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Stop the line or ship around it

Decide when stopping work protects quality better than expediting around a defect.

Strongest move: Pause the batch, contain affected invoices, fix the mapping, and add a prevention check. Strong because jidoka prevents defect outflow and turns the abnormality into process learning. The weaker moves look busy but violate lean's bias toward seeing the work, protecting flow, and learning from facts.

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