BRUSSELS; May 02, 2019 — LEAR Corporation UK, the leading Tier-1 manufacturer in the automotive sector (car seats and electric engineering), has mandated Vivansa’s experts to study the necessary alignments to be made to their Customs compliance processes to cope with the new legal obligations brought about by Brexit.

This study is expected to cover all aspects related to Customs compliance in the various LEAR plants in the UK and will take approximately 10 to 12 months to complete. The study will include a gap analysis, a cost/benefit analysis, a definition of possible (IT) solution architecture, and an implementation roadmap.

Lear Corporation is an American company that manufactures automotive seating and automotive electrical systems. In 2019, it ranked #147, and in 2018, it ranked #148 on the Fortune 500 list. Lear grew during the 1980s and 1990s through a series of acquisitions. The company sought to become a supplier of complete interior automotive systems, that is, a supplier of seating, electrical, flooring, interior trim, instrument panels, etc., to original equipment manufacturing (OEM) auto companies.