Mission-Critical 3PL+

When a production line cannot go down, we are the supply chain behind it.

One unscheduled hour of line-down at a chip fab can cost a million dollars. A late battery shipment can stop an EV assembly plant. RK Logistics is the integrated 3PL+ operator that the most demanding manufacturers in North America trust to make sure that hour never happens — origin port to dock door to field engineer, one accountable team.

99.9%
OTIF on mission-critical programs
+
Sustained quality, across programs
700+
Supply chain professionals
35yr
Track record, same discipline
● Live Operations — trailing 30 days Refreshed Mondays from the RK operating dashboard.
2.4M+
Units shipped · trailing 30 days
11,400+
Inbound containers handled · trailing 12 months
99.4%
Inventory accuracy · trailing 12 months
0
Recordable safety incidents · YTD across 16 facilities
Trusted Across the Innovation Economy
Semiconductor equipment Advanced mobility & EV Energy storage High-precision electronics Hyperscale & data center Spare parts management Global freight forwarding Direct-to-consumer fulfillment
Compliance · ISO 9001 quality management · AS9100 aerospace scope · IATF 16949 automotive scope · C-TPAT certified · FTZ operator · Hazmat / DOT · CMMC alignment in progress
The Integrated Operator

One operator. Origin port to field engineer.

Most 3PLs sell components. RK is built as a stack — four operating layers that snap together so customers don't have to manage four vendors, four contracts, and four sets of metrics.

Layer 01

Warehouse to World

Global freight forwarding, customs brokerage, and cross-border ground. Origin port handled with the same standard as our dock door.

Layer 02

Innovation Center

Home of the Inbound Control Tower™ — real-time visibility, exception engine, customer dashboards, customer API.

Layer 03

Facilities

16 purpose-designed warehouses across six U.S. states, including the Kato Road flagship for EV battery and Foreign Trade Zone facilities for duty deferral.

Layer 04

Capacity & Brokerage

Vetted carrier network for FTL, LTL, intermodal, and expedited domestic capacity — managed inside the same operating discipline.

One contract. One set of metrics. One accountable operator.

Services

Fourteen services. One integrated operation.

RK delivers end-to-end supply chain services configured to each customer's manufacturing rhythm — not as isolated line items but as one continuous flow from inbound dock to the line.

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Manufacturing support & line-side delivery

Just-in-time and just-in-sequence delivery of components to the production line, synchronized with the customer's manufacturing cadence. Parts sequencing, inventory management, and order optimization.

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Warehousing & managed storage

Purpose-designed facilities for commercial and industrial inventory: multi-level racking, bins, bulk flow, and optimized site layouts. Secured, insured, and handled by dedicated RK teams.

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Value-added services

Kitting, packing, crating, light assembly, labeling, and shipping services performed on-site by trained operators to eliminate touches and reduce lead time.

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Foreign Trade Zone (FTZ)

U.S. Government-authorized FTZ for secured storage, duty deferral, and chain-of-custody handling of imported materials and components. Compliance handled end-to-end.

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Direct fulfillment — B2B & B2C

Retail and wholesale order fulfillment from warehoused inventory in client-branded packaging. eCommerce integration with major platforms. Client ERP systems integrated with RK's WMS.

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Installation & field service support

Dedicated facilities and personnel supporting field technicians: spare-parts inventory, time-critical order management, specialized crating, and on-campus white-glove delivery into customer facilities.

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Reverse logistics & asset recovery

Product recovery, restocking, light repair, spares return and redeployment. Chain-of-custody recovery and certified scrapping of equipment containing intellectual property.

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Specialized transportation

Dedicated equipment for fragile, high-value, and oversize freight. Hazardous-materials management. Time-critical and white-glove delivery assignments deployed as extensions of the customer's operation.

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Spare parts management & distribution

A core RK practice for three decades — dedicated service-parts operations for capital equipment customers: precision inventory positioning, time-critical order management, white-glove delivery to field engineers and customer sites worldwide.

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Warehouse to World — global freight forwarding

Ocean, air, and cross-border freight forwarding, customs brokerage, and drayage — paired with RK's FTZ facilities and Control Tower visibility for origin-to-dock continuity. Learn more →

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Freight brokerage

Domestic over-the-road and intermodal capacity from a vetted carrier network, managed inside RK's operating discipline and integrated with the rest of the customer's program. Learn more →

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Data Center Build Logistics

Heavy-haul of transformers and power equipment, white-glove GPU and server transport, near-site staging warehouses, and project sequencing for hyperscale, neocloud, and colocation campus builds. Learn more →

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Life Sciences Logistics

GDP-compliant cold-chain warehousing, validated transport (2–8°C, –20°C, –80°C, cryogenic), DSCSA serialization, clinical trial supply, and specialty cell & gene therapy logistics — with MintRX specialty pharmacy on the dispensing end. Learn more →

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Managed Transportation

An enterprise transportation management practice — capacity sourcing, lane design, RFP management, freight audit, and a unified CargoWise control tower — orchestrated alongside RK’s 3PL, forwarding, and brokerage on one platform of record. Learn more →

How We Work

A disciplined approach to mission-critical logistics.

Every RK engagement starts with deep customer discovery and ends with measurable operational metrics. Between them, a repeatable methodology refined over three decades of high-stakes industrial work.

  1. Discover

    We map your production rhythm, supplier base, and existing pain points with the leaders closest to the floor. No templates.

  2. Design

    A purpose-built operating plan — facility layout, systems integration, SOPs, staffing model — customized to your BOM and cadence.

  3. Stand up

    Structured go-live with paired training and parallel-operations safety nets so your production line never feels the handoff.

  4. Run & measure

    Daily operational cadence with transparent metrics, variance reporting, and a dedicated account leadership team. Continuous improvement built in.

  5. Scale

    As your volume and complexity grow, we expand capacity, geography, and capability in lock-step — without the operational friction that usually comes with change.

Industries

Built for the most demanding verticals.

RK's customers operate at the intersection of exacting tolerances, high asset values, and strict regulatory oversight. We built our operations to match.

Vertical · 01

Semiconductor equipment & FABs

Spare parts, tool support, installation logistics. Three decades of service to fab-critical supply chains.

Vertical · 02

Advanced mobility & EV

High-value component logistics and line-side delivery for electric and connected vehicle programs.

Vertical · 03

Energy storage & battery

EV battery storage and handling since 2014. Hazmat, regulatory compliance, and secure chain-of-custody.

Vertical · 04

High-precision electronics

Complex BOMs, calibrated equipment, and the zero-fault tolerance that this category demands.

Vertical · 05

Hyperscale & data center logistics

High-value server, storage, and networking gear — white-glove staging, rack-ready kitting, and scheduled deployment logistics for data-center build-outs.

Vertical · 06

Direct-to-consumer & B2B fulfillment

Client-branded fulfillment, warehouse replenishment, and eCommerce order handling across major platforms.

RK Innovation Center

Logistics for innovation, built with innovation.

The RK Innovation Center applies AI, automation, and integrated supply chain technology to every customer program — so customers get real-time inbound visibility, predictive exception management, and continuous operational intelligence alongside our purpose-designed 3PL+ services.

Real-time
Inbound visibility from origin port to dock door
AI-assisted
Predictive exception detection and triage
FTZ-native
Duty deferral integrated with operations
6σ+
Measured quality, continuously reported
We don't sell square feet. We sell the uptime of the production line we protect.
Joe MacLean — Chief Executive Officer, RK Logistics
Case Studies

The work, not the brochure.

Customer names are confidential. The work, the methodology, and the measurable outcomes are not. Six anonymized case studies from active RK programs across the verticals we serve.

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A Tuesday at 3:14 AM

The work, not the brochure.

At 3:14 AM Pacific, an inbound container at the Port of Long Beach showed a 27-hour dwell against a 6-hour expectation. The Control Tower flagged it. By 3:19 AM, our exception agent had a replacement carrier dispatched and the container moving. By 11:00 AM, the components were on the dock at our Pinal County, AZ inbound hub. The assembly plant never noticed. The customer's morning stand-up was about other things.

Anonymized operational vignette · February 2026 · Inbound Control Tower™ program

In Their Words

Customer voice. Roles anonymized by request.

“They're the only operator we trust to run inbound on a brand-new vehicle program. We don't have to manage them — they manage the program.”
VP Supply Chain · Tier-1 EV manufacturer
“Thirty-five years and we've never had to put a service-parts program out to bid. The math just keeps working.”
Director, Global Service Logistics · Semiconductor equipment leader
“The Control Tower is the first 3PL system we've used where the dashboard is actually current. Sixty-second visibility is real.”
Head of Inbound Logistics · Hyperscale data-center buildout
How We Price

Three pricing models. Pick the one that fits your program.

We don't hide our commercial stance. RK structures pricing three ways and we tell customers up front which one we'd recommend for their program shape.

Model 01

Open-book cost-plus

For dedicated managed programs. Operating cost passes through transparently with a margin layer that's negotiated, not hidden.

Best for: dedicated facilities, multi-year programs, complex BOMs.
Model 02

Fixed-fee per unit

Per-pallet, per-order, or per-shipment economics for high-volume fulfillment and freight programs. Predictable for procurement.

Best for: B2B/B2C fulfillment, freight brokerage, defined SKU sets.
Model 03

Outcome-based gainshare

Tied to OTIF, line-down hours avoided, or inventory accuracy. Aligns RK's incentives with the customer's operational scorecard.

Best for: Inbound Control Tower, mission-critical programs.
Operating FAQ

The five questions every supply chain leader asks first.

How do you onboard, and how long does it take?

Standard new-program stand-up runs eight to twelve weeks from signed scope to first live shipment, depending on facility build-out. Customers run alongside their incumbent operator in parallel until we hit OTIF and accuracy targets. Discover → Design → Stand-up → Run — the same disciplined sequence on every program.

Will you work with our ERP / WMS / TMS?

Yes — EDI, API, and flat-file integrations are standard. We've integrated with every major enterprise ERP, leading WMS platforms, and the freight forwarding TMS used in nine-figure programs. Our Innovation Center owns the integration layer so a customer's IT team isn't carrying it.

How transparent are you about cost?

For dedicated programs, we operate open-book. Customers see the labor model, capacity model, and cost build. For per-unit programs, the published rate sheet is the rate. We don't run hidden surcharges.

What happens when something goes wrong?

Honestly: in 35 years of running mission-critical programs, we've owned exceptions — missed scans, supplier delays, weather events. Our Inbound Control Tower is the system we built specifically because exceptions happen. Every program has a documented escalation path, an executive sponsor, and an after-action review for any high-severity event. Customers get the post-mortem the same week.

Are you on our approved vendor list?

RK holds ISO 9001, operates AS9100 and IATF 16949 scope at relevant facilities, is C-TPAT certified, an authorized FTZ operator, and Hazmat / DOT certified. CMMC alignment is in progress. Procurement teams should have everything they need for a standard supplier qualification packet on a 24-hour turn.

From the Floor

Real RK. Real customers, real facilities, real operators.

A few frames from inside the operation. Kato Road in Fremont, the spare-parts forklift cycle, OnTime Trucking on the East Coast, and our team at Battery Day with the City of Fremont.

Kato Road · Fremont, CA
Battery flagship facility
Spare parts · Fremont
35-year service-parts cycle
OnTime Trucking · NJ
Tri-state LTL fleet
Battery Day · Fremont
RK with City of Fremont

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