After recently announcing $40 million in new business last year, Kenco Logistics executives are confident that the company’s aggressive efficiency program is paying off.
Jim Kennedy III, chairman and an owner of the family enterprise, said the third-party logistics company’s continued activity in the face of falling demand lies in small innovations and incremental improvements.
“We look at how long does it take to reach out and grab something, how many steps do you take,” he said.
The company official said Kenco works constantly to make operations more efficient by working directly with employees to improve productivity.
“We go to one place in the building, and say ‘what can we do here,” Mr. Kennedy said. “It’s very democratic, with a lot of stopwatch work.”