September 2026 snapshot · 72 AI answers Greenfield

Manufacturing ERP: AI Visibility Ranking

ERP software for manufacturers covering production planning, inventory, work orders, and shop floor operations. Right now, Epicor Kinetic is the brand AI assistants recommend most, with a Visibility Score of 38 and the #1 spot in 7% of answers. Head-to-head: Epicor Kinetic vs Odoo →

These rankings are measured from what the three models know from training, not a live web search. When the models DO search the web, see which sources they cite. Methodology.

Manufacturing ERP is unclaimed territory with no clear AI favorite.

The leader, Odoo, appears in 49% of answers yet scores only 32 out of a possible 100, which signals that no brand has locked up this category in AI recommendations. SAP S/4HANA is the first pick 19% of the time despite ranking fourth overall, suggesting the models reach for it when a question fits but skip it otherwise. Katana and MRPeasy both outperform their mention rates on first-pick frequency, meaning the field is genuinely contested and a sustained visibility push could move any of these brands into a dominant position.

AI-generated analysis of the September 2026 measurements.

#	Brand	Visibility Score	Mention rate	Avg. position	#1 pick rate	Models
1	Epicor Kinetic	38 ±5	53%	3.9	7%	ChatGPT #2 Claude #2 Gemini #5
2	Odoo	32 ±5	49%	4.5	4%	ChatGPT #5 Claude #8 Gemini #1
3	Katana	26 ±7.8	35%	3.6	14%	ChatGPT #11 Claude #7 Gemini #2
4	SAP S/4HANA	25 ±5.4	29%	2.4	19%	ChatGPT #8 Claude #1 Gemini #12
5	MRPeasy	23 ±6.1	32%	3.7	13%	ChatGPT #4 Claude #13 Gemini #3
6	NetSuite	23 ±4.7	36%	4.7	4%	ChatGPT #1 Claude #10 Gemini #9
7	Acumatica	22 ±4.4	39%	5.4	0%	ChatGPT #3 Claude #14 Gemini #4
8	JobBOSS	20 ±5.6	32%	4.7	0%	ChatGPT #10 Claude #3 Gemini #7
9	Infor CloudSuite Industrial	19 ±4.4	28%	4.1	1%	ChatGPT #6 Claude #4 Gemini #10
10	Microsoft Dynamics 365	13 ±4.2	17%	3.2	0%	ChatGPT #7 Claude #9 Gemini #14
11	Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central	13 ±5.2	17%	3.4	4%	ChatGPT #9 Claude Gemini #6
12	SYSPRO	12 ±3.9	26%	6.4	1%	ChatGPT #13 Claude #5 Gemini
13	Fishbowl	10 ±4.3	17%	4.8	3%	ChatGPT Claude #6 Gemini #13
14	Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP	10 ±4.1	11%	2.1	0%	ChatGPT #12 Claude #11 Gemini #11
15	Plex	9 ±3.8	19%	6.5	0%	ChatGPT #14 Claude #12 Gemini #8

The ± under each score is the reliability band: how much the number would move if we re-ran the identical measurement. It is tight because each prompt is sampled multiple times. It is not the same as how much the ranking depends on which prompts we ask — a separate, wider figure shown on hover.

Just below the cutoff: Katana MRP (7.5), Microsoft Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management (7.2), Oracle Manufacturing Cloud (6.3), Oracle NetSuite (6.1), SAP Business One (5.8). 90 brands were scored in this category; the leaderboard shows the top 15.

Visibility Score: position-weighted presence across all measured answers, 0 to 100. A score of 100 means the brand was the first recommendation in every answer. Every point in a trend line is a live monthly measurement; there is no modeled or backfilled history. Full methodology.

Openness 62/100: the share of this category's recommendation weight not held by the leader.

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Do the models agree?

Per-model Visibility Scores for the top 10. A long gray bar means the three assistants disagree about the brand. Hover a row for exact values.

ChatGPT Claude Gemini

Where they land in the answer

When a brand is mentioned, where does it appear? Box shows the middle 50% of positions, the thick line is the median, whiskers are the extremes. Hover a row for the detail.