Supply Chain

I left Personnel hub 17 for the first time since assignment.

The preparation schedule requires a full equipment audit before Term start — cross-referenced against the packing list, the sensor module situation, and whatever the depot eventually delivers. I put together a procurement draft during the first Blok of Beta shift and brought it to the Nexus section supply terminal on Corridor C.

The terminal is three intersections from my hub. The station is louder out here. Loading crews moving between bays, internal freight on the overhead lines, two shift managers arguing about throughput numbers outside Section Logistics. I passed a productivity board on the east wall — Nexus Bravo's weekly aggregate posted against the other five sections in column format. Nexus is ranked third.

I did not stop to read the margin.

At the terminal I ran the procurement list through Echo and asked for stock availability and estimated delivery windows from Nexus section's supply chain.

Echo returned the data in full. Then appended a cross-section comparison.

Nexus Bravo carries fourteen of the seventeen items. Three — the primary scan array module, the auxiliary scan array module, and the atmospheric analysis module — are either out of stock or show delivery windows beyond the current Deca. Echo flagged equivalent components available from Section Auris at 31% faster delivery on the primary scan array module and confirmed stock on the other two.

I asked Echo to remove the cross-section data from the query output.

It returned one line. Parameter not supported. Output reflects full database scope.

I stood at the terminal for a Blok.

Ordering from Auris is not against protocol. There is no regulation that requires procurement to stay within section. But Nexus Bravo's productivity index is built from transaction volume, output units, and internal delivery fulfilment. Every order routed outside the section is a unit that does not count toward Nexus. That affects the index. The index affects the ration allocation tier.

I am assigned to Nexus Bravo. My ration tier is Nexus Bravo's ration tier.

I submitted the fourteen available items through Nexus section supply chain and marked the remaining three as pending. I will recheck stock in two Decas. The delivery window might close.

Echo confirmed the submission. No additional output.

On the way back through Corridor C I passed the productivity board again. Nexus Bravo, third of five. The gap between second and third was 4.2 index points. I do not know what 4.2 index points translates to in ration terms. I did not find documentation on the conversion scale in my onboarding materials.

That is something I should find out before Term start.