What is automated, where AI helps, who signs off
Automation for the routine. A person on every decision that matters.
The reliable spine
The reliable spine is the deterministic sweep: POs, GRNs, invoices, rate cards and freight bills matched line by line to surface price drift, duplicate payments, missed rebates, freight over the rate card and under-recovered tooling cost, each with an auditable trail.
Where AI helps
AI is limited to reading the source documents into structured rows and matching records that refer to the same transaction; the recovery figure stays a deterministic, evidence-backed number a person acts on.
Who signs off
A named person signs off anything touching money, stock, a customer promise, a regulated filing, a payment, a price, a credit decision or a people decision.