Connect · item 15

Data quality gates at intake

Bad data does not become less expensive further down the line. Sixteen checks sit at the first station of every line, covering completeness, validity, duplication, referential integrity, timeliness and consistency. A unit that fails is blocked outright or held in a quarantine queue with a named owner — never quietly waved through with a flag nobody reads.

Connector registry

Health

What the rules are catching

Active and monitoring rules, and everything they have held, released or rejected.

Gates at intake

14 enforcing · 2 monitoring only

Checks run

203,658

Across the whole estate at first station

Pass rate

99.6%

767 checks failed

Held right now

of 171 items ever quarantined

Held over 72 hours

Oldest is 9.1 days old

Rejected at intake

47 released after review

What the gates test for

Six dimensions. A check that has never fired is shown as never having fired, not as evidence of a clean estate.

Completeness4 gates · 53,176 checks · 175 failed · 99.7% pass

Validity3 gates · 42,810 checks · 108 failed · 99.7% pass

Duplication2 gates · 17,406 checks · 87 failed · 99.5% pass

Referential5 gates · 74,103 checks · 320 failed · 99.6% pass

Timeliness1 gate · 945 checks · 15 failed · 98.4% pass

Consistency1 gate · 15,218 checks · 62 failed · 99.6% pass

What happens on failure

The action is stated on the gate, not decided later.

Block4 gates

The unit never enters the line.

Quarantine8 gates

Held at intake for a named owner to clear.

Warn4 gates

Enters the line carrying a flag that travels with it.

Gates that have never fired

Reported as a zero, not as a pass.

1 of 16 gates have run without a single failure. That is either a genuinely clean condition or a check that is not reaching the data it was written for. It is listed here so somebody has to decide which.

DQ-16Research payload provenance recorded9,928 run

The gates

Each names the dimension it tests, the expression it evaluates, what happens when it fails, and who owns the failures.

All 16 Completeness Validity Duplication Referential Timeliness Consistency

Gate	Dimension	Applies to	Expression	On failure	Run	Failed	Pass	Held	Owner
DQ-02 Supplier exists and is not blocked Critical	Referential	Source-to-pay intake function Source-to-Pay Suite	supplier identifier resolves to an active, non-blocked record in the source-to-pay suite	Block threshold 100%	8,379	44	99.5%	9	K. Boateng
DQ-05 Cost center is open in the period High	Referential	Anything that will post to the ledger all-lines Planning and Consolidation	cost center exists in planning and is open for the posting period	Quarantine threshold 99.5%	15,036	62	99.6%	6	D. Halvorsen
DQ-06 Purchase order is open and has remaining value Critical	Referential	Three-way match intake function Group ERP — Materials and Inventory	referenced purchase order exists in materials management, is open, and remaining value covers the invoice	Quarantine threshold 99%	19,227	100	99.5%	8	K. Boateng
DQ-08 Worker record active at the effective date Critical	Referential	Hire-to-retire intake function Core HR and Payroll	the worker referenced holds an active record in core human resources on the effective date of the change	Block threshold 100%	18,379	75	99.6%	7	S. Bergqvist
DQ-11 Contract reference resolves to an executed agreement High	Referential	Legal, procurement and sales intake all-lines Contract Lifecycle Management	the contract identifier resolves to an executed, in-term agreement in contract lifecycle management	Quarantine threshold 99%	13,082	39	99.7%	5	V. Marchetti

Quarantine queue

14 items match the current filter. Every held item has an owner and an age.

All 171 Held · 67 In review · 28 Released · 47 Rejected at intake · 29 Gate DQ-06 — clear

Item	Function · line	Gate	Field	Observed	Expected	Source	Age	Status	Owner	Outcome
PR3A-1055 Sourcing event at build longlist DQ-06-Q-007	Procurement & Source-to-Pay PR3A	DQ-06	referenced purchase order exists	no matching record	referenced purchase order exists in materials management, is open, and remaining value covers the invoice	Group ERP — Materials and Inventory	8.8 days	In review	K. Boateng	—
PR3A-1035 Sourcing event at shortlist DQ-06-Q-003	Procurement & Source-to-Pay PR3A	DQ-06	referenced purchase order exists	no matching record	referenced purchase order exists in materials management, is open, and remaining value covers the invoice	Group ERP — Materials and Inventory	8.8 days	Held	K. Boateng	—
PR7C-1019 Supplier review at transition plan DQ-06-Q-001	Procurement & Source-to-Pay PR7C	DQ-06	referenced purchase order exists	no matching record	referenced purchase order exists in materials management, is open, and remaining value covers the invoice	Group ERP — Materials and Inventory	7.7 days	Rejected at intake	K. Boateng	Rejected at intake. The unit never entered the line and the requester was told why.
PR8B-1026 Requisition at classify DQ-06-Q-011	Procurement & Source-to-Pay PR8B	DQ-06	referenced purchase order exists	no matching record	referenced purchase order exists in materials management, is open, and remaining value covers the invoice	Group ERP — Materials and Inventory	7.3 days	In review	K. Boateng	—
PR2B-1026 Spend line at notify requester DQ-06-Q-014	Procurement & Source-to-Pay PR2B	DQ-06	referenced purchase order exists	no matching record	referenced purchase order exists in materials management, is open, and remaining value covers the invoice	Group ERP — Materials and Inventory	6.5 days	In review	K. Boateng	—
PR11C-1014 Savings claim at reconcile to budget DQ-06-Q-013	Procurement & Source-to-Pay PR11C	DQ-06	referenced purchase order exists	no matching record	referenced purchase order exists in materials management, is open, and remaining value covers the invoice	Group ERP — Materials and Inventory	4.0 days	In review	K. Boateng	—
PR8B-1037 Requisition at request DQ-06-Q-006	Procurement & Source-to-Pay PR8B	DQ-06	referenced purchase order exists	no matching record	referenced purchase order exists in materials management, is open, and remaining value covers the invoice	Group ERP — Materials and Inventory	3.0 days	Released	K. Boateng	Corrected at source and released back onto the line with the correction recorded.
PR2C-1021 Spend line at size opportunities DQ-06-Q-005	Procurement & Source-to-Pay PR2C	DQ-06	referenced purchase order exists	no matching record	referenced purchase order exists in materials management, is open, and remaining value covers the invoice	Group ERP — Materials and Inventory	2.8 days	Rejected at intake	K. Boateng	Rejected at intake. The unit never entered the line and the requester was told why.
PR5C-1021 Supplier contract at assess value DQ-06-Q-010	Procurement & Source-to-Pay PR5C	DQ-06	referenced purchase order exists	no matching record	referenced purchase order exists in materials management, is open, and remaining value covers the invoice	Group ERP — Materials and Inventory	2.8 days	Released	K. Boateng	Corrected at source and released back onto the line with the correction recorded.
PR9C-1024 Invoice at post DQ-06-Q-009	Procurement & Source-to-Pay PR9C	DQ-06	referenced purchase order exists	no matching record	referenced purchase order exists in materials management, is open, and remaining value covers the invoice	Group ERP — Materials and Inventory	31 hr	Held	K. Boateng	—
PR5C-1003 Supplier contract at assess value DQ-06-Q-008	Procurement & Source-to-Pay PR5C	DQ-06	referenced purchase order exists	no matching record	referenced purchase order exists in materials management, is open, and remaining value covers the invoice	Group ERP — Materials and Inventory	26 hr	Released	K. Boateng	Corrected at source and released back onto the line with the correction recorded.
PR7C-1019 Supplier review at transition plan DQ-06-Q-004	Procurement & Source-to-Pay PR7C	DQ-06	referenced purchase order exists	no matching record	referenced purchase order exists in materials management, is open, and remaining value covers the invoice	Group ERP — Materials and Inventory	15 hr	Released	K. Boateng	Corrected at source and released back onto the line with the correction recorded.
PR5A-1014 Supplier contract at load obligations DQ-06-Q-002	Procurement & Source-to-Pay PR5A	DQ-06	referenced purchase order exists	no matching record	referenced purchase order exists in materials management, is open, and remaining value covers the invoice	Group ERP — Materials and Inventory	9 hr	Held	K. Boateng	—
PR11B-1020 Savings claim at flag variance DQ-06-Q-012	Procurement & Source-to-Pay PR11B	DQ-06	referenced purchase order exists	no matching record	referenced purchase order exists in materials management, is open, and remaining value covers the invoice	Group ERP — Materials and Inventory	4 hr	Held	K. Boateng	—

Which lines carry the intake burden

Quarantine volume by function, all time.

Procurement & Source-to-Pay57

Information Technology26

Human Resources22

Supply Chain13

Marketing8

AI GBS & Global Business Services8

Finance7

Administration7

Legal5

Revenue Operations4

Sales4

Customer Service4

Engineering3

Research & Development3

Actions

What is waiting on a person

Quarantine is a holding pen, not a decision. Every item below is work that stopped and is waiting for somebody to say what happens to it.

Judge a quarantined item

Held by a rule. Nobody has looked at it yet.

Fix the source behind a rejection

Rejected items keep arriving until the upstream cause changes.

Finish a review already open

Picked up, not concluded.

Promote a monitoring rule to active

The rule watches and reports but does not hold anything.

Operations

What this desk is allowed to start

A surface that only reports is not operable. This is the work this page can set in motion, and the bound it runs into.

Trigger and bound

This desk can start a rule run across a named batch, and it can move an item into quarantine. It cannot release an item, reject one, or change a threshold — releasing bad data is the whole risk this layer exists to manage, so it stays with a person.

Live observability

What the record shows right now

What happened to everything the rules have held.

Current distribution

171 items

Released4727%

In review2816%

Quarantined6739%

Rejected2917%

Is policy and strategy coming to fruition

Whether the written intent is holding here

14 of 16 rules are enforcing. 95 items are held and undecided.

Not holding on the record

The written intent is that no unchecked record reaches a downstream figure. 14 rules enforce that today and 2 only watch. The queue is the real test: 67 items are held with nobody assigned and 28 are open with somebody assigned, against 47 released and 29 rejected historically. A held item is not a failure of the rule — it is the rule working — but a held item nobody judges is a figure quietly missing its input.

What this page is, and what it is not

The gates, the expressions, the thresholds and the quarantine queue are real mechanisms. They run at the first station of every line and they hold work that fails. What they run against is the modeled feed described on the connector registry — connect a customer instance and the same gates run unchanged against real intake.

2 of the 16 gates are set to monitor rather than enforce. They are counted in the check totals but they stop nothing. That is a deliberate state for a gate whose false-positive rate has not yet been characterized, and it is shown rather than hidden behind an overall pass rate.

62 items have been held for more than seventy-two hours, the oldest for 9.1 days. A quarantine queue that ages without clearing is a queue that people have learned to route around, so the age is shown on every row and never averaged away.