DEChallenge it first, then decide.
Before you terminate a contract or switch suppliers, you get a decision paper: what speaks for it, what speaks against it, where the risk lies and what your records leave open. Every line leads to its source. Only a person can approve.
- Every line has a source
- Gaps are named
- Only a person approves
Decision paper
Purchasing workspace · 14 documents
Terminate the Nordstahl framework agreement early?
- ForTwo alternative offers are 11% below the contract price.Offer comparison Q3 · p. 2
- AgainstEarly termination only for good cause.Nordstahl agreement · § 4.2
- RiskTerm runs to 06/2027, minimum volume 70% met.Acceptance log 2026 · table 1
- OpenNo document says whether the May delays count as good cause.No source
Recommendation
Do not terminate. Prepare a renegotiation for 1 July.
Example with fictional content.
Four viewpoints
Every proposal is read from four sides.
All four work on the same documents and with your permissions. None of them may claim anything that is not in a source. Where the sources say nothing, the paper lists it as an open point.
What your records say in favour
Arguments only come from sources you have approved. Each one carries a citation that opens the document at the right page.
For
Terminate the Nordstahl framework agreement early?
Two alternative offers are 11% below the contract price.
Source:Offer comparison Q3 · p. 2
In May, three of eight deliveries arrived later than agreed.
Source:Goods received May · rows 14–21
Only statements with a source make it into the paper.
After the paper
The system prepares. A person decides.
A decision paper is a proposal, not a decision. Only the approval of a named person turns it into one, and the whole case stays traceable.
One page instead of twenty open tabs. Recommendation, arguments, risk and open points sit on one paper. Every line leads to its source.
Nordstahl · termination
- Recommendation: do not terminate
- 2 arguments for
- 2 objections against
- 1 risk with follow-on cost
- 2 open points
8 passages from 5 documents
Approval by a named person
Whoever approves a paper is named in the case. The system confirms nothing in the background.
Nothing happens silently
Commitments and interventions wait in the approval inbox until someone decides.
The case stays readable
Paper, approval and receipt belong to one case. Months later you can still see who decided, and on what basis.
Framework agreement · § 7.3
Delays below 10 days are not good cause.
Supplier policy · 2.4
Repeated delays justify termination.
Contradictions stay visible
When two documents disagree, both passages stay in the paper.
Only what you may see
What someone may not open feeds into no viewpoint.
Approval with a receipt
The approval is filed with the case, with name, time and basis.
Use cases
Where teams create a decision paper.
Wherever a decision rests on contracts, logs and policies that nobody fully keeps in their head.
What management and departments want to know first.
Including the limits. A decision paper is only as good as the documents behind it.
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