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The authors would like to thank the following Kearney colleagues for their valuable contributions: Jared Angin, Astha Arora, Megan Brown, Dhruv Chadha, Pooja Chaudhary, Lynn Chen, Brittany Cohen, Zack Coley, Lori Couto, Ryan Dalipsingh, Scott Daniels, Kevin Ding, Robert Downey, Haley Dunbrack, Gennie Faber, Alex Frank, Frank Gao, Vipul Garg, Alejandro Gonzalez, Daniel Harder, Katie Helliwell, Jeff Hewitt, Whitney Kaspers, Dominique Katthain, Elise Kerner, Puneet Khurana, Rachel Kim, Maria Kisker, Michelle Kolkevich, Kruthika Kumaragur, Ben Kuo, Michael Lin, Emily MacArthur, Kerry MacKenzie, Ansley Marks, Klara Mateju, Jack May, Aaron Mendelson, Alvaro Nunez, Marc Palazzolo, Erik Peterson, Deidra Pinnock, Karthik Rai, Jeremy Richardson, Rachael Rinchiuso, Amanda Riszko, Molly Ryan, Steve Solano, Dibyo Sarkar, Sandeep Shastry, Sudhanshu Singh, Yan Sun, Mihir Tamhankar, Javier Valdivia, Alexandra Vorobyeva, Kevin Wolfe, Katherine Wu, Alex Yu, Peter Zajc Zerjav, and Qing Zhou.

The author team would also like to thank the following external colleagues for their valuable contributions: Marc Althen and Alen Beljin, Penske Logistics; Josh Dineen, LaserShip; Julianne Dunn, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland; Rob Haddock, The Coca-Cola Company; Anshu Prasad, Leaf Logistics; James Reed, Kodiak Robotics; Mark Ribbing, Nascent Wave; and Ravi Shanker, Morgan Stanley.