Coordinate decisions as a system.

A late shipment affects purchasing, inventory, production, and a customer promise. Those teams already depend on one another. Orchestration makes the dependencies explicit so that helping one team does not quietly move the problem to another.

A workflow is useful when the next steps are known. Orchestration also needs a current picture of the situation: what changed, what each participant intends, and which commitments a response would affect.

Proposals, simulations, and commitments have different meanings. When objectives conflict, preserve the alternatives and identify who can authorize a change. Existing workflows can execute parts of the response within that wider decision process.