UPS will close two facilities in Kansas later this year as part of an ongoing push to streamline its U.S. network, a spokesperson told Supply Chain Dive.
The carrier's location at 2601 East Wyatt Earp Blvd. in Dodge City is shutting down May 20. Additionally, UPS is shuttering a facility at 331 NE Industrial Lane in Lawrence on June 17.
The company has not disclosed the number of workers that will be impacted by the decision, and no Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act letter has been published on the matter as of Monday.
"We are working to place as many employees as possible in other positions," UPS spokesperson Karen Tomaszewski Hill said in an email. "We will work with those who may be impacted throughout the process to provide support."
The closures will add to operations cuts UPS has deployed since last year, with the carrier closing several sortation shifts throughout the U.S. as it makes its network more automated. Hill said the carrier's plans for the two Kansas facilities specifically are tied to a roughly $1 billion efficiency push executives mentioned during a January earnings call.
"The changes underway include reassessing a small percentage of our U.S. operations," UPS said in a statement on its website. "Our employees and customers remain a top priority for us during this process, and we will continue to provide industry-leading service to customers in every community we serve."
Rival FedEx has been undergoing its own operations overhaul, closing several ship centers as part of its Network 2.0 initiative to merge its separate Express and Ground networks.
