Picture the typical tariff response inside a manufacturer or retailer. Finance flags a jump in landed costs. Sales announces a price increase to cover it. Procurement, worried about the next round of duties, places a large forward order. Operations hunts for warehouse space. Each team acts quickly and in good faith, yet the combined result is often worse than any single decision would suggest: margin still leaks, cash sits idle in stock, and customers receive mixed signals.
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