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OPS.11:2 - Problem

A local plan can omit a necessary coupling. Product is made but goods cannot be issued without documents. Tests complete but the evidence does not apply to the release configuration. Capacity exists but access is not granted in the required window. A resource-saving change transfers cost, risk or burden to another participant.

The opposite error builds an elaborate network description without changing any decision. The operation needs the smallest set of actual couplings that can reverse the proposed action, together with a usable coordination result.