Process Flow Looping

I have a process flow that reads all GLNAMES records.

For each GLNAMES record it determines if an Attribute is associated with it from the AUMXVALUE file.  The attribute contains an RM ID.  Once I have the RM ID the flow performs an RM query to obtain the employee number.  I then utilize the employee number to query the EMPLOYEE file.  All of this works fine except when an RM ID does not have an employee number defined in the LAWSON_EMPLOYEE service. 

When an RM ID does not find an employee number it loops through ALL of the EMPLOYEE records where COMPANY=X and EMPLOYEE=.  This dramatically slows down the query and is causing issues.  I tried putting in a branch node to check the record count (xxxxx_RECORD_COUNT!=0), however, this was not successful. 

Any ideas?
Thanks in advance. 
Chad