Use case · Supply chain/PRC
Buying, without the chasing that surrounds it.
Sourcing prepared, orders chased, price drift flagged. The buyer decides; the chasing is done.
Sourcing prepared·Orders chased·Price movement watched
Every order, chased to the door
Request
RFQ
Order
Receipt
Invoice
Late. Supplier chased, buyer told
ILLUSTRATIVE · NOT REAL FIGURES
The buyer's day/01
Mostly not buying.
Try it/02
Catch the drift.
Flagged from order 5: 4 of 8 orders are over tolerance. The buyer sees it before the next order, not after the invoice.
ILLUSTRATIVE · NOT REAL FIGURES
The limits/03
What the agent may and may not do.
May read
Requests, RFQs, quotations, orders, receipts, invoices, and price lists
May do
Raise requests, prepare RFQs, assemble comparisons, chase suppliers, and propose matches
May not do
Award a contract, commit spend above its ceiling, or approve its own request
Ceilings
A value limit per order, per period, and per supplier
Escalation
Above the ceiling it routes to a named buyer, with the comparison attached
Outbound
Supplier contact is drafted for approval where you set it to be
Trail
Every message and decision recorded on the order it concerned
Measure it/04
How to tell it worked.
Runs on/05
The modules it spans.
Next to this/06
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