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By Joe Henwood — former VP Global Omni Channel Inventory Management, Levi Strauss & Co. Most retail and consumer businesses I talk to have spent the last two years building tariff scenarios. Few have built the capacity to act on them. That is the real exposure. The mistake I see most often is treating tariffs as a finance problem. They are not. They are an inventory problem, a sourcing problem, a pricing problem, and a planning problem — and they show up in margin twelve mon