A Platform Built for International Shipment Planning & Execution

3rdwave’s cloud platform is what shippers have been missing: a scaffold for planning shipments, gaining visibility at the Product/ SKU level, and proactive alerts across your organization.

Where Planning Meets Execution

Every step is systematized with clearly defined relationships across multiple dimensions. This creates a plan/expectation at every point in the inbound process to measure against, enabling the outcome everyone wants: managing by exception.

Plan Routes and Milestones

Create detailed shipment plans with defined milestones to measure against, enabling powerful exception alerting and handling.

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Plan Schedules and Timing

Optimal execution relies on working back from required in-warehouse dates to create workable schedules that can be updated to highlight shipments that need attention.

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Plan and Measure Costing

Integration with freight contracts enables an estimate for each shipment execution that can then be married to the freight invoice for easy review and approval.

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Comprehensive Process Control

Your import process is extensive and requires an equally broad platform. 3rdwave manages the entire lifecycle of your shipments, from Pre-shipment to Destination. It also manages the customs
compliance for ISFs, Entries, and PGAs.

Real-Time Enhanced Visibility

3rdwave is natively integrated with carriers (ocean, air, and rail) and terminals to get the latest shipment updates. It easily connects to other carriers (like drayage services) and forwarders to get the most information into the platform and enable the best decisions.

Pervasive Product-Level Visibility

3rdwave creates product-level visibility throughout your organization across many dimensions. The Product is a central organizing object, enabling the distribution of shipment costs, date management, duty calculations, and CO2 tracking.

Integrated Freight
Contracts

Planning and executing is incomplete without understanding the cost implications of the decisions you need to make. Freight contracts seamlessly integrated into both the planning and execution modules enable you to plan for cost implications and then measure during execution.

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Evolve Your
Transportation Folder

Most organizations still use hardcopy folders with checklists to aggregate trade documentation and dates, passing them among internal functions as part of the import process to instill systematic validation and control. By design, the 3rdwave platform transports you into the digital age, eliminating the folder while making information available to all stakeholders.

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Centralized Forwarder Management

The 3rdwave platform is a one-stop shop for centralizing all information and process control across all your forwarders and service providers. Coordinate dray deliveries, automatically track shipments’ location and status, and understand freight costs and invoices—all on one platform.

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Intelligent Alerting

Carrier and terminal status updates are integrated with 3rdwave’s comprehensive planning capability, creating an alerting environment that filters out the noise to develop real visibility, proactivity, and responsiveness.

Get alerted to the following:

When critical shipments will miss their in-warehouse dates.
When you incur incremental costs like demurrage and detention.
When you need to file ISFs and Customs entries.
When bookings haven’t been made.
When documents haven’t been received.
And MUCH more!

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Receive & Validate
Shipment Data

Designed to accept comprehensive international transportation documents and data in whatever format your forwarders and vendors provide: XML, API, XLS, CSV, etc. Data is validated against expectations whenever it is ingested, highlighting discrepancies immediately.

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BY DESIGN

Mode: International

3rdwave is explicitly designed to manage international transportation. Whether shipping by ocean, air, rail, or drayage, this platform has you covered.

Simply the Best Platform for International Shippers

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TESTIMONIALS

What Our Customers Are Saying

"3rdwave has been instrumental in helping us minimize demurrage and detention fees, ensuring our shipments move smoothly and efficiently."

Doug Shaffer

Director of Transportation and Trade Compliance

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"We’ve witnessed a tangible improvement in our operational efficiency since adopting 3rdwave, with a noticeable increase in shipment processing speed."

Alicia Abercrombie Koehler

Director of Operations

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“As a self-filer, 3rdwave has helped us automate 99% of the ISF filing and entry creation processes to reduce costly errors.”

Genie Thiergartner

International Trade Compliance Manager

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"3rdwave has been a great partner for our company, supporting us as we navigate the complexities of global trade with ease and precision. The accuracy and efficiency of our customs processes have never been better."

Wanda Raper

Director Customs Compliance North America

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