Processes

What will AGI do for Procure materials and services?

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With no child occupations seeded, the scalar relies on the top-level category lens and the process description. The work entirely consists of information-transformation and communication tasks—creating procurement plans, developing sourcing strategies, drafting contracts, and processing orders—which are inherently digital, knowledge-based activities.

A business unit submits a purchase requisition or a strategic planning cycle identifies a need for external materials and services.

Trigger: A business unit submits a purchase requisition or a strategic planning cycle identifies a need for external materials and services.
Outcome: Required goods and services are delivered to the business unit, and ongoing supplier contracts are established and monitored.

The work itself

Grounded Work Profile

Measured by

Spend Under ManagementprocessProfile
Procurement Cycle TimeprocessProfile
Supplier On-Time Delivery RateprocessProfile
Cost Savings RealizedprocessProfile

Key steps

Formulate procurement plan and sourcing strategyprocessProfile
Evaluate and select appropriate suppliersprocessProfile
Negotiate and execute supplier contractsprocessProfile
Issue purchase orders for required materials and servicesprocessProfile
Receive goods and verify service deliveryprocessProfile
Evaluate ongoing supplier performanceprocessProfile

How AGI delivers it

Four ways AGI delivers for Procure materials and services

Services-as-Software
Get the professional outcome delivered as software, priced on results, not headcount.
Services.do
Autonomous Agents as digital employees
Hire a digital employee that does the job under earned, supervised autonomy.
Agents.do
Business-as-Code
Encode how your work runs, once, as software that executes itself.
Platform.do

Value flow

How Procure materials and services connects

automated by

Generate Purchase Ordermodel
Match Invoice to Receiptmodel
Route Requisition for Approvalmodel
Source to Pay Platformmodel
Vendor Management Systemmodel

measured by

Number of FTEs that perform the process "develop sourcing strategies" as a percentage of process group "procure materials and services" FTEsstandard
Number of FTEs that perform the process "develop sourcing strategies" per $1 billion purchasesstandard
Number of FTEs that perform the process "develop sourcing strategies" per $1 billion revenuestandard
Number of FTEs that perform the process "manage suppliers" as a percentage of process group "procure materials and services" FTEsstandard
Number of FTEs that perform the process "manage suppliers" per $1 billion purchasesstandard
Number of FTEs that perform the process "manage suppliers" per $1 billion revenuestandard
Number of FTEs that perform the process "order materials and services" as a percentage of procurement process group FTEsstandard
Number of FTEs that perform the process "order materials and services" per $1 billion purchasesstandard
Number of FTEs that perform the process "order materials and services" per $1 billion revenuestandard
Number of FTEs that perform the process "select suppliers and develop%2Fmaintain contracts" as a percentage of procurement process group FTEsstandard
Number of FTEs that perform the process "select suppliers and develop%2Fmaintain contracts" per $1 billion purchasesstandard
Number of FTEs that perform the process "select suppliers and develop%2Fmaintain contracts" per $1 billion revenuestandard
Number of FTEs that perform the process group "procure materials and services" for direct materials and services per $1 billion revenuestandard
Number of FTEs that perform the process group "procure materials and services" for indirect materials and services per $1 billion revenuestandard
Number of FTEs that perform the process group "procure materials and services" per $1 billion purchasesstandard
Number of FTEs that perform the process group "procure materials and services" per $1 billion revenuestandard
Number of active suppliers in vendor master file per procurement process group FTEstandard
Number of business entity employees per FTE that performs the process group "procure materials and services"standard
Number of goods receipts received per FTE that performs the process "manage suppliers"standard
Number of goods receipts received per FTE that performs the process group "procure materials and services"standard
Number of items received by the business entity per FTE that performs the process group "procure materials and services"standard
Number of purchase order line items processed per FTE that performs the process "order materials and services"standard
Number of purchase orders processed per FTE that performs the process group "procure materials and services"standard
Number of purchase requisition line items processed per "order materials%2Fservices" FTEstandard
Other cost to perform the process group "procure materials and services" as a percentage of total process group coststandard
Other cost to perform the process group "procure materials and services" per $1 billion purchasesstandard
Other cost to perform the procurement process group per $1,000 revenuestandard
Other cost to perform the procurement process group per procurement process group FTEstandard
Outsourced cost to perform the process group "procure materials and services" as a percentage of total process group coststandard
Outsourced cost to perform the procurement process group per $1,000 revenuestandard
Outsourced cost to perform the procurement process group per $1 billion purchasesstandard
Overhead cost to perform the process group "procure materials and services" as a percentage of total process group coststandard
Overhead cost to perform the process group "procure materials and services" per process group FTEstandard
Overhead cost to perform the procurement process group per $1,000 revenuestandard
Overhead cost to perform the procurement process group per $1 billion purchasesstandard
Personnel cost to perform the process group "procure materials and services" as a percentage of total process group coststandard
Personnel cost to perform the process group "procure materials and services" per $1,000 revenuestandard
Personnel cost to perform the process group "procure materials and services" per $1 billion purchasesstandard
Personnel cost to perform the process group "procure materials and services" per process group FTEstandard
Systems cost to perform the procurement process group per $100,000 revenuestandard
Systems cost to perform the procurement process group per $1 billion purchasesstandard
Systems cost to perform the procurement process group per process group FTEstandard
Total cost to perform the process "develop sourcing strategies" as a percentage of process group "procure materials and services" total coststandard
Total cost to perform the process "develop sourcing strategies" per $1,000 purchasesstandard
Total cost to perform the process "develop sourcing strategies" per $1,000 revenuestandard
Total cost to perform the process "develop sourcing strategies" per process FTEstandard
Total cost to perform the process "manage suppliers" as a percentage of process group "procure materials and services" total coststandard
Total cost to perform the process "manage suppliers" per $1,000 purchasesstandard
Total cost to perform the process "manage suppliers" per $1,000 revenuestandard
Total cost to perform the process "manage suppliers" per goods receipt receivedstandard
Total cost to perform the process "manage suppliers" per process FTEstandard
Total cost to perform the process "order materials and services" as a percentage of total procurement process group coststandard
Total cost to perform the process "order materials and services" per $1,000 purchasesstandard
Total cost to perform the process "select suppliers and develop%2Fmaintain contracts" as a percentage of total procurement process group coststandard
Total cost to perform the process "select suppliers and develop%2Fmaintain contracts" per $1,000 purchasesstandard

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