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 takes that flow off your desk and runs it as one program: one team, one plan, one manager who owns it end to end.
The lifecycle we manage
- 01Inbound
- 02Receive
- 03Store
- 04Inventory
- 05Release
- 06Deliver
Assets under management
Your equipment. Our responsibility.
$700M+
in customer-owned equipment under LGX management
That equipment is not sitting still. It is arriving on inbound trucks, being checked against manifests, going into inventory, being staged, and being released to sites on dates those sites keep moving. Managing that flow — not any one shipment inside it — is the work a 4PL is hired to do.
Every piece stays yours. What LGX takes over is everything that has to happen around it, and the accountability for whether it happens on time.
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.
Today · without a 4PL
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.
- Broker
- Warehouse
- Drayage
- Delivery
Four contracts, four systems, and the gaps belong to you.
With LGX · 4PL
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.
- Broker
- Warehouse
- Drayage
- Delivery
One contract, one system of record, and the gaps belong to us.
Programs fail in the seams between vendors. 4PL exists to remove the seams.
Program scope
What an LGX-managed program covers.
Scoped to the flow you actually have. Hand over the whole lifecycle, or only the stages that hurt.
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01
Inbound transportation
Carrier selection, scheduling, and tracking for everything flowing into the program, from domestic origins or international legs.
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02
Receiving & inspection
Every piece received, checked against the manifest, documented, and logged into inventory the day it lands.
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03
Storage & warehousing
Customer equipment held on LGX ground: laydown yard, covered storage, and the 50-ton in-yard crane for heavy pieces.
Storage & warehousing → -
04
Inventory oversight
One live picture of what’s on the ground, what’s inbound, and what’s committed to which site and date.
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05
Release coordination
Releases planned against site readiness and sequenced so the site gets what it can set, in the order it can set it.
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06
Final delivery
From dock to site, including heavy and over-dimensional set pieces planned as proper moves, not parcel drops.
Heavy haul & OOG → -
07
Carrier & vendor management
The broker, drayage, and delivery relationships consolidated under one manager with one standard.
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08
Reporting & accountability
One report covers the program: received, on hand, released, delivered, and what it cost.
How it runs
From baseline to steady state.
Four stages, in order. Nothing moves until the design is agreed, and the design is built on your real numbers, not a template.
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01
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.
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02
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.
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03
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.
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04
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.
A managed program needs somewhere physical to happen. Ours is in Humble, Texas: an LGX laydown yard and covered storage where customer equipment is received, handled, and staged by LGX people, on LGX ground, against the program’s schedule rather than a landlord’s.
The 50-ton in-yard crane means heavy pieces get handled in house. And when one of them has to move, the team that planned the lift, the permits, and the route is the same team running the program. That is the whole idea: the program and the hard moves inside it belong to one owner.
Who runs on 4PL
Built for equipment-heavy programs.
The pattern is the same everywhere it works: long-lead equipment landing before the site is ready for it, on a schedule nobody fully controls.
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.
Data center & power →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.
Energy & midstream →Industrial & OEM
Fabricators and manufacturers moving finished units into project sites in release order, with the heavy pieces planned as real moves.
Industrial / plant →Which page do you need
A standing program, or a single project?
You’re here
A standing program
Equipment flowing through warehousing and distribution under LGX control, month after month. Inbound, receiving, inventory, releases, and delivery managed as one scope and reported as one program.
Different page
A single project
One large scope with a start and an end: a lift, a route, a site, and a date everything has to converge on. That is our core project and heavy-haul work.
Project & heavy-haul logistics →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 when you are
Ready to hand off the program?
Tell us what’s moving, where it lands, and what the sites are waiting on. You get a program design and one manager who owns it, not a rate sheet.
Or call us at 832 699 4540.