Function cockpit
Supply Chain
Continuous sensing and bounded replanning, with plan stability enforced.
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
Cost to serve per unit including inference, and where the capacity went
Unit economics
What a unit of Supply Chain work costs to serve
Cost per unit is stated after inference, not before it. Model spend, retrieval, evaluation and the human review time that agents still trigger are all inside the number. A cost-per-unit figure that excludes inference is a marketing number.
Units per week
114,337
Cost to serve / wk
$1.2M
was $3.8M
Run-rate saving
$136.4M
annualized at current volume
Inference spend / wk
$200K
17% of cost to serve
Capacity released
286.7 FTE
682 → 395 on the work
Cost to serve by sub-function
Before and after, per unit, with the inference component shown separately.
| Sub-function | Units / wk | Cost / unit before | Cost / unit now | Of which inference | Change | Weekly delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Demand Planning | 8,143 | $28 | $6.81 | $1.19 | -76% | $175K |
| Supply Planning | 15,564 | $47 | $17 | $1.86 | -64% | $470K |
| Sales & Operations Planning | 88 | $1K | $401 | $65 | -62% | $58K |
| Inventory Optimization | 10,449 | $35 | $9.49 | $1.48 | -73% | $270K |
| Logistics & Transportation | 10,029 | $44 | $11 | $2.72 | -76% | $334K |
| Warehouse & Fulfillment | 18,305 | $33 | $7.64 | $1.31 | -77% | $465K |
| Trade & Customs | 13,428 | $11 | $4.68 | $1.19 | -57% | $84K |
| Supplier Collaboration | 14,439 | $19 | $4.77 | $0.62 | -75% | $207K |
| Order Promising | 5,643 | $42 | $13 | $2.72 | -70% | $166K |
| Network Design | 7,324 | $30 | $12 | $1.59 | -61% | $136K |
| Resilience & Risk | 10,925 | $38 | $15 | $3.40 | -61% | $257K |
| Total | 114,337 | $3.8M | $1.2M | $200K | -70% | $2.6M |
Inference is a variable cost that scales with volume, unlike the headcount it replaced. If volume doubles, the inference column doubles. That is the honest trade being made here.
Where the released capacity went
Capacity that is not redeployed is not a saving, it is a rounding error waiting to be re-hired.
Demand Planning
61.0 → 41.9 FTE
Redeployed into data stewardship and evidence quality.
Supply Planning
45.7 → 25.4 FTE
Redeployed into customer-facing escalation ownership.
Sales & Operations Planning
5.3 → 3.4 FTE
Redeployed into agent supervision, calibration and coaching.
Inventory Optimization
87.8 → 42.4 FTE
Redeployed into customer-facing escalation ownership.
Logistics & Transportation
86.7 → 41.9 FTE
Redeployed into cross-function process redesign.
Warehouse & Fulfillment
73.8 → 37.1 FTE
Redeployed into data stewardship and evidence quality.
Trade & Customs
69.7 → 47.2 FTE
Redeployed into data stewardship and evidence quality.
Supplier Collaboration
102.9 → 51.0 FTE
Redeployed into control design and independent testing.
Order Promising
30.5 → 21.3 FTE
Redeployed into cross-function process redesign.
Network Design
40.0 → 28.2 FTE
Redeployed into scenario work and strategy authoring review.
Resilience & Risk
78.4 → 55.3 FTE
Redeployed into data stewardship and evidence quality.