Custom Distribution & Logistics Services
Custom supply chain solutions for the movement, storage, and handling of your goods
Murphy provides customized, value-added logistics solutions tailored to suit your business goals.
Murphy understands that no two customers are alike. Every supply chain is unique and can’t be optimized through run-of-the-mill logistics services. While other logistics service providers work on economies of scale, we leverage our capabilities to match specific customer demands. We’ve formed many long-term partnerships with clients that have diverse industry backgrounds.
The Murphy Promise: A Custom Solution For Every Challenge
More than a century of experience has taught us to understand our customers’ customers. Our portfolio of clients includes both B2C and B2B businesses of all scales and types. We are deeply invested in building inventory that solves a wide range of custom logistics challenges.
For omnichannel deliveries, we provide last-mile delivery, pick and pack, and reverse logistics. We also offer value-added distribution, including labeling, kitting, inspection, and compliance.
We are certified to handle a wide range of goods ranging from industrial machinery to cold chain logistics. We form long-term partnerships with customers who know we are happy to solve their unique logistics needs.
Our custom distribution services include:
- Transload and Cross-docking Services
- Full Truckload Shipping
- Local and National Transportation Solutions
- Pool Distribution
- Flatbed Shipping
- LTL Shipping
- Rail Shipping
- Rail Siding
- Kitting Services
- Pick-and-Pack
- Customs Support
- Extensive Order Fulfillment Options
Flexible Distribution Partnerships
Our contract distribution services are designed to provide our clients with built-in flexibility to help them adapt to seasonal demand, new market entry, or any changes to their inventory needs. One of the hallmarks of our approach is the long-term partnerships we create with clients, providing them with dedicated space, reliable transportation capacity, and trusted operational support. As a 3PL provider and an asset-based operator, we integrate warehousing, transportation, rail, and distribution into a single cohesive solution. Thanks to this philosophy, we ensure clients gain cost-effective, flexible distribution services that scale with their ever-evolving supply chain requirements.
Custom Distribution: Why Choose Us
Murphy 15 Facilities with 5m+ square feet across the Twin Cities metropolitan area, Kansas City, Avon, New York and Ames Iowa with 5million square feet of dry, temperature-controlled, outdoor, and food-grade warehouse space. We operate an extensive fleet of modern cargo trucks with in-house staff and real-time monitoring to ensure hyper-local deliveries are consistently accurate.
Murphy 3PL Network
Murphy takes pride in its partnerships in the industry. We have one of the largest networks of 3PL brokerage partners, giving our clients the best price discovery in the market. As one of the largest commercial rail transloading services providers in the Upper Midwest, we can provide low-cost, flexible rail hauls for our clients.
Customized Inventory Control
The Murphy Warehouse Management System is one of the best in class, where clients can remotely access all information on their assets and make real-time decisions. Vendor data is updated in real-time across all stages of the supply chain.
Frequently Asked Questions
This refers to tailored logistics solutions that are designed to meet the specific needs of each client’s supply chain. Unlike standardized services, it provides flexibility, value-added features, and closer alignment to the client’s business objectives. Murphy focuses on custom distribution because we want to ensure we build our strategies around each customer, rather than trying to force them to accept one-size-fits-all models.
When Murphy designs a custom distribution plan, we look at the client holistically. We evaluate not just their product mix, current shipping patterns, and storage requirements, but their market, and what it takes for our client to win in their space. We always look for ways to help our clients improve how their goods flow in our space. As longtime specialists in the storage of Food & Beverage, Industrial, Medical, and Consumer Goods, we have a solid idea of what the industry-specific challenges for each of our clients are, and work to identify opportunity for positive change in their supply chain. Approaching clients as a partner (rather than just another vendor) allows us to tailor a custom distribution strategy that provides meaningful positive change, scales well, and works reliably.
In particular, the food and beverage, medical, consumer goods, and industrial manufacturing sectors value custom distribution because it is the best fit for their regulatory and operational complexity. On the other hand, omnichannel businesses gain advantages through integrated pick-and-pack, kitting, and last-mile distribution support. No matter the industry, Murphy’s ability to support bulk shipments, heavy-haul moves, and regulated industries make our custom distribution capabilities valuable to our clients.
Kitting, labeling, inspection, packaging, compliance support, and pick-and-pack capabilities are among the many services Murphy provides. These help improve clients’ operations by reducing their in-house labor requirements and improving their speed-to-market. With integration into our warehousing and transportation network, clients gain a seamless link between these value-added services and core logistics.
We utilize a Vendor Management System alongside real-time monitoring tools to track goods at multiple points in the supply chain. Our trained in-house staff also ensure that our processes remain consistent, compliant, and customer-focused. This is why we can report a more-than-99% accuracy rate for inventory.
Contract warehousing is centered on long-term, dedicated storage agreements often with multi-year commitments. On the other hand, custom distribution focuses on the movement, handling, and value-added services that connect products to their destinations. Many of our clients choose to use both solutions to create a strategy that combines storage stability with flexible distribution.