D12 — Cato dispatch amendment slips

Cato places the eight existing pallet runs and can issue the exact customer amendments specified in a response card. The manifests in this exercise are aggregated; there is no licence to add unknown cargo, routes or carrying limits.

An order is sometimes incomplete because an island shop does not yet know what the arriving stock contains. Requiring a final list earlier can move work to Cato without removing it. His two-week notebook records nine amendment exchanges; four added new information, three corrected a copied identifier, and two merely asked who would answer. These overlap partly with Mara's call count and must not be added as if independent savings.

Cato would test a small common reference on two existing runs if it works with his ordinary order slip and he may still say “quantity not confirmed”. He will not fund a new platform, take on repair-buying duties or accept a common risk pool.

He cares about one durable name for a consignment and a clear correction path. He can tolerate a failed internal trial that leaves his old slips and invoices intact. His willingness to discuss a trial is not acceptance of future fees, data disclosure or a permanent reorganisation.