4PL & Managed Logistics
Your logistics, run as one managed program.
Some scopes are not a single move. They are a standing flow of equipment that has to be received, stored, tracked, and released to site on schedule, month after month. LGX runs that flow as a managed program: one team, one plan, one point of control across the logistics lifecycle.
Trust & proof
$700M+ in customer assets under logistics management.
More than $700 million in customer-owned equipment currently moves through LGX-managed warehousing and distribution programs. From inbound transportation and receiving through inventory oversight, release coordination, and final delivery, LGX serves as a single point of control across the logistics lifecycle.
What 4PL actually means
A 3PL runs your freight. A 4PL runs your logistics.
A 3PL executes tasks you define: a shipment, a warehouse, a lane. A 4PL takes the whole function, and the responsibility for the seams between tasks, where programs actually fail.
Programs fail in the seams between vendors. 4PL exists to remove the seams.
A vendor stack
You manage the freight broker, the warehouse, the drayage carrier, and the delivery crews yourself. Inventory truth lives in spreadsheets stitched from four systems. When a release date moves, every handoff is yours to re-plan.
One managed program
You hand LGX the flow. We manage inbound transportation, receiving, storage, inventory, releases, and final delivery as one scope, and report it as one program. When a date moves, we re-sequence around it.
Program scope
What an LGX-managed program covers.
Scoped to the flow you actually have. Hand over the whole lifecycle, or the stages that hurt.
- Inbound transportation. Carrier selection, scheduling, and tracking for everything flowing into the program, from domestic origins or international legs.
- Receiving & inspection. Every piece received, checked against the manifest, documented, and logged into inventory the day it lands.
- Storage & warehousing. Customer equipment held on LGX ground: laydown yard, covered storage, and the 50-ton in-yard crane for heavy pieces. Storage and warehousing →
- Inventory oversight. One live picture of what’s on the ground, what’s inbound, and what’s committed to which site and date.
- Release coordination. Releases planned against site readiness and sequenced so the site gets what it can set, in the order it can set it.
- Final delivery. From dock to site, including heavy and over-dimensional set pieces planned as proper moves, not parcel drops. Heavy lift OOG →
- Carrier & vendor management. The broker, drayage, and delivery relationships consolidated under one manager with one standard.
- Reporting & accountability. One report covers the program: received, on hand, released, delivered, and what it cost.
How it runs
From baseline to steady state.
Step 1 · Baseline the flow
What’s moving, from which origins, at what volumes, into which sites. Current vendors, current costs, current failure points. The baseline is the honest starting picture the program gets designed against.
Step 2 · Design the program
Receiving locations, storage plan, inventory control, release rules, carrier mix, and reporting cadence, agreed before the first load moves. You see the whole design, not a rate sheet.
Step 3 · Run the operations
LGX manages the day to day: inbound schedules, receiving, putaway, staging, and the releases the sites call for. Your team gets a single point of contact instead of a vendor list.
Step 4 · Report and improve
One report covers the program: what arrived, what’s on the ground, what released, what it cost. Reviewed on a cadence and tightened as volumes shift.
Asset-backed
Backed by our own ground and our own crane.
Managed programs need somewhere physical to happen. LGX runs its own storage and warehousing operation in Humble, Texas, with a laydown yard and an in-yard 50-ton crane, so customer equipment is received, handled, and staged by LGX people on LGX ground. Storage and warehousing →
For the heavy and over-dimensional pieces inside a program, the same team plans the lift, the permits, and the route. That is the point: the program and the hard moves inside it belong to one owner. Heavy lift OOG →
Who runs on 4PL
Built for equipment-heavy programs.
Data Center & Power
OEMs and EPCs shipping switchgear, transformers, and power equipment into multi-site buildouts on staggered schedules, where staging discipline decides the set date.
Energy & Midstream
Capital projects and turnarounds with long-lead equipment arriving ahead of the site, held and released in sequence instead of stacking up at the gate.
Industrial & OEM
Fabricators and manufacturers moving finished units into project sites in release order, with the heavy pieces planned as real moves.
Which page do you need
A standing program, or a single project?
4PL & Managed Logistics is the standing program: equipment flowing through warehousing and distribution under LGX control, month after month. If what you have is one large scope with a start and an end, a lift, a route, and a site, that is our core project and heavy-haul work. Project logistics 4PL →
Not sure which one you have? Send the scope either way. It’s the same team.
FAQ
4PL, answered.
What is the difference between a 3PL and a 4PL?
A 3PL executes defined logistics tasks: a shipment, a warehouse, a lane. A 4PL manages the logistics function itself: the vendors, the inventory, the schedule, and the reporting, with one team accountable for the outcome. LGX operates as a 4PL on managed programs and as the lead provider on project scopes.
Does LGX take ownership of our equipment?
No. The equipment stays yours. LGX manages the logistics around it: receiving, storage, inventory oversight, release coordination, and delivery. More than $700 million in customer-owned assets currently runs through LGX-managed programs on that model.
Can LGX take over an existing program mid-stream?
Yes. We baseline the current flow, take over vendor coordination in stages, and keep receiving and releases moving while the program transitions, so there is no stopped inventory and no gap in accountability.
Where do managed programs run?
Warehousing and staging run from our Humble, Texas operation in the Houston metro. Inbound and outbound transportation runs nationally and internationally, planned per program.
Ready to hand off the program?
Tell us what’s moving, where it lands, and what the sites need. We respond with a program design and a single point of control, not a rate sheet.
Or call us at 832 699 4540