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Wincanton sectors

We work with organisations across many sectors, treating their businesses as our own and learning about their customers and operations. We take on their challenges and work in partnership for mutual reward. It’s only by understanding our customers' supply chains that we can help to deliver their goals and ambitions.

Retail

We help retailers at every point in the supply chain, from inbound containers to e-fulfilment and home delivery.

Consumer goods

Our solutions enable manufacturers to improve productivity, achieve efficiencies and deliver excellent customer service.

Construction

Our fleet of specialist equipment delivers various materials to both private and public sector construction projects.

Defence

We have extensive experience in providing logistics solutions for land, sea and air defence manufacturers.

Energy

With safety in mind, we transport both bulk and packaged energy, chemical and petroleum products.

Public sector

Through our partnership with Serco we provide secure custodial transport and logistics support to the public sector.

Water

Our emergency water service supports large corporates and utility companies when water supply is disrupted.

Events

We keep the show on the road providing water solutions for events, festivals and concerts.

Milk and bulk food

We provide bulk storage, handling and transport solutions for agricultural products, milk and ingredients.
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Shared user

Flexible, shared user warehousing solutions

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Wincanton has over 30 strategically located, shared user warehouses across the UK all offering fully flexible and cost-effective storage solutions. All our shared user sites are integrated with Wincanton’s wider supply chain infrastructure and provide a range of logistics solutions including storage, picking, co-packing and transport.

Multi-user and pay-as-you-go warehousing

Whether our customers are seeking short, medium or long-term storage – perhaps to cope with seasonal fluctuations or a rapid change in business conditions – Wincanton is able to help meet the challenge. We offer all our customers the same excellent level of service, whether the storage requirement is for 20 pallets or 2,000. We use industry leading warehouse management systems, which give our customers detailed and accurate information for their individual operation.

Financial flexibility is another driving force in our business. Our charging mechanisms are designed to suit the customer, providing pay-as-you-go storage, flexible priced per pallet or square foot. We can also provide separate pricing structures for handling and management, through to more formal open-book structures.

Pick, pack, co-pack and rework

Our local management and operational teams are experienced in managing a wide array of value-added services, including wet and dry bonded storage and duty management, co-packing, reworking, inventory management, and regional consolidation.

Our sites are available for immediate occupation, and our unrivalled implementation pedigree ensures that our customers experience no interruption to their business.

Warehouse management systems

To increase speed to market and minimise upfront investment, Wincanton, in conjunction with Manhattan Associates, has developed a warehouse management system (WMS) specifically for use in our shared user sites. This flexible application provides all the core functionality of a large-scale WMS including inventory management, item tracking and performance reporting, but takes away the burden and costs of a large-scale system implementation.