Milestone Confirmation Characteristic/Configuration

Good morning,
We are having an issue with an error when using a Milestone confirmation operation, "Preceding operation 005 of sequence 0 not yet confirmed."
This is a warning when reporting operation step that is later in process on a standard confirmaiton step but is an error (hard stop) when using a Milestone confirmation.
Is this configurable or is there a work around?
Example:
Op 10 Standard conf
Op 20 Milestone conf
Op 30 Standard conf
Op 10 not yet confirmed
Op 20 not yet confirmed
Op 30 attempting to confirm and receiving error, "Preceding operation 005 of sequence 0 not yet confirmed."
I understand that this does not make logical sense because these should be done in order, but we have a 3rd party software which batches the transactions. The batch may contain both 20 and 30 Op confirmations but it does 30 first and receives an error.
Any direction is much appreciated.
Thanks!

Dear Sir,
There are two type of confirmation.
1. Progresive Confirmation
2.Milestone Confirmation
In Progresive confirmation , we have to confirm each opertion of the routing of the production order
In Milestone confirmation,it is assumed that if the lats opertaion is confirmed all the preceding opertion is confirmed., as the milestome confirmation is generally being placed at the last operation
Regards
Bhupendra Singh

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