Service SL6A
Deal Approval
Runs transactional. Starts when a scheduled window opens. It runs 3,120 times a week across 8 stations. 2 of those stations stop for a person and 6 are done by an agent, 1 of them on the shared spine.
Runs a week
3,120
148 in flight right now.
Stations
8
2 person · 5 agent · 1 spine
Agent share of steps
75%
Autonomy on this service is set at 76% against a ceiling of 76%.
Decisions a person makes
2
Held by Director, Deal Desk.
Touchless
78%
Share of runs that complete without anybody opening them.
Timetable against actual
2.7h
Actual 3.5h, 0.8h over the timetable.
Operations
The lane diagram
Read it left to right. more
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 | Submit | Agent | Discount Policy Agent | workflow | 2h 10m | 2h 50m | 27 | Customer Relationship Management |
| 2 | Policy screen | GBS | Approval Routing Agent | gbs | 35m | 1h 1m | 10 | Customer Relationship Management |
| 3 | Margin model | Agent | Non-standard Terms Agent | workflow | 1h 19m | 2h 58m | 28 | Contract Lifecycle Management |
| 4 | Precedent check | Agent | Approval Routing Agent | workflow | 1h 35m | 3h 33m | 34 | Configure, Price and Quote |
| 5 | Route approvers | Agent | Precedent Lookup Agent | workflow | 1h 19m | 2h 34m | 18 | Customer Relationship Management |
| 6 | Finance approve Held for a named human when the unit exceeds the deal decision envelope, when confidence falls below the floor, or when a policy clause is engaged. Hands over at finance | Human | Director, Deal Desk | policy | 9h 28m | 18h 39m | 3 | Contract Lifecycle Management |
| 7 | Legal approve Held for a named human when the unit exceeds the deal decision envelope, when confidence falls below the floor, or when a policy clause is engaged. Hands over at legal | Human | Director, Deal Desk | policy | 8h 25m | 11h 37m | 7 | Contract Lifecycle Management |
| 8 | Release to quote Hands over at revenue-operations | Agent | Deal Desk Orchestrator | workflow | 2h 30m | 3h 23m | 21 | Contract Lifecycle Management |
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
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 27 hrs
now Submit · Discount Policy Agent · 2.2 hrs
As the ledger has it
the same stations, plus 6 categories the estate already counts
0 min of 2.5 days
now Submit · Discount Policy Agent · 2.2 hrs
What breaks, and where it is counted
No break below was chosen. more
What the two runs say together
6 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
3 systems attributed
0 of 3 returning records
Contract Lifecycle Management
Icertis · legal · bidirectional · high
4 of 8 stations attributed here · would write back
Customer Relationship Management
Salesforce Sales Cloud · crm · bidirectional · critical
3 of 8 stations attributed here · would write back
Configure, Price and Quote
Salesforce CPQ · crm · inbound · high
1 of 8 stations attributed here · read only
System attribution is a rule, not a reading. more
Who runs it
Orchestration and accountability
- Orchestrated by
- Deal Desk Orchestrator
- That orchestrator’s remit
- Owns deal work end to end inside Sales. Runs 3 lines across 18 stations, drains the repeatable share into the O2C tower, and holds 4 human gates.
- Accountable person
- Director, Deal Desk
- Sub-function
- Deal Desk & Approvals
- Shared spine tower
- o2c
- Hand-over points
- finance, legal, revenue-operations
Other services in this sub-function
2 alongside this one
What this page is and is not
This is a catalogue of the modeled estate. more