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    Redwood Optimizes Cross-Border Logistics for a Tier One Auto Supplier

    MARKET: AUTOMOTIVE

    This Redwood customer is a Tier One supplier to the global automotive industry, producing millions of parts annually. Components are manufactured at a network of American facilities and shipped to the major Japanese automotive companies, as wellas the Big Three U.S. automakers. This U.S.-based company partners with a sister company in Mexico, as well as a network of Mexican suppliers.

    THE CHALLENGES

    • Cross-border logistics complexity
    • Need to optimize for multiple priorities
    • High customer expectations
    • Need for specialized cross-border logistics expertise

    THE SOLUTION

    Based on its international logistics expertise, Redwood provided an integrated cross-border capacity solution for the company’s northbound and southbound shipments that includes transportation management of U.S. and Mexican customs brokerage services, and end-to-end visibility. Redwood’s solution enables the manufacturer to streamline its operations by holding one party accountable for the execution of cross-border movements.

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    Redwood was able to deliver a cost-effective, one-stop solution that ensures the cross-border transportation network flows rapidly and seamlessly, to meet its customers’ high service expectations. Redwood also helped the company rationalize its Mexican supplier network to achieve cost and service efficiencies, while still delivering the high product quality this Tier One supplier is known for.

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    THE RESULTS

    Significant reduction in transportation spend
    Improved lead times
    Greater visibility and resilience to disruptions
    Increased responsiveness
    Effective exception management 

    KEY TOOLS

    Door-to-door cross-border transportation and capacity solutions
    Management of U.S. and Mexican customs brokerage services

    We were looking for a single partner that could help us manage the complexities of cross-border logistics. From rationalizing our supplier base to understanding the complexities of the customs process—as well as having ‘boots on the ground’ in Mexico—Redwood Logistics delivered the one-stop solution we were looking for.

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