Commodities
Moving Steel with Speed: How National Wire Modernized Logistics with Wilson
About National Wire
National Wire is the largest single locality of welded wire manufacturers in the southern United States of America. With over 200 shipments moving across the South each month, their logistics operations are a constant balancing act between cost, reliability, and speed.
Wilson, our AI logistics coordinator, now works right alongside National Wire’s team—streamlining procurement, eliminating freight bureaucracy, and bringing new transparency to every step of their logistics process. Wilson never clocks out—he’s always monitoring shipments, tracking performance, and analyzing data in real time, ensuring nothing slips through the cracks even when the team is away.
Challenge
As demand grew, National Wire’s logistics team faced a familiar but difficult challenge: how to do more with less while maintaining control. With hundreds of monthly shipments spanning the southern U.S., costs and carrier coordination were becoming increasingly complex.
The team wanted to cut procurement costs, reduce manual effort, and eliminate redundant processes—but they also needed a clear, data-backed view of their progress. Without a reliable system for tracking rates, performance, and outcomes, important context often lived in spreadsheets or individual inboxes. They needed a smarter way to see what was working, where improvement was happening, and how to make better procurement decisions moving forward.
Wilson Comes Aboard
Wilson joined the National Wire team as a true AI teammate rather than another logistics tool. Not only did he integrate seamlessly, he made troublesome existing processes obsolete. On day one, the team had sharper tools for managing carrier relationships, allowing for a new layer of visibility across their operations.
Wilson continuously monitors shipments, evaluates carrier performance, and captures every transaction and rate in one central record. Over time, this growing database gives National Wire a living history of their logistics performance—helping them identify trends, benchmark progress, and make more informed decisions when procuring.
Each week, Wilson compiles this intelligence into a fully customized report that surfaces key metrics, opportunities for savings, and areas to optimize. The team can see exactly where they’re improving and how their changes translate into real results.
He also expanded National Wire’s carrier outreach, giving them access to more options—and more negotiating power—so their freight moves efficiently, competitively, and on time. And because Wilson works around the clock, he’s constantly learning, adapting, and improving the process, even when the team is offline.
What's Next
With Wilson embedded in their operations, National Wire has turned logistics from a manual burden into a data-driven advantage. Every shipment adds to their intelligence—building a transparent record of performance, costs, and outcomes that helps them continuously optimize their procurement strategy.
The next phase of our partnership focuses on advanced analytics—evolving Wilson into a predictive agent that can not only report on progress but forecast future performance. Together, we’re creating a logistics operation that’s efficient, transparent, and always improving—powered by an AI teammate who's always working for National Wire.
