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
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.
| Gate | Trigger threshold | Approver | SLA | Waivable |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Weekly plan change above 10% Approval gate | Replanning that shifts more than 10% of a weekly production or replenishment plan | Planning lead | 4 hours | Hard stop |
Premium freight above $50,000 Approval gate | Any expedite decision above $50,000 | Logistics director | 2 hours | Hard stop |
Customer allocation decision Approval gate | Any allocation that reduces a committed customer quantity | CSCO with Sales | Same day | Hard stop |
Plan-stability monitor Oversight | Continuous check for order amplification and repeated replanning signatures | Supply Chain Chief of Staff | Continuous | Hard stop |
Decision ledger
Immutable record of what was decided, by whom, and how long it took.
- Notification
ETA updates issued to 214 customers
Auto-executedLowControl-Tower Communicator issued factual revised ETAs using approved templates. No commitment or goodwill language included.
Control-Tower Communicator · 9d 6h ago
- Escalation
Port closure recovery options presented
PendingHighDisruption Agent modeled three recovery paths for a 72-hour port closure affecting 41 shipments. Cost and service impact quantified for CSCO decision.
Chief Supply Chain Officer · 9d 7h ago
Requester can escalate only at this materiality - Oversight
Replanning loop halted on instability signature
ContainedMediumPlan-stability monitor detected four replans of the same node within six hours. Autonomous replenishment paused for that node pending planner review.
Supply Chain Chief of Staff · 9d 9h ago
- Approval gate
Premium freight above threshold
ApprovedHighLogistics Agent proposed $86,000 in premium freight to protect a committed launch date. Held for logistics-director approval with alternative options attached.
Logistics director · 9d 11h ago
Kill switches
Named, tested, and reachable in one click by the accountable human.
- Sensor or telemetry inconsistency
- Unstable repeated replanning (bullwhip signature)
- Unusual order amplification across nodes
- Safety-critical material movement without clearance
- Plan divergence from system of record
Human accountability
Cannot be delegated to an agent at any autonomy level.
- Network design and service policy
- Capacity commitments and plant shutdown
- Critical customer allocation
- Major rerouting and premium freight above threshold
- Safety decisions and geopolitical response
Signs for this function
Chief Supply Chain Officer