AonX Helm · End-to-end value chain governance
Govern your spend,
supply and systems as one value chain.
AonX Helm is the governance layer over your whole value chain, plan to pay. Every control you want at every stage, measured on dials your CFO, your CPO or CSCO, and your CTO each own — advised or acted on at the authority you set, with governance visibility that improves in real time.
Your value chain runs across many systems. Helm governs the whole of it.
Your ERP, sourcing suite, planning tools and ledgers each keep their own records and their own rules. Helm reads every system's line against every other system's rule — so a price, a supplier, a delivery or a payment is checked against everything it touches, at the moment it matters.
One layer above every system, reading each line against the rules held elsewhere.
Contract value ↔ approved budget
reads 2 · Sourcing and contracts ↔ 1 · Planning and budgets
Price on the order ↔ rate in the contract
reads 3 · ERP ↔ 2 · Sourcing and contracts
Supplier on the order ↔ approved, qualified supplier
reads 3 · ERP ↔ 4 · Supplier records
Supplier bank details on payment ↔ verified supplier record
reads 5 · Ledger and payments ↔ 4 · Supplier records
Amount paid ↔ quantity received and price agreed
reads 5 · Ledger and payments ↔ 3 · ERP
Planning and budgets
Demand plans, budgets, cost centres
Budget owner · spend limit per cost centre
such as Anaplan, SAP BPC
Keeps its own records and rules
Sourcing and contracts
Contracts, rate cards, awards
Contracted price · validity dates · volume tiers
such as SAP Ariba, Coupa
Keeps its own records and rules
ERP — orders and receipts
Purchase orders, goods receipts, inventory
Approval limits · receipt tolerances
such as SAP S/4HANA, Oracle
Keeps its own records and rules
Supplier records
Vendor master, qualification, risk ratings
Approved list · certifications · bank details verified
such as SAP vendor master, supplier portal
Keeps its own records and rules
Ledger and payments
Invoices, payments, tax
Three-way match · payment terms · tax credit
such as SAP FI, Tally
Keeps its own records and rules
One value chain. Threefacets, governed together
Spend
What you pay
Add Your Plan, source, contract, order, invoice and pay. Every price stands up to its contract, its benchmark and its budget, and every saving reaches the ledger.Heading Text Here
Dials owned by the CFO and CPO
Supply
Who supplies it, and whether they deliver
Supplier qualification and risk, delivery performance, receipt, production inputs and returns. Every supplier earns its place and every promise is held to account.
Dials owned by the CPO or CSCO
Systems
The systems it all runs on
Master data, access and delegation of authority, the audit trail, and the seams between systems. The foundation is governed as closely as the transactions on top of it.
Dials owned by the CTO
Twelve stages, plan to pay. Every control you want at each one.
Governance reaches every stage of the chain, and Enable — your data, access and systems — runs beneath all of them.
Enable · master data · access and delegation · integrations · audit trail
Runs beneath every stageGoverned before you commit, at commit, and after.
BEFORE YOU COMMIT
Advise
What should we buy, from whom, at what price?
Helm advises on reserve price, scope and route to market while the decision is still open.
AT COMMIT
Control and approve
Is what we are about to commit right?
Helm gates, tiers and queries the commitment, and holds it for the right approver.
AFTER COMMIT
Verify and correct
Is what we received and paid for what we committed to?
Helm matches, writes the correction back to your systems and recovers the value.
The same loop runs inside every control. Improve feeds the next cycle, so your controls tighten over time.
Governance runs in six groups, across the wholechain.
Each group governs one kind of decision. Lens lights up the groups that apply to you, and more switch on as your authority grows.
SPEND
Price governance
Reserve prices, drift and should-cost, so what you pay stands up to scrutiny
SPEND
Price governance
Reserve prices, drift and should-cost, so what you pay stands up to scrutiny
SUPPLY
Supplier governance
Selection, qualification, concentration and route to market, settled before you commit.
SPEND
Financial governance
Settlement, three-way match, tax and recovery, so savings reach the ledger.
SYSTEMS
Data governance
Clean master data and trusted feeds — the foundation everything else stands on.
ALL THREE
Intelligence governance
Advice with a source and a timestamp, issued before the decision.
You set the authority, control by control.
Every exception is caught and measured. For each control, you choose whether Helm advises the person who owns it or acts on their authority — and you widen that choice as confidence grows. Lens computes the ceiling from the strength of your data, integrations and security; within it, the choice is yours.
YOUR CONTROLS, YOUR CHOICE
Price above the contract rate
PRICE GOVERNANCE
Supplier outside the approved list
SUPPLIER GOVERNANCE
Payment ahead of agreed terms
FINANCIAL GOVERNANCE
Duplicate vendor record
DATA GOVERNANCE
Illustrative controls
TIER 1
Govern
Helm watches every transaction, flags each exception the moment it occurs, and routes it to its owner in your approval chain. Your people decide every correction.
EARNED WHEN
Every customer starts here, with governance on from day one.
TIER 2
Govern + Analyze
Everything in Govern, plus the recommended fix with its reasoning and confidence, so decisions move faster. Your people approve.
EARNED WHEN
Your data and integrations are consistent enough to trust recommendations.
TIER 3
Govern + Analyze + Orchestrate
Everything in Analyze, plus action on the controls you authorize: Helm corrects the record in your systems on the owner's authority, with a full trail and rollback. High-risk decisions stay with your people.
EARNED WHEN
Data quality, integration and security posture are all trusted.
The Helm journey
X-plore → Lens → Snapshot → Pilot → Helm
FREE
X-plore
A ~10-minute readiness read. Runs before any connection.
DATA
Lens
A guided diagnostic on your own spend, supply and systems data.
REPORT
Governance Snapshot
Where value leaks across your chain today — quantified, per control.
SHADOW
Pilot
The loop runs in shadow mode against live transactions.
LIVE
Helm
Governance goes live, one earned control at a time.
Matched to your industry. What runs for you on day one.
Your starting groups are matched to your sector and switched on at Tier 1. Your exact set is confirmed in Lens — these are illustrative starters.
Metals and mining
DAY-ONE STARTERS
- Price — index-linked contract drift
- Supplier — contractor and spares qualification
- Delivery — freight and demurrage against contract
- Data — material master kept clean
Chemicals and fertilisers
DAY-ONE STARTERS
- Price — feedstock and freight indexation
- Supplier — approved and statutory-compliant vendors
- Financial — tax credit and three-way match
- Delivery — dispatch against receipt quantity
Manufacturing
DAY-ONE STARTERS
- Price — variance against contract
- Supplier — approved-vendor enforcement
- Delivery — on time and in full
- Data — bill of materials and asset master
Public sector
DAY-ONE STARTERS
- Supplier — tender integrity and eligibility
- Financial — budget and delegation of authority
- Price — rate contract adherence
- Intelligence — an audit-ready decision record
Healthcare
DAY-ONE STARTERS
- Price — consumables rate contract
- Supplier — certified and licensed suppliers
- Delivery — expiry and cold chain at receipt
- Financial — duplicate payment caught
Services
DAY-ONE STARTERS
- Financial — statement of work and milestone billing
- Price — rate card adherence
- Supplier — contractor compliance
- Data — access and delegation kept current
More groups switch on as your authority grows.
Time-to-value — what to plan for.
The assessment work is short. Integration and legal set the real timeline, so plan on the realistic number.
BEST CASE
6-8 Weeks
Single business unit · single region · standard ERP · fast legal cycle.
REALISTIC
10–14 weeks
Two to three business units · one country · standard integrations · normal legal cycle.
COMPLEX ROLLOUT
16–24 weeks
Multi-region · multiple ERPs · custom integrations · longer procurement cycles.
Built for the people who own the number.
CFO
Every saving reconciled to the ledger, every payment governed.
Spend
CPO or CSCO
Spend and supply governed at every stage, ready for audit.
Supply
CTO
The data, access and systems the chain runs on, governed and measured.
Systems
SI partners
A governance layer to deploy beside any ERP.
Partners
See where your value chain stands.
Ten minutes, free, and the report is yours to keep.
Start with X-plore →