Sub-function
Supply Planning
Owns supply plan work end to end inside Supply Chain. Runs 3 lines across 17 stations, drains the repeatable share into the M2D tower, and holds 3 human gates.
Estate rating
BBB
74 / 100
Requirements planning and in-policy expedites are automated. Allocating scarce supply between customers is a commercial judgment a leader owns.
Agents
9
Lines
3
Units / wk
15,564
Timetable vs actual
16.1h → 19.4h
Cost / unit
$17
was $47
Run-rate saving
$24.4M
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.
Supply Planning Orchestrator
Owns the supply planning lane end to end. Sequences the other agents, holds the timetable, and decides what surfaces to a human.
ceiling A3 · escalates to Escalates to Director, Supply Planning when the unit falls outside the decision envelope or confidence drops below the floor.
Capacity Balancing Agent
Runs the repeatable portion of supply planning inside the shared transaction spine at spine cost and spine controls.
ceiling A3 · escalates to Escalates to Director, Supply Planning when the unit falls outside the decision envelope or confidence drops below the floor.
Supplier Commit Agent
Runs the repeatable portion of supply planning inside the shared transaction spine at spine cost and spine controls.
ceiling A3 · escalates to Escalates to Director, Supply Planning when the unit falls outside the decision envelope or confidence drops below the floor.
Constraint Detection Agent
Watches supply planning continuously. Detects drift, quantifies it, and routes what matters without waiting for a reporting cycle.
ceiling A3 · escalates to Escalates to Director, Supply Planning when the unit falls outside the decision envelope or confidence drops below the floor.
Material Requirements Agent
Executes the supply planning step it owns, posts its evidence, and hands the unit to the next stage.
ceiling A3 · escalates to Escalates to Director, Supply Planning when the unit falls outside the decision envelope or confidence drops below the floor.
Expedite Agent
Executes the supply planning step it owns, posts its evidence, and hands the unit to the next stage.
ceiling A3 · escalates to Escalates to Director, Supply Planning when the unit falls outside the decision envelope or confidence drops below the floor.
Allocation Agent
Executes the supply planning step it owns, posts its evidence, and hands the unit to the next stage.
ceiling A3 · escalates to Escalates to Director, Supply Planning when the unit falls outside the decision envelope or confidence drops below the floor.
Supply Policy Agent
Holds the rules that bind every other agent in supply planning. Versions them, tests them against live decisions, and blocks work that breaches them.
ceiling A3 · escalates to Escalates on any decision that would breach a live policy version, with the clause cited.
Supply Planning Challenger Agent
Adversarial reviewer for supply planning. Argues the opposite case on every position and flags where the evidence does not carry the claim.
ceiling A3 · 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 customer-facing escalation ownership.
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.
Supply Planning Operating Position
Rejectedv1What operating shape carries twice the current supply plan volume without adding headcount, and what breaks first if we are wrong?
Hold the ceiling at A3 for supply planning. Requirements planning and in-policy expedites are automated. Allocating scarce supply between customers is a commercial judgment a leader owns. Raise it only after two consecutive quarters where the override rate stays under five percent and every override has a written cause.
confidence
73%
The challenge — Supply Planning Challenger Agent
Supply Planning 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 14 percent for two consecutive months
- ·Cost per supply plan stops falling while volume keeps rising
- ·A control failure in this lane reaches a customer or a regulator
Evidence gaps
- ·No external comparator on a like-for-like unit definition
- ·Exception cases under $44k are sampled, not fully measured
| Alternative considered | Cost | Risk | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hold the current position | $335k run rate | Known and priced. Cedes ground if comparators move faster. | live |
| Raise the ceiling one level now | $399k 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 | $700k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SC2-POL-200 | Supply Planning Decision Envelope Agents in this lane may act without a human when the supply plan 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 5 agents · US · Canada | envelope | Supply Policy Agent | Director, Supply Planning | v3.0 | Active |
| SC2-POL-201 | Supply Planning 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 5 agents · Global | evidence | Supply Policy Agent | Director, Supply Planning | v3.9 | Active |
| SC2-POL-202 | Supply Planning 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, Supply Planning owns the response clock. binds 5 agents · US · Canada | escalation | Supply Policy Agent | Director, Supply Planning | v5.2 | Active |