What challenges did EY face before AI implementation?

Identify and scale high-value agentic AI opportunities across fragmented SAP business processes. Operationalize agentic opportunities into working prototypes for financial close and supply chain/inventory workflows.

What was the impact of the AI solution?

175+ agentic use cases were identified and translated into prototypes and solution designs. The effort produced tangible operational value today and a scalable blueprint for future enterprise transformation.

Source

MicrosoftProductionEvidence: Medium50/100

EY.ai Agentic Acceleration Engine for agentic use cases in SAP finance, logistics, and inventory (SAP on Azure)

Use case typeERP automationUpdated May 12, 2026

EY built an EY.ai Agentic Acceleration Engine to identify and scale high-value agentic AI opportunities across fragmented SAP business processes. The program analyzed SAP financial close and supply chain workflows and turned them into working prototypes and solution designs for enterprise operations.

Organization: EY
Industry: Professional Services
Location: United States
Published: May 2026

Reported outcomes

Agentic use cases identified and prototyped: More than 175 count

Other quantified impact

Why do we believe this?Outcome claims, sources, and evidence checks

Normalized claim

Agentic use cases identified and prototyped: 175 count

Microsoft Azure BlogMay 12, 2026Blog postExplicit claimMedium evidence strength

identified over 175 high-value agentic use cases, and rapidly translate them into interactive prototypes and solution designs

Why do we believe this deployment?Customer identity, provider attribution, maturity, and source checks

Customer: EY
Provider: Microsoft
Maturity: Production
Linked source: Microsoft Azure Blog

The effort produced tangible operational value today and a scalable blueprint for future enterprise transformation

Customer identity supportedSource describes one deploymentMaturity supported

Primary read

Use case focus

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1ERP automation
2Workflow orchestration
3Supply chain optimization

EY teams analyzed SAP business processes and identified 175+ high-value agentic use cases.
They rapidly translated the opportunities into interactive prototypes and solution designs.
Agent teams supported SAP-based financial close activities and intelligent supply chain and inventory management platforms where agents transact across SAP Finance, Logistics, Inventory, and Sales modules.
The solution used Azure OpenAI, Microsoft Copilot Studio, Azure AI Foundry, and Microsoft 365 Copilot on SAP on Azure.

Technologies

Azure OpenAI Copilot Studio Microsoft Foundry Microsoft 365 Copilot SAP on Azure

175+ agentic use cases were identified and translated into prototypes and solution designs.
The effort produced tangible operational value today and a scalable blueprint for future enterprise transformation.

Architecture

EY's agentic engine combines Azure OpenAI, Microsoft Copilot Studio/Azure AI Foundry, Microsoft 365 Copilot, and SAP on Azure to build agent teams and interactive prototypes that work across SAP Finance, Logistics, Inventory, and Sales modules.

Implementation partners1

SAP

Sources & evidence1

Evidence: Medium50/100Evidence strength