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Kane is Able, Inc.


Richard Kane
President and CEO
A Focus on CPG Logistics

Kane Is Able is a third-party logistics provider that helps consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies efficiently distribute goods throughout the U.S. Our integrated warehousing, packaging, and transportation services have been specially designed to meet the needs of CPG manufacturers.

History

Kane Is Able, Inc. was founded in Scranton, PA in 1930 as a local trucking company. Today, Kane manages a truckload fleet of 200 power units and 925 trailers and operates 8.5 million square feet of distribution center space, with facilities in every region of the U.S. The company remains family-owned and professionally managed.

Strategy

Kane is strategically focused on providing logistics solutions for consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies. Our customers include some of the world’s most respected CPG manufacturers and retailers, including Kimberly-Clark, Kraft, PepsiCo, Procter & Gamble, Topps, and Walmart.

Services

Distribution Center Management. At Kane DCs, we configure and package goods based on the exact requirements of your retail customers. Facilities are FDA-compliant and consistently achieve superior ratings from the American Institute of Baking. Other features:

  • Flexible space/labor to manage seasonal spikes
  • Full-featured, RF-enabled WMS
  • Basic to highly automated picking processes

Contract Packaging. Packaging services integrate with warehousing and transportation to create a single-source distribution solution. Modern equipment includes cartoners, checkweighers and shrink wrapping machines to meet your simple and complex packaging needs.

Transportation. Our regional truckload service provides on-time, overnight delivery service to Northeast states for ambient, refrigerated and frozen products. In addition, Kane services nationwide deliveries throughout the lower 48 states and Northeastern Canada. Specialized services:

  • Cross-docking
  • Northeast store delivery
  • Load consolidation
Information Systems/Technology
  • Support for all common electronic data interchange (EDI) formats, including advanced ship notices
  • Full-featured warehouse management and transportation management systems
  • Web access to inventory and order status in real time
  • In-house MIS team to support your needs 24/7
Collaborative Distribution

Kane has pioneered the development of collaborative distribution— a new model of distribution in which small and mid-sized CPG companies work together to share warehouse space and overhead, consolidate shipments, and reduce their carbon footprint. In this model, costs and energy use are drastically reduced. Learn more at www.kaneisable.com/codegreen.

Kane is Able, Inc.
Stauffer Industrial Park
Scranton, PA 18501-0931
888-356-KANE (5263)
info@kaneisable.com
www.kaneisable.com