GENCO

Pittsburgh, PA

Herb Shear, CEO & Chairman

800-224-3141

www.genco.com

3PL Turnover:

$700m

Service Area:

North America

3PL Assets:

6,267 employees

95 warehouses

Information Systems:

Good

TMS – Sterling–Nistevo, Manhattan ILS

WMS – Proprietary–D-Logplus & R-Log

Services:

Transportation management, warehouse management, manufacturing support, reverse logistics, freight forwarding, dedicated contract carriage, customs brokerage, small package negotiation and auditing

Industry Focus:

Apparel, automotive, building materials, consumer goods, food, healthcare, industrial, retail, technology

Key Customers:

Best Buy, Briggs & Stratton, Dell Computer, Heinz, Hershey’s, Hewlett-Packard, International Truck & Engine, Pacific Cycle, Levi Strauss, Reebok, Sears, Target, Unilever, Wal-Mart, Whirlpool

Armstrong & Associates’ Evaluation:

GENCO dominates the reverse logistics area, including asset recovery. It also specializes in return center management supported by software specifically designed for the task. Vertical industries percentage mix: automotive (4%), building materials (4%), consumer goods (18%), cosmetics and personal (22%), healthcare (5%), retailing (29%), technology (4%), transportation and moving (4%) and all other (10%). In addition, GENCO runs a host of quality value-added distribution operations and has steadily improved its transportation management.