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Best 3PL Companies in Kansas City (2026)

This list ranks the 10 third-party logistics companies that run at least one warehouse in the Kansas City metro, on the Missouri side from North Kansas City to Independence and Grandview and on the Kansas side from Kansas City, KS to Lenexa, Olathe and Edgerton, and each warehouse location was checked on the firm's own website. Firms are compared on local warehouses, network size, order minimums, pricing model and services, and the comparison table and ranked cards give those facts firm by firm.

  • 10 companies ranked
  • 28 warehouses in Kansas City between them
  • Updated September 2026

By the editorial team · How we rank

Illustration: rail intermodal yard with containers stacked on railcars

Top 3PLs in Kansas City at a glance

  1. 1Smart WarehousingFood and consumer brands needing ambient and cold space in one 3PL
  2. 2LineageFood companies needing frozen or chilled space near ports
  3. 3Maersk Warehousing & DistributionImporters pairing ocean freight with US warehousing
  4. 4AmericoldFood brands needing frozen, chilled or ambient storage at scale
  5. 5M&M Quality SolutionsOmnichannel brands needing ambient and frozen storage in KC
  6. 6Fast FulfillmentDTC and Amazon brands wanting central-US ground reach
  7. 7Wake LogisticsSmall and mid-size brands wanting a hands-on Kansas City 3PL
  8. 8Midpoint NationalBrands wanting a long-running, family-owned KC 3PL
  9. 9MetroPark WarehousesFood, beverage, alcohol and CPG brands shipping to retail
  10. 10FulfillMeEcommerce and Amazon sellers wanting a South Florida node

Compare Kansas City 3PLs side by side

Local warehouses, network size, order minimums and pricing model for every company on the list.

#CompanyBest forIn Kansas CityNetworkOrder minimumPricing
1Smart WarehousingFood and consumer brands needing ambient and cold space in one 3PL7 warehouses35 totalNot publishedCustom quote
2LineageFood companies needing frozen or chilled space near ports4 warehouses480 totalNot publishedCustom quote
3Maersk Warehousing & DistributionImporters pairing ocean freight with US warehousing2 warehouses114 totalNot publishedCustom quote
4AmericoldFood brands needing frozen, chilled or ambient storage at scale1 warehouse192 totalNot publishedCustom quote
5M&M Quality SolutionsOmnichannel brands needing ambient and frozen storage in KC3 warehouses5 totalNot publishedCustom quote
6Fast FulfillmentDTC and Amazon brands wanting central-US ground reach1 warehouse1 total100+ orders/moCustom quote
7Wake LogisticsSmall and mid-size brands wanting a hands-on Kansas City 3PL1 warehouse1 totalNot publishedCustom quote
8Midpoint NationalBrands wanting a long-running, family-owned KC 3PL1 warehouse2 totalNot publishedCustom quote
9MetroPark WarehousesFood, beverage, alcohol and CPG brands shipping to retail7 warehouses7 totalNot publishedCustom quote
10FulfillMeEcommerce and Amazon sellers wanting a South Florida node1 warehouse3 totalNot publishedCustom quote

The 10 best 3PL companies in Kansas City

1

Smart Warehousing

Food and consumer brands needing ambient and cold space in one 3PL

Visit smartwarehousing.com

Seven Kansas City-area sites: five buildings in Edgerton, one on E 94th St in Kansas City, MO, and an underground site in Independence that holds ambient, refrigerated, frozen and sub-zero goods. The Kill Creek Rd building in Edgerton is AIB-audited and FDA-registered for food storage. It fits food and consumer brands that want ambient and cold inventory with one 3PL headquartered in Overland Park.

Strengths

  • 35+ warehouse locations stated nationally; founded in 2001
  • Named integrations include Amazon, Walmart, Shopify, NetSuite and SPS Commerce
  • Runs its own SWIMS warehouse system with Smart Visibility

Worth knowing

  • Quote-only pricing; no published rates or order minimum
  • DTC ecommerce
  • B2B and retail
  • Retail EDI compliance
  • Kitting and assembly
  • Returns
  • LTL and FTL freight
  • Drayage
  • Cold chain
  • Food grade
  • Bulky and heavy
  • Value-added services
2

Lineage

Food companies needing frozen or chilled space near ports

Visit onelineage.com

Four cold storage sites on the Kansas side, among them an automated 437,353 sq ft regional distribution center in Olathe and a 656,122 sq ft regional center in Edwardsville, both with blast freezing, plus an Edgerton public warehouse with railcar siding, co-packing and kitting. It fits food companies that need frozen or chilled storage with customs brokerage and drayage from the same operator.

Strengths

  • 480+ warehouses stated across North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific
  • Olathe and Edwardsville hold about 23.9M and 21.6M cu ft of capacity
  • D2C cold-chain fulfillment with Amazon, Walmart.com and Costco.com connections

Worth knowing

  • Built for food and temperature-sensitive products
  • Quote-only pricing; no published order minimum
  • Cold chain
  • Food grade
  • DTC ecommerce
  • Subscription boxes
  • B2B and retail
  • Retail EDI compliance
  • Kitting and assembly
  • Contract packaging
  • LTL and FTL freight
  • Cross-dock and transload
  • Drayage
  • International
  • FTZ and bonded
  • Last mile
  • Value-added services
3

Maersk Warehousing & Distribution

Importers pairing ocean freight with US warehousing

Visit maersk.com

Two Kansas City sites: Building 151 in Edgerton, 210,482 sq ft with 26 dock doors, and a 24,000 sq ft warehouse on N Seymour Ave in Kansas City, MO. It fits importers that want the ocean carrier's US warehouse network to run transload, deconsolidation, retail distribution and ecommerce orders.

Strengths

  • About 114 US warehouses listed, each with address and square footage
  • In-house Maersk warehouse management system
  • Cold chain, hazmat and returns among its network services

Worth knowing

  • Some buildings in the network serve a single customer
  • Quote-only pricing
  • DTC ecommerce
  • B2B and retail
  • Retail EDI compliance
  • Cross-dock and transload
  • Kitting and assembly
  • Value-added services
  • Cold chain
  • Hazmat
  • LTL and FTL freight
  • International
  • Returns
4

Americold

Food brands needing frozen, chilled or ambient storage at scale

Visit americold.com

One Kansas City, MO warehouse on E 147th St with four temperature zones (ambient, cooler, freezer and deep freeze) and import, export and bonded services. It fits food producers that store frozen or chilled goods for import or export and want every temperature zone under one roof.

Strengths

  • 192 warehouses stated across the US and Canada; founded in 1903
  • SQF certification stated for 90%+ of its US and Canada facilities
  • DTC cold-chain fulfillment from five US sites, tracked with SmarTrakr

Worth knowing

  • Facility pages publish no square footage
  • Quote-only pricing
  • Cold chain
  • Food grade
  • DTC ecommerce
  • B2B and retail
  • Retail EDI compliance
  • Kitting and assembly
  • Returns
  • LTL and FTL freight
  • Cross-dock and transload
  • Drayage
  • International
  • FTZ and bonded
  • Value-added services
5

M&M Quality Solutions

Omnichannel brands needing ambient and frozen storage in KC

Visit mmqualitysolutions.com

Three Kansas City sites: cold and frozen storage in the SubTropolis caves, added in October 2025 with Foreign-Trade Zone approval, plus warehouses on N Congress Ave in Kansas City, MO and Fairfax Trafficway in Kansas City, KS. It fits omnichannel brands that want ambient and frozen stock in one metro.

Strengths

  • Founded in 2003; five sites including York, PA and Salt Lake City
  • States 99%+ on-time shipping and 99%+ inventory accuracy, with SLA tracking
  • Retail compliance, EDI and API retailer links, kitting, subscription boxes and display production

Worth knowing

  • Facility sizes not published
  • Quote-only pricing
  • DTC ecommerce
  • B2B and retail
  • Retail EDI compliance
  • Kitting and assembly
  • Subscription boxes
  • Returns
  • Cross-dock and transload
  • Cold chain
  • FTZ and bonded
  • Value-added services
6

Fast Fulfillment

DTC and Amazon brands wanting central-US ground reach

Visit fastfulfillment.com

A Lenexa fulfillment center with FDA-registered, third-party audited food-grade storage and a 12 PM Central same-day shipping cutoff, Monday to Friday. It fits DTC and Amazon brands shipping 100 or more orders a month that want to fulfill from the middle of the country.

Strengths

  • States a 99.7% order accuracy rate
  • 11 named sales-channel integrations, including TikTok Shop, Etsy and Walmart
  • FBA prep, forward storage and Seller Fulfilled Prime support, with FIFO, FEFO and lot tracking

Worth knowing

  • Ambient only; no refrigerated or frozen storage
  • Says it works best with brands shipping 100+ orders a month
  • DTC ecommerce
  • B2B and retail
  • Amazon FBA prep
  • Kitting and assembly
  • Subscription boxes
  • Returns
  • Cross-dock and transload
  • Food grade
7

Wake Logistics

Small and mid-size brands wanting a hands-on Kansas City 3PL

Visit wakelogistics.com

A warehouse and fulfillment center at 940 Osage Ave in Kansas City, KS, the firm's headquarters, with pallet racking, shelf and bulk storage on RAMP WMS. It fits small and mid-size brands selling to retailers that need EDI purchase orders, ASNs and UCC-128 labels handled next to their DTC orders.

Strengths

  • States a guaranteed 99.9% order accuracy
  • Subscription box assembly, kitting, custom packaging and gift wrap
  • Shopify, Amazon, WooCommerce and ShipStation connections, with a real-time client portal

Worth knowing

  • Single warehouse; building size not published
  • Quote-only pricing
  • DTC ecommerce
  • B2B and retail
  • Retail EDI compliance
  • Amazon FBA prep
  • Kitting and assembly
  • Subscription boxes
  • Returns
  • Value-added services
8

Midpoint National

Brands wanting a long-running, family-owned KC 3PL

Visit midpt.com

A 70,000+ sq ft distribution center on Southwest Blvd in Kansas City, KS, with 11 dock doors, conveyors and 3,500 flow-rail pick locations, backed by a 100,000 sq ft warehouse for backup inventory. Founded in 1988 and family-owned, it fits ecommerce and Amazon sellers that want FBA prep, kitting and contract packaging from one local operator.

Strengths

  • Flat-rate storage priced by rack or flow location, with no peak-season surcharges
  • Shopify, BigCommerce, WooCommerce and Amazon, plus API, EDI, CSV and flat-file order feeds
  • Subscription boxes and returns processing

Worth knowing

  • Address of the backup warehouse not published
  • Quote-only pricing
  • DTC ecommerce
  • B2B and retail
  • Amazon FBA prep
  • Kitting and assembly
  • Subscription boxes
  • Returns
  • Contract packaging
9

MetroPark Warehouses

Food, beverage, alcohol and CPG brands shipping to retail

Visit metroparkwarehouses.com

Seven buildings in Kansas City, North Kansas City, Kansas City, KS and Grandview, from 146,000 to 409,172 sq ft, six of them rail served. Four hold food-grade space and four are bonded for wine and spirits. It fits food, beverage, alcohol and CPG brands moving pallets and cases into retail.

Strengths

  • Kansas City public warehousing since 1970
  • AIB, SQF and FDA certified; TTB bonded; FDA-licensed pharmaceutical 3PL and wholesale drug distributor
  • Retail compliance, EDI, API and FTP connections, drayage and drop-trailer service

Worth knowing

  • Small-parcel pick and pack is listed only at the Grandview building
  • Quote-only pricing
  • DTC ecommerce
  • B2B and retail
  • Retail EDI compliance
  • Food grade
  • LTL and FTL freight
  • Drayage
  • Cross-dock and transload
10

FulfillMe

Ecommerce and Amazon sellers wanting a South Florida node

Visit fulfillme.com

A Midwest fulfillment center on Erie St in North Kansas City, one of three the firm runs alongside Florida and Tennessee. It fits ecommerce and marketplace sellers on Amazon, Walmart, TikTok Shop or Temu that want a central node in a three-site network.

Strengths

  • Founded in 2006
  • FBA prep, subscription boxes, kitting and returns
  • Retail-compliant labeling, palletizing and routing for wholesale orders

Worth knowing

  • Building size not published
  • Quote-only pricing
  • DTC ecommerce
  • B2B and retail
  • Amazon FBA prep
  • Kitting and assembly
  • Subscription boxes
  • Returns

Why brands fulfill from Kansas City

KC SmartPort, the region’s industrial business attraction group, says Kansas City reaches 90% of the contiguous US in two days or less. Four major interstates cross the metro, which KC SmartPort credits with 30% more interstate miles per capita than any other major US metro.

Rail and air sit on top of the road network. Four Class I railroads and four intermodal parks serve the region, and KC SmartPort says Kansas City International handles more air cargo than any other airport in a six-state region. For imports, the Kansas City Foreign Trade Zone covers 32 counties, moves about $3 billion in goods a year and holds 450 million sq ft of approved FTZ space.

For staffing, about 230,500 people work in trade, transportation and utilities in the Kansas City MO-KS metro (August 2026, preliminary), and KC SmartPort counts more than 205,000 manufacturing and logistics workers in a region it ranks among the top 15 US industrial markets. Set against St. Louis, Kansas City has fewer Class I railroads, four to the six North American Class I railroads that serve St. Louis, and a smaller trade, transportation and utilities workforce than the about 258,600 in the St. Louis metro.

Questions to ask a Kansas City 3PL

  1. Is the building that would hold my stock on the Kansas or the Missouri side of the metro?
  2. Is my inventory going into an underground cave site or an above-ground building, and what temperature and humidity does each hold?
  3. Which railroad serves your building, and can it receive rail cars directly?
  4. Is the site inside the Kansas City Foreign Trade Zone, and who files the zone admissions?
  5. What is your daily parcel cutoff, and how many transit days does ground take to each coast?
  6. Which body audits your food-grade space, and is that space ambient only or refrigerated too?

Kansas City 3PL FAQ

How much does a 3PL in Kansas City cost?

All 10 companies on this list price by quote, so costs come from proposals rather than rate cards. Fast Fulfillment itemizes receiving, storage, pick and pack, shipping and value-added services, and Midpoint National prices storage flat per rack or flow location with no peak-season surcharges.

Are Kansas City 3PL warehouses in Kansas or Missouri?

Both: 4 of the 10 run buildings on each side of the state line (Smart Warehousing, MetroPark Warehouses, Maersk and M&M Quality Solutions). Lineage, Midpoint National, Fast Fulfillment and Wake Logistics are on the Kansas side only, while Americold and FulfillMe are in Missouri only.

Can one Kansas City warehouse cover the whole country?

Within two days, most of it: KC SmartPort says Kansas City reaches 90% of the contiguous US in two days or less.

Which Kansas City 3PLs have cold storage?

4 of the 10 publish refrigerated or frozen space in the metro: Smart Warehousing in its Independence caves, Lineage in Olathe, Edwardsville and Edgerton, Americold on E 147th St, and M&M Quality Solutions in the SubTropolis caves. Fast Fulfillment's food-grade storage is ambient only.

Which Kansas City 3PLs do Amazon FBA prep?

4 of the 10 list FBA prep: Midpoint National, Fast Fulfillment, Wake Logistics and FulfillMe. Fast Fulfillment also supports Seller Fulfilled Prime.

Which Kansas City 3PLs handle B2B and retail orders?

All 10 list B2B or retail distribution, and 7 list retail EDI compliance: Smart Warehousing, MetroPark Warehouses, Lineage, Americold, Maersk, M&M Quality Solutions and Wake Logistics. Midpoint National takes EDI order feeds without listing retail compliance.

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