New: what governed autonomous procurement actually means
Assessment

Which procurement workflow should you govern first?

In short

Rate eleven dimensions of your procurement operation against what actually happens rather than what the process document says. The result gives you a transparent score, a description of the stage you are at, and the three workflows most likely to be worth changing first. Nothing is submitted and no email address is required.

Answer honestly — the value is in the low scores

Employees raise procurement needs through one governed route rather than by email.

1 of 11 · Intake

Employees raise procurement needs through one governed route rather than by email.

Sourcing events run from reusable templates with eligibility applied automatically.

2 of 11 · Sourcing

Sourcing events run from reusable templates with eligibility applied automatically.

Contracts start from approved templates and their obligations are tracked with named owners.

3 of 11 · Contracts

Contracts start from approved templates and their obligations are tracked with named owners.

Approved outcomes reach the ERP without a buyer re-entering them.

4 of 11 · Purchasing

Approved outcomes reach the ERP without a buyer re-entering them.

Supplier onboarding, documents and performance run as one governed process with one record.

5 of 11 · Suppliers

Supplier onboarding, documents and performance run as one governed process with one record.

Corrective actions carry required evidence, scheduled follow-up and a recorded closure decision.

6 of 11 · Supplier quality

Corrective actions carry required evidence, scheduled follow-up and a recorded closure decision.

Approval thresholds and buying rules execute automatically rather than being applied by people.

7 of 11 · Governance

Approval thresholds and buying rules execute automatically rather than being applied by people.

Procurement decisions flow into the ERP automatically, with failures surfaced as exceptions.

8 of 11 · ERP integration

Procurement decisions flow into the ERP automatically, with failures surfaced as exceptions.

Spend is classified and visible across entities without a manual consolidation exercise.

9 of 11 · Data

Spend is classified and visible across entities without a manual consolidation exercise.

Group policy applies everywhere while entity and plant rules are configured rather than improvised.

10 of 11 · Multi-entity complexity

Group policy applies everywhere while entity and plant rules are configured rather than improvised.

You could describe precisely what software would be permitted to do, and who approves the rest.

11 of 11 · AI readiness

You could describe precisely what software would be permitted to do, and who approves the rest.

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Email yourself your maturity result

Nothing is stored until you ask for it. We will send your figures over — useful when you are writing the board paper a fortnight later.

No sequence. No sales call unless you ask for one.

Questions people ask. While the numbers are on screen.

About four minutes. Eleven statements, no email required, and the result appears in your browser without anything being submitted.

Honestly, and about how things actually work rather than how the process document describes them. The value is entirely in the low scores, because those identify where to start.

A maturity band, and the three workflows most likely to be worth governing first. It is a prioritisation aid rather than a diagnosis.

No. The assessment runs entirely in your browser and nothing is submitted. Emailing yourself the result is optional and offered only after the result is shown.

The average matters less than the spread

A team scoring 3.0 evenly across every dimension has a different problem from one scoring 4.5 on purchasing and 1.5 on supplier governance.

An even, low score

Coordination is manual across the board. Governing intake usually produces the fastest visible change, because it touches every function and improves everything downstream.

Strong purchasing, weak sourcing

The transactional end is under control and the commercial end is not. Sourcing coverage is normally the constraint, limited by setup and coordination effort rather than by judgement.

Strong process, weak governance

The steps exist but the rules are applied by people. Making the existing approval matrix executable is usually a short piece of configuration with a disproportionate effect.

Strong everywhere except AI readiness

The operation is well run but nobody has written down what software would be permitted to do. That definition is the prerequisite, and it is a governance exercise rather than a technical one.

Bring your lowest-scoring workflow to a demonstration.

The assessment points at a starting workflow. Watching that workflow run under governance is what tells you whether the approach fits.

Someone from client success replies, not a sales sequence. If we are not a fit we will say so on the first call.