LensReading which lens this session carries.

AI GBS tower · S2P

Source-to-Pay Tower

Requisition through payment: purchase orders, receipting, invoice capture, three-way match, supplier master and the payment run.

fed by Procurement · Admin · AI GBS

Tx / week

142,093

Touchless

80%

Cost / tx

$8.06

was $26.34

Saving / yr

$135.1M

at current volume

Health

Is this tower holding

Four readings with a printed rule behind each. Attainment is only a commitment where a signed service level sits behind it.

SLA attainment

93%

below the 95% floor

Signed commitments

3

attainment has a counterparty and a penalty

Feeder base

3 functions

broad enough that unit cost is not hostage to one feeder

Governed feeder work

8 of 16

the rest run under a general standard, not a versioned rule

Operations

What the tower is running

The queues on the floor right now, where the money goes once inference is separated out, and the lanes carrying work in.

Queues running now

Work waiting inside the tower, and whether each queue is still inside its service window.

Straight through
116,516in window
Evidence posted for review
581in window
Human hold
198at risk
Exception aged over 48h
12breached
SLA attainment93%

Cost to serve, after inference

The tower's unit cost is stated with model spend inside it, not alongside it.

Before

$26.34

per transaction, prior operating model

Now

$8.06

per transaction, all-in

Inference component

$1.62

20% of the current unit cost

Headcount before

522 FTE

Headcount now

307 FTE

Weekly cost avoided

$2.6M

volume held constant

Lanes into this tower

Every function line that pushes volume into the shared spine, with its own touchless rate and unit cost.

FunctionSub-functionLineTx / wkTouchlessCost / tx
Procurement & Source-to-PayRequisition & POPR8A7,75888%$3.68
Procurement & Source-to-PayRequisition & POPR8B7,32785%$3.68
AdministrationCorporate ServicesAD10A7,06281%$8.18
Procurement & Source-to-PaySpend AnalyticsPR2B7,02197%$11.33
AI GBS & Global Business ServicesS2P Control TowerGB2C6,88395%$7.48
AdministrationFacilities & WorkplaceAD1A6,70380%$8.41
Procurement & Source-to-PaySourcing & RFxPR3B6,60184%$10.17
Procurement & Source-to-PaySupplier OnboardingPR6C6,57277%$9.88
AdministrationMeetings & EventsAD5B6,26875%$12.15
Procurement & Source-to-PaySupplier OnboardingPR6A6,19083%$9.88
AI GBS & Global Business ServicesS2P Control TowerGB2B6,07297%$7.48
AdministrationHospitality & ReceptionAD11A5,80683%$10.30
AdministrationTravel & ExpenseAD3B5,73286%$4.50
AdministrationFleet & AssetsAD7C5,68585%$10.74
Procurement & Source-to-PayInvoice & Three-Way MatchPR9B5,43989%$2.23
Procurement & Source-to-PayInvoice & Three-Way MatchPR9C5,30395%$2.23
Procurement & Source-to-PayPayment InterlockPR10B4,75380%$11.90
AI GBS & Global Business ServicesS2P Control TowerGB2D4,71996%$7.48
Procurement & Source-to-PayRequisition & POPR8C4,57185%$3.68
Procurement & Source-to-PayInvoice & Three-Way MatchPR9A4,51297%$2.23
Procurement & Source-to-PaySavings AssurancePR11A3,86884%$10.68
AdministrationMeetings & EventsAD5A3,60577%$12.15
AdministrationFacilities & WorkplaceAD1B3,42679%$8.41
Procurement & Source-to-PaySupplier Performance & RiskPR7B3,37585%$2.58

Actions

What this tower is asking a person to do

Ordered by size. Each figure is a live count from this tower's own queue and breach records.

Live observability

The commitments behind the number, and every miss against them

A tower dashboard that shows only attainment is a marketing surface. This is the signed commitment, who it was made to, what a miss costs, and every miss on record.

Signed service levels

3 commitments with a named counterparty

Source-to-Pay invoice cycle timetarget 26 hrs · attainment 96.3%

committed to Procurement, Finance, Supply Chain, Administration · breached

A miss returns 5% of the monthly tower charge to each receiving function, apportioned by transaction share.

Source-to-Pay touchless ratetarget 88% · attainment 97.5%

committed to Procurement · breached

Three percent of the quarterly tower fee is at risk against this level. It is the only commitment on the estate where the provider can lose fee rather than return a credit.

Source-to-Pay escalation responsetarget 45 min · attainment 98.1%

committed to Procurement, Finance · attained

Two percent of the monthly charge where the monthly median response exceeds the level.

Misses on record

2 breaches · 0 still open

BRC-0007closed

A supplier master update introduced duplicate records. The quality gate caught them, and the resolution path had no owner.

missed by 4.2% · 337 units · data-quality · Morgan Idris

BRC-0006closed

Intake quarantine held 340 items over the weekend because the release decision needs a named human and none was rostered.

missed by 8.7% · 2,086 units · data-quality

Is policy and strategy coming to fruition

Does the intent above this tower reach the transactions inside it

A tower executes; it does not decide. Counted per feeder sub-function, where each step only counts if the step before it did.

Governance chain on the feeder base

8 of 16 feeder sub-functions carry the full chain

Ratified position

8

a stance the leadership signed, not a draft

…and an active policy

8

a rule in force, with a version and an approver

…reaching a live workflow

8

the rule reaches something that actually runs

8 of the 16 feeder sub-functions routing work into this tower are executing at volume without the full chain behind them. They are held to a general standard rather than a rule with a version and an approver.

What this page is, and what it is not

Every reading is computed live from this tower's own records, which makes it exact and makes it narrow. Volumes, unit costs and attainment are modeled: none has been reconciled against an enterprise resource planning system, a payroll register or a service management tool. Attainment without a signed service level beside it is an internal reading, and this page labels it as one rather than presenting it as a commitment.