Sub-function
Logistics & Transportation
Owns shipment work end to end inside Supply Chain. Runs 3 lines across 17 stations, drains the repeatable share into the M2D tower, and holds 2 human gates.
Estate rating
A
77 / 100
Carrier selection, booking, tracking and freight audit are deterministic and high-volume. Only exceptions with cost impact above tolerance reach a person.
Agents
9
Lines
3
Units / wk
10,029
Timetable vs actual
12.1h → 13.1h
Cost / unit
$11
was $44
Run-rate saving
$17.3M
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.
Logistics Orchestrator
Owns the logistics & transportation 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, Logistics when the unit falls outside the decision envelope or confidence drops below the floor.
Carrier Selection Agent
Runs the repeatable portion of logistics & transportation inside the shared transaction spine at spine cost and spine controls.
ceiling A4 · escalates to Escalates to Director, Logistics when the unit falls outside the decision envelope or confidence drops below the floor.
Shipment Tracking Agent
Runs the repeatable portion of logistics & transportation inside the shared transaction spine at spine cost and spine controls.
ceiling A4 · escalates to Escalates to Director, Logistics when the unit falls outside the decision envelope or confidence drops below the floor.
Emissions Agent
Runs the repeatable portion of logistics & transportation inside the shared transaction spine at spine cost and spine controls.
ceiling A4 · escalates to Escalates to Director, Logistics when the unit falls outside the decision envelope or confidence drops below the floor.
Route Optimization Agent
Executes the logistics & transportation step it owns, posts its evidence, and hands the unit to the next stage.
ceiling A4 · escalates to Escalates to Director, Logistics when the unit falls outside the decision envelope or confidence drops below the floor.
Exception Recovery Agent
Executes the logistics & transportation step it owns, posts its evidence, and hands the unit to the next stage.
ceiling A4 · escalates to Escalates to Director, Logistics when the unit falls outside the decision envelope or confidence drops below the floor.
Carrier Performance Agent
Executes the logistics & transportation step it owns, posts its evidence, and hands the unit to the next stage.
ceiling A4 · escalates to Escalates to Director, Logistics when the unit falls outside the decision envelope or confidence drops below the floor.
Freight Audit Agent
Watches logistics & transportation continuously. Detects drift, quantifies it, and routes what matters without waiting for a reporting cycle.
ceiling A4 · escalates to Escalates to Director, Logistics when the unit falls outside the decision envelope or confidence drops below the floor.
Logistics & Transportation Challenger Agent
Adversarial reviewer for logistics & transportation. 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.
Redeployed into cross-function process redesign.
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.
Logistics & Transportation Operating Position
In challengev1What operating shape carries twice the current shipment volume without adding headcount, and what breaks first if we are wrong?
Hold the ceiling at A4 for logistics & transportation. Carrier selection, booking, tracking and freight audit are deterministic and high-volume. Only exceptions with cost impact above tolerance reach a person. Raise it only after two consecutive quarters where the override rate stays under five percent and every override has a written cause.
confidence
61%
The challenge — Logistics & Transportation Challenger Agent
Logistics & Transportation Challenger Agent argues the recommendation leans on 4 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 9 percent for two consecutive months
- ·Cost per shipment 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 | $471k run rate | Known and priced. Cedes ground if comparators move faster. | live |
| Raise the ceiling one level now | $412k to build controls | Override rate is 8 percent; raising the ceiling before that settles imports the error into production. | rejected on evidence |
| Move the exception tail to the spine | $518k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SC5-POL-200 | Logistics & Transportation Decision Envelope Agents in this lane may act without a human when the shipment 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 · Global | envelope | Logistics Orchestrator | Director, Logistics | v3.6 | Active |
| SC5-POL-201 | Logistics & Transportation 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 | evidence | Logistics Orchestrator | Director, Logistics | v1.0 | Active |
| SC5-POL-202 | Logistics & Transportation 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, Logistics owns the response clock. binds 6 agents · Global | escalation | Logistics Orchestrator | Director, Logistics | v2.9 | Active |