Sub-function
Requisition & PO
Owns requisition work end to end inside Procurement & Source-to-Pay. Runs 3 lines across 16 stations, drains the repeatable share into the S2P tower, and holds 3 human gates.
Estate rating
BBB
74 / 100
Catalog buying is fully touchless inside budget and policy. The approval gate exists only for spend outside the envelope.
Agents
9
Lines
3
Units / wk
19,656
Timetable vs actual
20.7h → 20.7h
Cost / unit
$3.68
was $11
Run-rate saving
$7.1M
annualized at this volume
The 9 agents running this sub-function
Grouped by what they are for, not by where they sit. The agent org is process-shaped.
Requisition Orchestrator
Owns the requisition & po lane end to end. Sequences the other agents, holds the timetable, and decides what surfaces to a human.
ceiling A4 · escalates to Escalates to Director, Procurement Operations when the unit falls outside the decision envelope or confidence drops below the floor.
Guided Buying Agent
Runs the repeatable portion of requisition & po inside the shared transaction spine at spine cost and spine controls.
ceiling A4 · escalates to Escalates to Director, Procurement Operations when the unit falls outside the decision envelope or confidence drops below the floor.
Approval Routing Agent
Runs the repeatable portion of requisition & po inside the shared transaction spine at spine cost and spine controls.
ceiling A4 · escalates to Escalates to Director, Procurement Operations when the unit falls outside the decision envelope or confidence drops below the floor.
Catalog Match Agent
Executes the requisition & po step it owns, posts its evidence, and hands the unit to the next stage.
ceiling A4 · escalates to Escalates to Director, Procurement Operations when the unit falls outside the decision envelope or confidence drops below the floor.
Budget Check Agent
Executes the requisition & po step it owns, posts its evidence, and hands the unit to the next stage.
ceiling A4 · escalates to Escalates to Director, Procurement Operations when the unit falls outside the decision envelope or confidence drops below the floor.
PO Issuance Agent
Executes the requisition & po step it owns, posts its evidence, and hands the unit to the next stage.
ceiling A4 · escalates to Escalates to Director, Procurement Operations when the unit falls outside the decision envelope or confidence drops below the floor.
Change Order Agent
Executes the requisition & po step it owns, posts its evidence, and hands the unit to the next stage.
ceiling A4 · escalates to Escalates to Director, Procurement Operations when the unit falls outside the decision envelope or confidence drops below the floor.
Requisition Policy Agent
Holds the rules that bind every other agent in requisition & po. Versions them, tests them against live decisions, and blocks work that breaches them.
ceiling A4 · escalates to Escalates on any decision that would breach a live policy version, with the clause cited.
Requisition & PO Challenger Agent
Adversarial reviewer for requisition & po. Argues the opposite case on every position and flags where the evidence does not carry the claim.
ceiling A4 · escalates to Escalates when a ratified position is still running against a break condition it flagged.
Estate rating breakdown
Seven control dimensions. Judgment readiness runs against autonomy on purpose.
People
What the humans stopped doing, and what they do now.
Roles held flat; released hours absorbed volume growth rather than headcount reduction.
Lines running in this sub-function
Each line is a workflow. Click a line to walk it station by station.
Strategy positions this sub-function holds
An agent that only executes is a robot. These are the calls it made, the argument against each one, and what would prove it wrong.
Requisition & PO Operating Position
In challengev1Is the current cost per requisition defensible against external comparators once inference spend is counted in full?
Hold the ceiling at A4 for requisition & po. Catalog buying is fully touchless inside budget and policy. The approval gate exists only for spend outside the envelope. Raise it only after two consecutive quarters where the override rate stays under five percent and every override has a written cause.
confidence
88%
The challenge — Requisition & PO Challenger Agent
Requisition & PO Challenger Agent argues the recommendation leans on 3 quarters of data from a period with no volume shock. The confidence band overlaps the alternative, and the position does not say what it would take to be wrong. Recorded as a dissent, not a block.
Break conditions
- ·Override rate rises above 12 percent for two consecutive months
- ·Cost per requisition stops falling while volume keeps rising
- ·A control failure in this lane reaches a customer or a regulator
Evidence gaps
- ·No independent test of the control evidence behind the touchless rate
| Alternative considered | Cost | Risk | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hold the current position | $325k run rate | Known and priced. Cedes ground if comparators move faster. | live |
| Raise the ceiling one level now | $1390k to build controls | Override rate is 12 percent; raising the ceiling before that settles imports the error into production. | rejected on evidence |
| Move the exception tail to the spine | $871k transition | Loses local context. Rework risk on the cases that are hardest to recover. | under review |
Policy register
The rules the agents above are bound by. Version, owner, approver, and the agents each rule constrains.
| Ref | Rule | Scope | Owner agent | Approved by | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PR8-POL-200 | Requisition & PO Decision Envelope Agents in this lane may act without a human when the requisition sits inside the stated value, risk and confidence envelope. Outside it, the unit holds at a gate with a named approver and a running clock. binds 6 agents · APAC | envelope | Requisition Policy Agent | Director, Procurement Operations | v4.6 | Active |
| PR8-POL-201 | Requisition & PO Evidence Standard Every autonomous decision writes inputs, the rule version applied, the model and prompt version, the output and a reversal path. An action with no evidence record is treated as a control failure, not a fast decision. binds 6 agents · EU · UK · US | evidence | Requisition Policy Agent | Director, Procurement Operations | v5.7 | Active |
| PR8-POL-202 | Requisition & PO Escalation Rule Escalation is mandatory when confidence falls below the floor, when two options sit inside the confidence band, or when a break condition on a ratified position fires. Director, Procurement Operations owns the response clock. binds 6 agents · APAC | escalation | Requisition Policy Agent | Director, Procurement Operations | v4.7 | Active |