecks and exceptions with a single view of operational activity.
- Work consistently across sales orders, inventory, procurement and fulfillment without switching between systems.
- Operate smoothly across multiple warehouses, locations and companies as they scale.
- Use accurate, connected operational data to communicate proactively with customers and make more confident decisions.
New AI-powered Capabilities in Sage Operations
This update to Sage Operations gives manufacturing and distribution teams a clearer and more proactive way to manage daily operations, helping them spot issues earlier, make faster decisions, and maintain consistent performance across fulfillment and supply chain activity.
Manufacturers and distributors continue to feel pressure to improve visibility and act before problems escalate. Analyst research supports this move toward more autonomous decision-making, with Gartner predicting that 25% of supply chain KPI reporting will be powered by GenAI models by 20281. The introduction of Sage Copilot to Sage Operations is a key step in that direction, giving businesses reliable, context aware insights that help teams focus on customer needs instead of administrative work
“Manufacturers and distributors need tools that cut through complexity, not add to it,” said Rob Sinfield, SVP, ERP, Sage. “Sage Copilot gives teams a clearer view of emerging risks so they can act before problems escalate and safeguard service quality. By bringing trusted AI into everyday operational decisions, it strengthens performance where speed, accuracy and customer expectations matter most.”
Helping teams stay ahead of operational risk
Built using Sage Ai, Sage Copilot surfaces timely insight on key operational, fulfillment and customer issues. Teams can identify potential delays and bottlenecks earlier, understand the drivers of operational risk, and act sooner to protect timelines and service levels.
Insights are delivered directly into existing workflows, so staff can prioritize tasks, resolve issues quickly and maintain consistent service quality without switching between systems or relying on manual checks. This improves performance in environments where speed, accuracy, and responsiveness are essential for customer satisfaction and revenue protection.
A step towards more agentic workflows
The introduction of Sage Copilot into Sage Operations lays the foundation for a broader network of intelligent operational agents embedded across the manufacturing and distribution lifecycle. These agents will not only flag emerging issues but will increasingly take on routine decision and action work that currently occupies operational teams.
As these capabilities evolve, organizations can expect fewer manual checks, faster responses to fulfillment risks and stronger customer relationships. This is enabled by domain-specific assistants that are built directly into workflow and designed to support the way operational teams work every day.
By bringing this level of autonomy into Sage Operations, businesses can shift from reacting to problems to staying ahead of them, allowing teams to focus on value-adding work instead of administrative tasks. This direction forms part of Sage’s wider roadmap to deliver trusted, real-world AI agents into industry-specific workflows, improving efficiency, resilience, and long-term performance across the supply chain.
These capabilities are powered by the Sage Platform, which provides the connected data, AI services and workflow foundation that enables more autonomous, agentic operations across the supply chain.
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