Wincanton extends WH Smith contract

Wincanton has signed a three-year extension to a collaborative transport management contract for WH Smith, the high-street retailer. This extension includes an efficiency initiative that aims to cut down on store deliveries without any effect on service levels.

David McKinlay, supply chain director at WH Smith, said the extension to the collaborative transport agreement reflected how Wincanton had "reframed" WH Smith’s transport model to cut costs and carbon emissions. "With an increase in store locations and aggressive fuel inflation, we needed a different type of relationship that would create a step-change in the way we were utilising transport. Wincanton has met this challenge head on and created significant economies of scale by combining our transport operations with those of over 30 other retailers and manufacturers," said McKinlay.

Wincanton said its load-sharing approach – shared high street deliveries and splitting costs among more than 30 other retailers and manufacturers – has achieved a significant reduction in costs and carbon emissions.

The contract covers Wincanton’s work for WH Smith hubs in Swindon, Dunstable and Birmingham, as well as Wincanton’s own multi-user depots in Middleton, near Manchester, and Mossend in Scotland. Wincanton’s fleet of 22 tractor units, 52 trailers and 47 rigids, are operated by 160 drivers and warehouse staff who service around 1,000 WH Smith stores in the UK and Ireland.

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