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A US tariff surcharge on most imports expires July 24. On its own, that sounds like good news: tariffs going away. But as any supply chain team can tell you, what matters more is what replaces it - and the fact that we aren’t exactly operating in an environment full of certainty!

The Villanova Knicks showed what happens when talented specialists operate with years of shared context. The future of procurement AI may depend less on building better agents and more on helping them coordinate.

Sounds great, but before you start building, it's worth understanding what production-scale agent systems actually require.