The catalogue Supply ChainSupply PlanningTransactional

Service SC2A

Supply Plan Cycle

Runs transactional. Starts when a request lands in the queue. It runs 7,162 times a week across 7 stations. One of those stations stops for a person and 6 are done by an agent, 4 of them on the shared spine.

Runs a week

7,162

160 in flight right now.

Stations

1 person · 2 agent · 4 spine

Agent share of steps

86%

Autonomy on this service is set at 75% against a ceiling of 84%.

Decisions a person makes

Held by Director, Supply Planning.

Touchless

84%

Share of runs that complete without anybody opening them.

Timetable against actual

24.1h

Actual 30.6h, 6.5h over the timetable.

Operations

The lane diagram

Read it left to right. more

Person1 station and 54% of the dwellAgent2 stations and 28% of the dwellShared spine4 stations and 18% of the dwell3 crossings between lanes

Human

decides

Agent

does the work

GBS

shared spine

System

attributed by rule

Group ERP — Materials and Inventory

Enterprise Data Warehouse

Group ERP — Materials and Inventory

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	Explode requirements	GBS	Capacity Balancing Agent	gbs	1h 21m	2h 33m	46	Group ERP — Materials and Inventory
2	Balance capacity	GBS	Capacity Balancing Agent	gbs	20m	45m	4	Group ERP — Materials and Inventory
3	Detect constraints	Agent	Material Requirements Agent	workflow	1h 17m	2h 10m	18	Enterprise Data Warehouse
4	Draft plan	Agent	Supplier Commit Agent	workflow	2h 40m	3h 30m	36	Group ERP — Materials and Inventory
5	Planner review Held for a named human when the unit exceeds the supply plan decision envelope, when confidence falls below the floor, or when a policy clause is engaged.	Human	Director, Supply Planning	policy	7h 32m	16h 16m	0	Group ERP — Materials and Inventory
6	Commit	GBS	Capacity Balancing Agent	gbs	7m	9m	29	Group ERP — Materials and Inventory
7	Release to suppliers Hands over at procurement	GBS	Capacity Balancing Agent	gbs	41m	1h 26m	27	Group ERP — Materials and Inventory

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%

7,162 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 gates1542 people

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

53,953.7h

7,162 items at 452 minutes of decision each.

Agent time a week

46,075.5h

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

Gate load

100%

Inside capacity, with 16.3h of headroom.

Stations without a person

86%

1 gate left on 7 stations.

Where an item spends its time

54% waiting on a person

46% in the agent lane

An item now takes 838 minutes of worked time end to end against 838 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 Supply Plan Cycle

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

7 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

7 stations, nothing waiting, nothing sent back

0 min of 14 hrs

now Explode requirements · Capacity Balancing Agent · 1.4 hrs

As the ledger has it

the same stations, plus 5 categories the estate already counts

0 min of 31 hrs

now Explode requirements · Capacity Balancing Agent · 1.4 hrs

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

5 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

The separation register records a duty conflict against a sub-function and a named post, not against one procedure. 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

2 systems attributed

0 of 2 returning records

The system register

Group ERP — Materials and Inventory

SAP S/4HANA MM · supply · bidirectional · high

modeled

6 of 7 stations attributed here · would write back

Enterprise Data Warehouse

Snowflake · analytics · inbound · critical

modeled

1 of 7 stations attributed here · read only

System attribution is a rule, not a reading. more

Who runs it

Orchestration and accountability

Orchestrated by: Supply Planning Orchestrator
That orchestrator’s remit: Owns supply plan work end to end inside Supply Chain. Runs 3 lines across 17 stations, drains the repeatable share into the M2D tower, and holds 3 human gates.
Accountable person: Director, Supply Planning
Sub-function: Supply Planning
Shared spine tower: m2d
Hand-over points: procurement

Other services in this sub-function

2 alongside this one

Constraint ResolutionSC2B Allocation DecisionSC2C

What this page is and is not

This is a catalogue of the modeled estate. more