Before a line of the Control Tower was built, Vivansa spent a year understanding the problem. Lear Corporation UK's customs compliance was historically decentralised and manual — and with Brexit reshaping UK–EU trade, cost pressure across the automotive sector, and competitors adopting advanced compliance technology, the status quo was a liability. The goal of the engagement was ambitious: turn customs compliance from an overhead into a competitive advantage.
Context & challenges
Manual, fragmented processes don't scale to the pace and scrutiny of post-Brexit customs. Lear needed a clear-eyed view of where the gaps were, what closing them would cost and return, and what a target architecture should look like — not just for the immediate UK need, but for future international deployment.
Our approach
Vivansa ran a comprehensive preliminary analysis:
- A gap analysis of the existing compliance processes
- A cost/benefit evaluation to build the business case
- An enterprise solution architecture design
- A phased implementation roadmap
The framework was deliberately designed as a scalable, global blueprint — addressing the UK's immediate requirements while leaving room to extend the same approach to other operations.
Outcomes
The analysis produced the blueprint for a compliance Control Tower — an orchestration platform spanning the whole compliance value chain: supplier qualification, origin determination, pre-filing validation, declaration management, post-filing surveillance, real-time visibility, and automated workflow.
That blueprint is exactly what Vivansa went on to build for Lear — and the groundwork that, in time, led to Viictor.