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End-to-end outcomes · one chain

OI-ITP-0044 — Invoice to pay

One invoice followed from a supplier invoice is received to the payment clears and reconciles against the bank statement, across every function and tower it touched.

Invoice to pay — all chains
State
Stalled
The chain had room left in the week and did not move.
Chain cycle
2.9 d
Wall clock, first stage start to last stage end
Of which waiting
35.9 h
52% of the chain was queue, not work
Cost to serve
$47.09
4 touches over 3 stages
A person intervened
1×
At one stage, marked below
Match confidence
0.62
Cohort

What this chain is, and how sure we are it is one chain

Identity, counterparty and the correlation key

The unit
Petronel Packaging
United Arab Emirates · Africa and Middle East · AED
Started Mon, Aug 10, 16:08, ended Thu, Aug 13, 13:48.
How the stages were joined
Cohort · 0.62
The chain crosses a boundary and no usable party join exists on either side.
A chain is only as sure as its weakest join, so the figure above is the minimum across the 2 joins below, not their average.
How much of the service ran
3 / 3
2 functions · 2 towers
Every stage the service defines was found for this unit.

The chain, stage by stage

3 stages · 35.9 h waiting · 33.8 h in work

01Invoice received
CG-S2P-004864Supplier invoiceap-automationProcurementS2P
The chain starts here.
In work
5.5 h
Touches
0
Handling
touchless
Join
Origin
On the document
$30,800
Handoff wait before this stage: 23.0 h — nothing was being done to the invoice for that time.
02Payment released
CG-S2P-003535Payment run itemtreasuryFinanceS2P
The document crosses from ap-automation into treasury, where no reference survives.
In work
2.6 h
Touches
0
Handling
touchless
Join
Inferred 0.76
On the document
$16,944
Handoff wait before this stage: 12.9 h — nothing was being done to the invoice for that time.
03Cash reconciled a person intervened
CG-R2R-005165Bank reconciliation itembank-gatewayFinanceR2RNils Andersenexception R2R-UNR
At least one side of this step records no party at all, so there is nothing to join on beyond place and timing.
In work
25.6 h
Touches
4
Handling
manual
Join
Cohort 0.62
On the document
$4,865
The amounts in the right-hand column are what each document carried, and they are deliberately not added up — the same money is written down once at each of the 3 stages this invoice passed through. This service counts value once, at invoice received, which puts $30,800 against this chain.

Where a person intervened

1 of 3 stages were not touchless

Cash reconciled
manual
Nils Andersen · Finance · Record-to-Report · 4 touches over 25.6 h · raised R2R-UNR
Across the 131 complete chains of this service the median is 1, so this one sits on the middle. A stage counts here when its handling is assisted or manual; touchless stages are excluded.

What the time and the money went on

The chain decomposed

Waiting
35.9 h
52% of elapsed time
In work
33.8 h
48% of elapsed time
Waiting and work are an exhaustive split of the 2.9 d this chain took — every hour is in one bucket or the other. The longest single wait was 23.0 h before payment released.
Cost to serve, $47.09
4 touches at 11 minutes of loaded time each$42.53
3 stages of inference and system cost$4.56
Cost to serve is modeled from the touches the ledger recorded, not billed from a timesheet.
1 stage raised an exception (R2R-UNR), and the chain was reworked once.

The same chain for the whole week, as a distribution

131 complete invoice to pay chains, 10–16 August 2026

this chain sits at the 29th percentile
2
12
19
32
26
22
14
2
1
1
23.5 hten equal bands of chain cycle time7.0 d
Median chain
3.4 d
p25 2.8 d · p75 4.2 d
Slowest tenth
4.7 d
worst seen 7.0 d
Median waiting
2.6 d
76% of the median chain is queue
Median cost
$15.19
p90 $57.73
The mean of 3.5 d sits above the median of 3.4 d, which is why the distribution is drawn rather than reported as an average: the gap between the median and the slowest tenth is 32.1 h, and it is that tail, not the average, that customers of this service actually feel. The commitment is 168 hours; no chain started early enough in a one-week window to be judged against it.
The ledger behind these chains is one week, 10 to 16 August 2026, which is 168 hours. A chain that had not finished when the week ended is open, not late: the week simply stopped watching it. A chain whose commitment falls after the end of the week could never have been seen to miss, so its service level reads not measurable rather than holding. Nothing on these pages should be read as a monthly or annual attainment. This chain both started and finished inside that week, so its cycle time is a measurement.