Focus: Cost Optimization, Supply Chain Resilience, Facility Efficiency Background: A Manufacturer Caught Between Tariffs and Inflation By mid-year, a well-known regional manufacturer and commercial building operator found itself squeezed from all sides, but especially in its manufacturing business. Tariffs inflated import costs. Freight rates doubled. Vendor contracts, signed in better times, were locking in inefficiencies that no one had bothered to revisit. The bottom line