Packaging Review for businesses across Lichfield and Staffordshire - specified against what you actually despatch, then delivered on a schedule that does not run you dry.
WSUK provides packaging review across Lichfield, Cannock and Burton upon Trent. Materials are specified to your product, held at our Lutterworth site around 45 minutes from Lichfield, and delivered into WS13-WS14 on a schedule agreed against your real consumption. Bespoke and printed lines are sampled before any production run.
Standard lines where they do the job and bespoke or printed lines where they earn it. Either way the specification is written down, so nobody re-decides the box size every quarter.
around 45 minutes by road from Lutterworth, in on A38, A5, A5127, M6 Toll (T5) and M42 (J9). Reorder points are agreed against your real consumption so the materials turn up before the shelf is empty rather than after somebody notices.
Distribution, logistics and light manufacturing. Manufactured goods are usually a load and corrosion problem; online and retail stock is usually a movement and carrier-band problem. Both are specification work.
Lichfield moves goods on A38, A5, A5127, M6 Toll (T5) and M42 (J9), and the trade estates sit where those routes meet - Britannia Enterprise Park, Trent Valley and Fradley Park among them. Postcodes run across WS13-WS14, taking in everything from small units on older industrial land to modern sheds on the edge of town. Packaging consumption follows that split: the small units want sensible quantities delivered reliably, and the larger operations want a specified line list and a call-off schedule.
From our Lutterworth site it is around 45 minutes to Lichfield on A38, A5, A5127, M6 Toll (T5) and M42 (J9). That is the whole supply chain for packaging into Staffordshire, and its chief virtue is that the stock is already made. When a line runs low in Lichfield, the question is when a vehicle is coming rather than when a machine is free - which is the difference between a replenishment and a stopped pack bench.
Given Lichfield's strength in Distribution, logistics and light manufacturing, a good deal of local packaging is bought on habit - the same lines, the same quantities, specified for a product range that has since changed shape. Reviewing it tends to find the same three things: duplicate sizes, over-specified board, and a fill material that is treating a movement problem as a cushioning one.
The review we run for Lichfield firms is an audit rather than a sales presentation with an audit on the front. We measure box sizes against real product dimensions, look at how a pack is built at the bench, examine the damage picture by cause, and then write the findings down - including the opportunities that are not worth pursuing.
Reviewing packaging from inside a despatch operation gives access to the numbers that are otherwise hard to get at: pack times, carrier band distributions, damage by format and the volume packaging occupies in racking. WSUK handles all of that daily, which is why a review for a Lichfield business tends to surface the labour and volume costs rather than only the unit price.
For Lichfield businesses that have grown from pallets into parcels, or the other way round, the packaging usually has not kept up. A parcel network handles goods far more roughly and far less predictably than a pallet journey, so the same product genuinely needs a different pack in each case.
A38, A5, A5127, M6 Toll (T5) and M42 (J9).
Around 45 minutes from our Lutterworth site.
Distribution, logistics and light manufacturing.
Estates, districts and neighbouring towns covered by the same Lichfield delivery pattern:
What Lichfield gets is a packaging supplier that also packs orders for a living, so the specification is written from the pack bench outward rather than from a catalogue inward.
The Golden Triangle base around 45 minutes from Lichfield is where the national road network converges, which is what makes UK-wide packaging supply from one stock holding practical rather than aspirational.
Specification first, then a quote against it.
Product, quantities and how it travels from Lichfield.
Materials and sizes chosen for the product and the journey.
Priced against the specification, with a physical sample on anything bespoke or printed.
Delivered into WS13-WS14, with call-off where the quantities suit.
Packaging Review in Lichfield at WSUK, answered plainly.
Yes, and they need different specifications. Online orders are about carrier size bands and network handling; manufactured goods are about stack load, restraint and corrosion. Plenty of Lichfield businesses now do both and need both answered.
Yes - distance is not the constraint, evidence is. Send us damaged returns or photographs of how items arrive and we can specify against the actual cause rather than adding protection and hoping.
Yes. Stock is held in the Midlands Golden Triangle, around 45 minutes from Lichfield by road on A38, A5, A5127, M6 Toll (T5) and M42 (J9), and delivered into WS13-WS14 and the surrounding Staffordshire area.
That is what a packaging review is for, and we will not quote you a percentage before looking. It examines materials, storage, transport, labour, damage and waste together and sets the findings out in writing.
That is frequently where the biggest number is. A damaged delivery costs the product, both carriage legs, the replacement and often the customer, so damage reduction and cost reduction tend to be the same project. See protective packaging.
We do not know yet, and nor does anyone else who has not looked at your operation. Any figure quoted before the audit is a sales number. The review tells you where the opportunities are and what each is worth; you decide which to act on.
Packaging Review is one of sixteen packaging services we supply into Lichfield. Each has a page of its own for the town.
We supply packaging review throughout the UK from Midlands stock. These are the nearest locations with a page of their own - the full list is on the packaging services hub.
One form, and we will come back with a specification and a price for WS13-WS14 delivery.