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Rain lashed against my office windows as the email notification chimed - our biggest client needed emergency restocking by dawn. My stomach dropped. Three pallets of cleaning supplies vanished from inventory after that delivery truck fiasco, and now this. I pictured driving across São Paulo in this downpour, begging wholesalers for mercy pricing. My knuckles whitened around the phone. This disaster would gut our quarterly margins.

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