Decision governance is the discipline of making every commodity fixing defensible after the fact — by capturing, at the moment of decision, the inputs that informed it, the alternatives that were considered, the rationale that was applied, and the people who signed off. The goal is not bureaucracy; it is to convert hindsight into foresight and to give procurement, finance, and audit a single source of truth.
Without decision governance, a fixing made today becomes a story told six months from now in front of the CFO — and the story depends on memory, on the spreadsheet that has since been overwritten, on the analyst who has since changed roles. With decision governance, the fixing has a timestamped record: the forward curve at the time, the scenarios simulated, the chosen path, the quantified expected impact, the sign-off chain. The auditor and the CFO see the same artefact.
INAYA implements decision governance as a built-in capability: every fixing simulation produces an immutable, committee-ready record in under 30 seconds, with full audit trail. The buyer doesn’t write the report — the system writes it as the decision happens.
Related concepts: immutable decision record (the artefact), commodity audit trail (the chain across decisions), fixing decision (the object being governed).