Annual US manufacturing facility benchmarking survey

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Annual US manufacturing facility benchmarking survey: responses from 456 US manufacturing facilities covering the composition of cost pressure (raw material price volatility cited as the primary driver of higher operating expenses at 26%, labour costs at 21%), tariff impact on profitability and pricing strategy, cost-control and operational-consistency practices, and the build-out of forecasting and analytics capability to align internal data with market conditions. Latent asset is the facility-level benchmark response file — cost-structure, tariff-response and analytics-adoption answers matched to each responding plant — and its multi-year run as a repeated panel of US plants.