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Function cockpit

Supply Chain

Continuous sensing and bounded replanning, with plan stability enforced.

Autonomy0% / 83%

Phase: Phase 3 — Functional orchestration

Sense demand, inventory, capacity and disruption continuously; execute bounded replanning inside stability limits; and put material service trade-offs in front of humans.

Trust score

0

Touchless

0%

Human review

0%

Override rate

0%

Capacity released

20-30% inventory reduction and 5-20% logistics-cost savings (aspiration, not additive)

Accountable human

Chief Supply Chain Officer

CoS agent: Supply Chain Chief of Staff

How a unit moves: the conductor, the five desks, the agents, and the people

Flow of work

How work actually moves through Supply Chain

Work enters on the left. Supply Chain Chief of Staff routes it to one of five desks. A named agent does the work. It leaves as cleared, as evidence posted, or as a hold for a person. Every packet you see below is weighted by the real distribution of 185 live units.

See it as a line map

Live units

185

Moving now

107

in flight at a station

Held for a person

25

66 past SLA

Agents on the floor

91

11 sub-functions

Control gates

30

rules a unit cannot pass

Interchanges

14

handoffs out of the function

Flow of work

Supply Chain Chief of Staff and the desks reporting to it

Each packet is a unit of work. Desk weighting and the outcome mix are taken from the 185 units live in this function.

WORK ENTERS5 named triggers · 185 units liveSupply Chain Chief of StaffConductor · arbitrates the queue, sets the route, owns the clock107 in flight · 25 held · 66 past SLAStrategyTakes a position15 agents · 15 stations375 in flight · 0 gatesPolicyWrites the envelope5 agents · 30 stations115 in flight · 30 gatesObserveWatches and warns16 agents · 0 stations0 in flight · 0 gatesWorkflowDoes the work37 agents · 68 stations1526 in flight · 0 gatesAI GBSProcesses at scale18 agents · 65 stations1428 in flight · 0 gatesResilience & Risk ChalleA2Supplier Collaboration CA2Trade & Customs ChallengA2Promise PolicyA2Planning PolicyA2Restricted PartyA2Supply Resilience OrchesA3Demand Planning OrchestrA3Disruption SensingA3Portal SupportA3Cycle CountA4Duty OptimizationA3Statistical ForecastA4Shipment TrackingA4DocumentationA3+ 12 more on this desk+ 2 more on this desk+ 13 more on this desk+ 34 more on this desk+ 15 more on this deskCleared in envelopeAgent closed it. Sampled later.0 delivered this runCleared, evidence postedClosed with the proof filed.0 delivered this runHeld for a personAgent stopped. Clock running.0 delivered this runresults return to the conductor
Cleared in envelopeCleared, evidence postedHeld for a person0 units completed a full circuit this run

What starts the work

The triggers that put a unit on a line, ranked by live volume.

  • Runs transactional

    Runs transactional. Starts when a request lands in the queue.

    56

  • Runs transactional

    Runs transactional. Starts when an upstream system posts an event.

    45

  • Runs transactional

    Runs transactional. Starts when a scheduled window opens.

    37

  • Runs transactional

    Runs transactional. Starts when a threshold is crossed.

    18

  • Runs analytical

    Runs analytical. Starts when a leader asks the question.

    8

Where the work goes next

Shared services that run the transaction, and the functions this one hands to.

The five desks

What Supply Chain Chief of Staff is actually conducting

Each desk is a layer of the operating model, not a team. The conductor decides which desk owns a unit, then which agent on that desk picks it up.

Takes a position

Strategy

15 agents

Agents that take positions, argue them, and get held to the outcome.

Receives

A question the function has to answer with money or people behind it.

Emits

A written position with assumptions, alternatives priced, and break conditions.

tasks 24h

1,717

in flight

375

held

1

gates

0

confidence 7800%override 1000.0%
  • Resilience & Risk Challenger AgentResilience & RiskA2
  • Supplier Collaboration Challenger AgentSupplier CollaborationA2
  • Trade & Customs Challenger AgentTrade & CustomsA2
  • Warehouse & Fulfillment Challenger AgentWarehouse & FulfillmentA2
  • Network Design Challenger AgentNetwork DesignA2
  • Inventory Philosophy AgentInventory OptimizationA2

+ 9 more on this desk

Writes the envelope

Policy

5 agents

The written rules every other agent is bound by, with version and owner.

Receives

A position that has been accepted, plus every regulator and control change.

Emits

Versioned rules that bind every other desk, with an owner and an effective date.

tasks 24h

486

in flight

115

held

10

gates

30

confidence 8400%override 1100.0%
  • Promise Policy AgentOrder PromisingA2
  • Planning Policy AgentDemand PlanningA2
  • Restricted Party AgentTrade & CustomsA2
  • Supply Policy AgentSupply PlanningA2
  • Trade Policy AgentTrade & CustomsA2

Watches and warns

Observe

16 agents

Continuous sensing of the outside world and of the agents themselves.

Receives

Outside signals and the behavior of the agents themselves.

Emits

Alerts, drift flags, and the evidence the conductor uses to reroute work.

tasks 24h

1,706

in flight

0

held

0

gates

0

confidence 8300%override 1200.0%
  • Supply Resilience OrchestratorResilience & RiskA3
  • Demand Planning OrchestratorDemand PlanningA3
  • Disruption Sensing AgentResilience & RiskA3
  • Order Promising OrchestratorOrder PromisingA3
  • Integrated Planning OrchestratorSales & Operations PlanningA3
  • Freight Audit AgentLogistics & TransportationA4

+ 10 more on this desk

Does the work

Workflow

37 agents

Doing the work: lines, stations, and live units moving through them.

Receives

Live units of work entering at the first station of a line.

Emits

Cleared work, posted evidence, and holds when a unit leaves the envelope.

tasks 24h

81,491

in flight

1526

held

7

gates

0

confidence 7900%override 500.0%
  • Portal Support AgentSupplier CollaborationA3
  • Cycle Count AgentWarehouse & FulfillmentA4
  • Duty Optimization AgentTrade & CustomsA3
  • Multi-tier Mapping AgentResilience & RiskA3
  • Carbon Modeling AgentNetwork DesignA2
  • Labor Forecast AgentWarehouse & FulfillmentA4

+ 31 more on this desk

Processes at scale

AI GBS

18 agents

Repeatable transaction processing run once for the whole enterprise.

Receives

Repeatable transactions handed off from every function on the same spine.

Emits

Settled transactions, a cost per unit, and exceptions back to the owning desk.

tasks 24h

43,084

in flight

1428

held

7

gates

0

confidence 8300%override 400.0%
  • Statistical Forecast AgentDemand PlanningA4
  • Shipment Tracking AgentLogistics & TransportationA4
  • Documentation AgentTrade & CustomsA3
  • Emissions AgentLogistics & TransportationA4
  • Safety Stock AgentInventory OptimizationA4
  • Carrier Selection AgentLogistics & TransportationA4

+ 12 more on this desk

Human lanes

Where the conductor stops and asks a person

The conductor does not decide everything. Materiality routes a unit to a named human role, and the clock keeps running while it waits.

Function Leader

Critical

Blast radius or value beyond what any agent in this function may commit.

waiting

1

oldest

147h 44m

Process Owner

High

A policy exception inside the function, or a gate the agent is not rated for.

waiting

1

oldest

4h 21m

Approver

Medium

Routine four-eyes on a commitment the agent has already prepared.

waiting

17

oldest

6h 44m

No person required

Low

Inside the envelope. Cleared by the agent and sampled after the fact.

waiting

56

oldest

6h 37m

Walk one unit

Follow the single piece of work with the most at stake

Diagrams argue. A unit proves. Step through the actual route this unit is taking, station by station, and read the evidence written at each action.

SC11C-1012human-holdcritical materialityline SC11C

Risk event at challenge

Rafael Adeyemi · raised by Sanjay Raman · $34.8m at stake · touches 427 downstream things if it goes wrong.

Full unit record
Station 1 of 6

The route

Frame

cleared

Disruption Sensing Agent handled this station and released the unit onward. Design dwell here is 43h 8m against an SLA of 86h 23m.

Owned by

Disruption Sensing Agent

Layer

strategy

Dwell vs SLA

43h 8m / 86h 23m

Evidence trail recorded so far

5 entries. Written when an action is taken, not when a station is passed.

  1. -8864mDisruption Sensing Agent Cleared frameevidence: Inputs, rule version and output hash written to the evidence log
  2. -7091mMulti-tier Mapping Agent Cleared model optionsevidence: Inputs, rule version and output hash written to the evidence log
  3. -5318mSingle-source Risk Agent Cleared cost of resilienceevidence: Inputs, rule version and output hash written to the evidence log
  4. -3546mPlaybook Activation Agent Cleared draft positionevidence: Inputs, rule version and output hash written to the evidence log
  5. -1773mRecovery Coordination Agent Holding at challengeevidence: Inputs, rule version and output hash written to the evidence log

SLA breached by 20h 2m

Trace a different unit

SC1A-1052Forecast item at lockSC4C-1022Stock item at executeSC5B-1043Shipment at approveSC9A-1032Promise at confirmSC2A-1016Supply plan at draft planSC2B-1008Supply plan at escalate cost

The walk above always picks the unit in supply chain with the most at stake right now.

What this view is and is not

Every count, agent, station, gate and unit on this page is read from the live records for Supply Chain. The moving packets in the diagram are a visual weighting of that same distribution, not a live message bus: they show where volume goes, not individual transactions in real time. The human lanes are the routing rule, not a staffing model. Chief Supply Chain Officer remains accountable for this function whatever the conductor clears.