Formula Field and Pipeline Issue

One other thought, I've run into this working with chained pipelines, but with the all the pipeline based saving going on, etc. in your example, you might want to think about using the "Pause" in the "Clock" channel.  It might fit for this example. 

I've used it a couple of times to buy the system record states time to "catch up" before the pipeline continued .. even a couple of seconds can make a big difference.