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Function cockpit

Procurement & Source-to-Pay

Compliant intake to touchless invoice, with humans on strategy and risk.

Autonomy0% / 86%

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. Everything the function has decided recently sits in the ledger underneath, whether a person or an agent made the call.

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.

GateTrigger thresholdApproverSLAWaivable

Purchase order above $25,000

Approval gate		Any PO above $25,000 or off approved catalog or unbudgetedCategory manager1 business dayHard stop

New supplier or bank-detail change

Approval gate		Supplier onboarding or any change to payment banking detailsProcurement controller2 business daysHard stop

Payment above $100,000

Approval gate		Payment release above $100,000Finance controllerPayment runHard stop

Single-source award or critical negotiation

Escalation		Single-source exception or any negotiation affecting critical supplyChief Procurement Officer3 business daysHard stop

Decision ledger

Immutable record of what was decided, by whom, and how long it took.

1 awaiting you
  • Approval gate

    PRC-9041: released by human

    ApprovedMedium

    RFx comparison pack — logistics tender — decided from the Enterprise Chief of Staff lens on the ops floor.

    Avery Chen (Enterprise Chief of Staff) · 8d 5h ago

  • Oversight

    Bank-detail change contained

    ContainedHigh

    Supplier Risk Agent detected a bank-detail change request originating from an unverified domain for a tier-1 supplier. Payment run frozen for that vendor pending callback verification.

    Supplier Risk Agent · 9d 6h ago

  • Notification

    Tail negotiation closed at 3.1% savings

    Auto-executedLow

    Negotiation Agent concluded 38 tail-spend agreements within mandate. Average saving 3.1%, average term extension 12 days.

    Negotiation Agent · 9d 8h ago

  • Approval gate

    Single-source award requested — specialty resin

    PendingHigh

    Sourcing Agent found only one qualified supplier within lead-time constraints. Comparison evidence and resilience impact packaged for CPO decision.

    Chief Procurement Officer · 9d 10h ago

    Requester can escalate only at this materiality
  • Escalation

    Duplicate payment pattern detected

    ContainedHigh

    Invoice Agent identified three invoices matching a prior payment signature across two entities. Batch held and forwarded to Finance controls.

    Invoice Agent · 9d 12h 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