What edge cases trip up point-of-sale systems in railroads, shipping and ports, including vessel delayed?

In railroads, shipping and ports watch for: vessel delayed; mixed currencies; short supply delivered to ship. A system that cannot handle these will frustrate the business; the catalog's failsafe items address some generic cases.

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