North America’s supply chains have grown more complex, digital, and customer-centric, yet Kenco has remained a constant force of clarity and performance for 75+ years. Operating from Chattanooga, Tennessee, it has amassed 141 distribution facilities spread across 35 states, controlling 43 million square feet of warehouse space and supporting more than 390 customers. Those customers span consumer-packaged goods, durable consumer goods, food and beverage, industrial, life-sciences, retail and eCommerce, and technology and electronics that rely on precision logistics to protect margins and brand reputation.
Kenco approaches every engagement as an exercise in connecting people, processes, and technology. Its Integrated Logistics model folds warehousing, transportation, material-handling equipment, eCommerce fulfillment, data science, and consulting into a single point of accountability. The result is measurable: inventory accuracy averaging 97.3%, order accuracy of 99.98%, on-time shipping at 99.8%, and MHE cost reductions between 20-26%. By synchronizing these disciplines, it eliminates data hand-offs that typically inflate cost and obscure root causes.
That same precision extends to eCommerce fulfillment. Agile B2B and D2C solutions sit inside a nationwide warehouse network so parcels reach shoppers quickly, even at peak season. Real-time inventory visibility, automated order routing, and integrations with leading carts and marketplaces flow through robust WMS, OMS, and TMS platforms, enabling pick-pack-ship operations, branded packaging, subscription programs, and returns processing without manual swivel-chair work. Data-driven slotting and demand forecasting ensure inventory and labor rise, or contract, as order volume fluctuates.
Everything we’ve built at Kenco is designed to deepen relationships and elevate supply chain performance, integrating logistics, automation, analytics, and packaging into solutions that scale with our customers’ evolving needs. — Denis Reilly, CEO
Inside the four walls, Kenco MHE Solutions® – Support for Today. Insight for Tomorrow.™ adapts the lifecycle of forklifts, AGVs, conveyors, and robotics. FleetCloud™ telemetry captures utilization, safety, and compliance metrics in real time, while Strategic Insights consultants translate those numbers into lifecycle plans that have saved customers an average 26% and, in one appliance manufacturer’s case, $21.7 million over four years on a $19 million annual fleet. Automation Guidance builds on that foundation with independent ROI modeling and deployment of AGVs that have quadrupled pick rates, conveyors that relieve bottlenecks, and palletizers that tame SKU variability.
Transportation completes the end-to-end flow. Managed transportation, dedicated contract carriage, freight brokerage, and a predictive analytics-enabled TMS compress transit times and soften truckload volatility. Safety awards from the American Trucking Associations, including the President’s Trophy and first place in national contests, highlight a culture that prizes compliance as much as cost control. For shippers, that translates to reliable capacity, deep carrier relationships, real-time control-tower visibility, and automated exception handling that prevents service failures before freight ever moves off the dock.
Within the warehouse network, 90+ state-of-the-art distribution centers across the United States and Canada, as well as mapped facility-by-facility on its interactive tool, Kenco delivers flexible shared or dedicated space, FDA-registered environments, and temperature-controlled storage.
The Kenco O/S operating system, modeled on Shingo principles, drives productivity, quality, and talent engagement while outperforming industry safety benchmarks by 42% on recordable injuries and 34% on lost-time incidents, yielding roughly $375,000 in annual injury-related savings per customer. Contract packaging capabilities layer in kitting, labeling, POP display builds, variety packs, and compliance packaging so inventory can bypass third-party rework centers altogether. Distribution Technology Solutions, such as RFID, barcode automation, and real-time dashboards, close the loop with perpetual inventory and cycle-count accuracy.
Data forms the connective tissue of this ecosystem. Kenco UNIFY consolidates fulfillment, labor, inventory, MHE, transportation, sustainability, and risk data into a single source of truth, applying diagnostic, predictive, and prescriptive analytics to labor planning, slotting, demand forecasting, and maintenance scheduling. Its Slot DC platform earned 2023 “Warehousing Automated Picking Solution of the Year” honors for AI-powered zoning and slotting improvements.
Moreover, Kenco’s 10,000-square-foot Innovation Lab in Chattanooga prototypes emerging technologies such as LoadProof photo documentation that cut customer complaints by 95% and saved six figures, Locatible RTLS for asset tracking, Rocket Turn driver displays that accelerated loading 3% and saved $172,000, and countless IoT, AS/RS, robotics, and mobile apps, thus generating more than $5 million in savings in its first year alone.
Kenco’s Logistics Engineering and Consulting group, led by doctorate-level professionals, rounds out the offering with network optimization, inventory planning, carbon-footprint analysis, facility layout, workflow design, and packaging sustainability.
From the macro view of network modeling to the micro view of forklift battery voltage, Kenco delivers a closed-loop supply chain in which strategy, execution, and continuous improvement share one language and one data foundation. It continues to focus on sustaining growth, protecting margins, and future-proofing supply chains against whatever disruption arrives next.