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"You cannot get more central than Crick. We pull containers off rail at DIRFT and they're on the M1 within minutes. For national trunking it's simply the best-positioned spot in the country."
A stock figure Crick businesses can trade on — counted continuously rather than once a year, with min/max alerts and ageing reports, on M1 (J18).
WSUK holds and counts stock for Crick businesses to 99.5%+ accuracy — no annual stocktake shutdown, batch and expiry tracked, min/max reorder alerts and ageing reports. M1 (J18), A5, A428 and M6 (J1) on the doorstep; we also cover Rugby and Daventry.
Inventory accuracy is not a warehouse vanity metric. It is what decides whether you oversell, over-order, or discover a problem at year end.
A rolling programme that counts fast-moving lines often and everything periodically — instead of one disruptive annual stocktake that tells you about last year.
When a count disagrees with the system we find out why — mis-pick, mis-receipt, damage, theft — because the reason is worth more than the adjustment.
Min/max levels set with you and alerted against, plus SKU, batch and expiry reporting so slow movers and short-dated stock surface early.
Inventory management is included on managed fulfilment accounts and priced separately where we hold stock only. Short-term rate card for monthly rolling; long-term contract rates tier down with pallet volume.
Pay-per-use published rates with no commitment.
Locked-in rates on multi-year SLAs.
Located storage with perpetual cycle counting.
A complete wall-to-wall count where you need one.
Live stock pushed to your systems and channels.
Indicative ranges based on standard requirements. Bespoke / hazardous / temperature-controlled goods are quoted separately. Get an exact quote for your volumes →
Crick is small, but in logistics terms it is enormous. This unassuming Northamptonshire village in the NN6 postcode sits directly atop DIRFT - the Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal - and beside Junction 18 of the M1, where the M6 also begins at Junction 1. It is, quite literally, the rail-freight heart of the UK's Golden Triangle. The Rugby core is around eight minutes away, and few points in Britain place a business closer to the intersection of motorway and rail than this.
DIRFT is the reason Crick punches so far above its weight. The terminal moves containers between rail and road at national scale, and the vast distribution centres that ring it - occupied by household-name retailers and grocers - depend on that connection to feed the country. The nearby Crick Industrial Estate adds further space, but it is the rail terminal that defines the area's purpose: this is where trunk-haul freight transfers from train to truck for onward delivery across the Midlands and beyond.
For all its national significance, Crick sits among familiar Northamptonshire and Warwickshire neighbours. Rugby is minutes up the A428, Daventry a short run along the A5, and Lutterworth with its Magna Park cluster lies just north via the M1. A base at Crick means being at the pivot point of the whole triangle - the place national 3PLs choose precisely because road, rail and the country's densest concentration of distribution capacity all converge in one spot.
The value of accurate stock around Crick is mostly invisible until it fails: a cancelled marketplace order, emergency freight on a line that ran out, or a write-off at year end nobody budgeted for. Perpetual counting prevents all three far more cheaply than discovering them does.
M1 (J18), A5, A428 and M6 (J1).
~8 min from the DIRFT / Rugby Golden-Triangle core.
Rail freight, national distribution and 3pl.
Operating from the Golden Triangle on M1 (J18), A5, A428 and M6 (J1) — around 8 minutes from the DIRFT core, and within easy reach of Rugby, Daventry and Lutterworth.
From first contact to live operation, our typical onboarding takes less than a week.
Volumes, SKUs, peak season, integrations. One 10-minute call is enough.
Transparent line-item pricing on a single page — no hidden fees, no jargon.
Walk the floor with our ops team. Bring your operations lead, not just procurement.
Stock in, scanning live, integrations active. Daily standups for the first two weeks.
Local answers for Crick, plus the questions every inventory management client asks.
It sits directly on top of DIRFT, the Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal, right beside M1 Junction 18 and the start of the M6 at Junction 1. That combination of rail and motorway makes tiny Crick one of the most significant logistics locations in the country.
DIRFT is a major rail-freight terminal that transfers containers between train and lorry at national scale. Basing near it lets you tap rail trunk-haul for long-distance inbound, then distribute by road, cutting cost and carbon on high-volume flows.
Extremely close - around eight minutes. Crick effectively is the core, sitting at M1 Junction 18 where the M6 also begins. You won't find a base more central to the triangle's road-and-rail convergence than this.
Lutterworth's Magna Park, the UK's largest distribution park, is a short run north on the M1, while Daventry's estates lie along the A5 and Rugby's are minutes away via the A428. It's the densest warehousing area in the country.
Absolutely - it's the classic choice. National 3PLs cluster here because DIRFT, the M1, the M6 and the country's biggest distribution parks all converge within minutes, making Crick unrivalled for high-volume, multimodal national distribution.
Fixed locations, barcode verification on every pick, and a perpetual cycle-count programme weighted so your fastest-moving SKUs are checked most often. We work to 99.5%+ on managed accounts.
No. Counting runs continuously against the live operation, so there is no stocktake weekend, no overtime and no backlog afterwards. Full wall-to-wall counts are available separately if an audit needs one.
It is investigated before anything is adjusted, and the cause is recorded — mis-pick, mis-receipt, damage, short delivery. You authorise the adjustment. The cause report is what stops it recurring.
Yes — batch, lot and expiry tracked where your products need it, with short-dated stock flagged while it can still be sold.
Located storage with cycle counting from £4.50 per pallet per week, reporting and integration from £150 per week, full stocktakes quoted per count. Monthly rolling, no setup fee.
| What you get | WSUK | Generic 3PL / DIY |
|---|---|---|
| Live within 24–72 hours | Yes | Rarely |
| Perpetual cycle counting, no annual shutdown | Yes | Rarely |
| Variance causes recorded, not just adjusted | Yes | Rarely |
| No setup fee & no minimum | Yes | Rarely |
| Batch and expiry tracked | Yes | Rarely |
| Live availability pushed to every channel | Yes | Rarely |
We provide inventory management across Crick, Northamptonshire and the wider Golden Triangle — Rugby, Daventry and Lutterworth and beyond. Explore nearby service areas.
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