The catalogue Procurement & Source-to-PayCategory StrategyJudgment

Service PR1A

Category Strategy Refresh

Runs judgment. Starts when a break condition on a live position fires. It runs 1 times a week across 8 stations. One of those stations stops for a person and 7 are done by an agent, 1 of them on the shared spine.

Runs a week

232 in flight right now.

Stations

1 person · 6 agent · 1 spine

Agent share of steps

88%

Autonomy on this service is set at 42% against a ceiling of 68%.

Decisions a person makes

Held by VP Category Management.

Touchless

28%

Share of runs that complete without anybody opening them.

Timetable against actual

473.1h

Actual 522.6h, 49.5h over the timetable.

Operations

The lane diagram

Read it left to right. more

Person1 station and 9% of the dwellAgent6 stations and 74% of the dwellShared spine1 station and 17% of the dwell2 crossings between lanes

Human

decides

Agent

does the work

GBS

shared spine

System

attributed by rule

Group ERP — Financials

Click any station to see who does it, what it costs in time, the rule that gates it and the system attributed to it.

Operations

Every station in order

The same stations as a list, with the dwell the estate records against each one and the system a station of that shape would touch.

#	Station	Lane	Who	Layer	Dwell	Target	In flight	System
1	Frame category	Agent	Market Structure Agent	strategy	48h 2m	79h 49m	39	Group ERP — Financials
2	Map market	Agent	Supply Base Mapping Agent	strategy	28h 27m	36h 22m	37	Group ERP — Financials
3	Model should-cost	Agent	Demand Profile Agent	strategy	60h 38m	108h 16m	43	Group ERP — Financials
4	Model options	Agent	Should-cost Modeling Agent	strategy	11h 59m	15h 26m	46	Group ERP — Financials
5	Draft strategy	Agent	Category Strategy Agent	strategy	63h 21m	78h	16	Group ERP — Financials
6	Challenge	Agent	Make-Buy-Partner Agent	strategy	51h 11m	94h 36m	11	Group ERP — Financials
7	Council ratify Held for a named human when the unit exceeds the category plan decision envelope, when confidence falls below the floor, or when a policy clause is engaged.	Human	VP Category Management	policy	33h 5m	56h 59m	9	Group ERP — Financials
8	Publish	GBS	Category Strategy Orchestrator	gbs	60h 39m	105h 6m	31	Group ERP — Financials

Operations

Run it

Change the volume, move the autonomy line, release a gate, and watch what happens to the hours in each lane and to the time it takes one run to get through. more

Move something

Demand100%

1 a week is what the estate records. more

Decisions handed to agents0 of 0

This service has at most one gate, so there is nothing to hand over without removing the last human decision.

People on the gates1 person

Each one is assumed to have 2,100 productive minutes a week, which is 35 hours.

Agent speed100%

100% is the dwell the estate records today. more

Person time a week

33.1h

1 items at 1,985 minutes of decision each.

Agent time a week

324.3h

19,457 minutes an item, which does not compete for a person.

Gate load

95%

Inside capacity, with 1.9h of headroom.

Stations without a person

88%

1 gate left on 8 stations.

Where an item spends its time

91% in the agent lane

An item now takes 21,442 minutes of worked time end to end against 21,442 in the recorded estate, a change of +0%. This is worked time, not calendar time: nothing here models a queue or a weekend.

What this model is, on Category Strategy Refresh

The simulation is arithmetic on the estate, not a queueing model. more

How it runs

Run it again, going wrong

The same unit and the same stations, broken the way the estate already records breaking. more

8 stations, walked twice

Once clean, once with the categories the estate counts

This is the same unit on the same stations, breaking. more

No break below was chosen. more

One play head, two tracks, the same scale. The clean run stops when it runs out of stations; the other one keeps going.

As written

8 stations, nothing waiting, nothing sent back

0 min of 14.9 days

now Frame category · Market Structure Agent · 2.0 days

As the ledger has it

the same stations, plus 3 categories the estate already counts

0 min of 15.1 days

now Frame category · Market Structure Agent · 2.0 days

personagentshared spinework the break addsnobody working it

What breaks, and where it is counted

No break below was chosen. more

What the two runs say together

3 counted categories land on this procedure. more

What this run cannot claim

These breaks are shown together on one unit so the shape of a bad day fits on one screen. more

Two clocks run. Worked time is the sum of the time the work is actually being done … more

Live observability

Systems this service would touch

Attributed by rule from the function's system list. more

1 systems attributed

0 of 1 returning records

The system register

Group ERP — Financials

SAP S/4HANA · ledger · bidirectional · critical

modeled

8 of 8 stations attributed here · would write back

System attribution is a rule, not a reading. more

Who runs it

Orchestration and accountability

Orchestrated by: Category Strategy Orchestrator
That orchestrator’s remit: Owns category plan work end to end inside Procurement & Source-to-Pay. Runs 3 lines across 18 stations, drains the repeatable share into no shared tower, and holds 3 human gates.
Accountable person: VP Category Management
Sub-function: Category Strategy
Shared spine tower: Not on the shared spine
Hand-over points: None — this service stays inside its function

Other services in this sub-function

2 alongside this one

Make-Buy-Partner PositionPR1B Category Performance ReadPR1C

What this page is and is not

This is a catalogue of the modeled estate. more