Case Study
Kenco Solves Transportation Problem for Large Pharmaceutical Customer
Kenco Solves Transportation Problem for Large Pharmaceutical Customer Recently, Kenco helped solve a problem for one of our integrated warehousing and transportation customers in the pharmaceutical industry. Early in 2018, the customer’s Quality Assurance team changed its policy so that a certain product was now required to be temp-controlled to a range of 2-8 degrees Celsius during transport. (Previously it could be shipped in ambient trailers for up to 24 hours.) Because of the service-level needs of end-customers such as Walgreens and CVS, this product is often shipped one pallet at a time, so it wasn’t cost-effective to ship the product in reefer trailers. Thus, Kenco's Chattanooga DC started building specialty fiberboard boxes packed with Styrofoam and icepacks to ship single pallets