Function cockpit
Procurement & Source-to-Pay
Compliant intake to touchless invoice, with humans on strategy and risk.
Phase: Phase 3 — Functional orchestration
Make every buying request land on a compliant path, then run sourcing, negotiation, ordering and matching as bounded agent work under sanctions, supplier and payment controls.
Trust score
0
Touchless
0%
Human review
0%
Override rate
0%
Capacity released
25-40% efficiency; touchless invoice best-in-class 52.8%
Accountable human
Chief Procurement Officer
CoS agent: Procurement Chief of Staff
Gates, kill switches, and the decision ledger
Governance
Autonomy is only defensible if the brakes are documented
Every gate below names a threshold, an approver, and a clock. more
Active gates
0
Pending decisions
0
Approved this cycle
0
Contained or reversed
0
Gate register
The conditions under which an agent must stop and ask.
| Gate | Trigger threshold | Approver | SLA | Waivable |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purchase order above $25,000 Approval gate | Any PO above $25,000 or off approved catalog or unbudgeted | Category manager | 1 business day | Hard stop |
New supplier or bank-detail change Approval gate | Supplier onboarding or any change to payment banking details | Procurement controller | 2 business days | Hard stop |
Payment above $100,000 Approval gate | Payment release above $100,000 | Finance controller | Payment run | Hard stop |
Single-source award or critical negotiation Escalation | Single-source exception or any negotiation affecting critical supply | Chief Procurement Officer | 3 business days | Hard stop |
Decision ledger
Immutable record of what was decided, by whom, and how long it took.
- Approval gate
PRC-9041: released by human
ApprovedMediumRFx comparison pack — logistics tender — decided from the Enterprise Chief of Staff lens on the ops floor.
Avery Chen (Enterprise Chief of Staff) · 58d 21h ago
- Oversight
Bank-detail change contained
ContainedHighSupplier Risk Agent detected a bank-detail change request originating from an unverified domain for a tier-1 supplier. more
Supplier Risk Agent · 59d 22h ago
- Notification
Tail negotiation closed at 3.1% savings
Auto-executedLowNegotiation Agent concluded 38 tail-spend agreements within mandate. Average saving 3.1%, average term extension 12 days.
Negotiation Agent · 60d 0h ago
- Approval gate
Single-source award requested — specialty resin
PendingHighSourcing Agent found only one qualified supplier within lead-time constraints. more
Chief Procurement Officer · 60d 1h ago
Requester can escalate only at this materiality - Escalation
Duplicate payment pattern detected
ContainedHighInvoice Agent identified three invoices matching a prior payment signature across two entities. more
Invoice Agent · 60d 3h ago
Kill switches
Named, tested, and reachable in one click by the accountable human.
- Sanctions or denied-party alert
- Supplier bank-detail anomaly
- Collusion or bid-rigging signal
- Duplicate-payment pattern detected
- Off-contract spend surge beyond tolerance
Human accountability
Cannot be delegated to an agent at any autonomy level.
- Category strategy and critical-supplier selection
- Material negotiation and single-source exceptions
- Sanctions and integrity judgment
- Supplier termination
- Major payment release
Signs for this function
Chief Procurement Officer