Last Newsletter we asked you about potential future work areas for ERP and recorded activity on the website. The chart shows the results. Clearly there’s a lot more interest in Autonomous Vehicles and Digitisation than there is in Flexibility and Emerging Technologies. However is this because they sound new and exciting, or does it really represent a picture of where ERP should best place its efforts?

ERP members will take this on board and propose a new work programme, which will be based around three key questions:

• Is it a system wide issue?
• Is anyone else doing it?
• Can ERP add value?

Watch this space for details.