AI-Powered Supply Chain Execution
Introducing
‍3rdwave AI for the Global Supply Chain
Generative and agentic AI now directly impact live supply chain execution. 3rdwave connects your corporate language model to real products and shipments, turning AI from a reporting tool into an operational partner that understands current events and available actions.
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“Integrating 3rdwave into our daily operations has streamlined our entire workflow, giving us real-time visibility and control over our shipments and compliance processes.”
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DOUG SHAFFER
Director of Transportation and Trade Compliance
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE THAT ACTUALLY WORKS

Understanding Before Intelligence

AI can’t reason about what isn’t explicitly modeled. 3rdwave defines expected movement, execution, and deviation — giving AI the operational context it needs to drive earlier, grounded decisions.
Knowing What Should Happen Next
Causal Chain: Cause & Effect
Knowing How Reality Should Be Presented
Completeness: Nothing Is Missing
THE POWER OF AI ACROSS YOUR SUPPLY CHAIN
The New Formula for Operational Control
& Predictive Precision
Data
Events
Intelligence
Action
Planning That's Built on Your Reality
3rdwave builds plans from real operational relationships and constraints, modeling products, shipments, and lanes so expectations are explicit from the start and execution remains feasible, compliant, and aligned as conditions change.
All shipments, modes, & carriers in one model
Product- and SKU-level visibility to delivery
All documents tied directly to shipments
Model, monitor, and update in real time
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Continuous Adaptation as Execution Shifts
When execution deviates from plan, 3rdwave shows what changed, why it matters, and which products and commitments are now at risk — allowing teams to intervene early and mitigate issues before they cascade, rather than reacting late in crisis mode.
Immediate visibility into what's changed
Early identification of at-risk shipments
Impacts traced across plans and execution
Intervene before issues cascade into failures
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Execute With Context & Consequence
From purchase order to final delivery, 3rdwave gives purchasing, sales, transportation, compliance, and operations a shared causal model — so each function understands expectations and makes decisions with awareness of downstream impact.
One execution model from PO to delivery
Alignment across sales, purchasing, and ops
Visibility into downstream impacts
Context-aware execution to limit errors
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Enjoy the Freedom to Ask Any Question
By maintaining a complete operational model and supporting data across all relevant dimensions, 3rdwave gives leaders the freedom to ask any question with confidence that the system can support meaningful analysis and action.
A complete operational model
Answers without stitching data
Analysis grounded in execution
Confident decisions backed by data
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THE BENEFITS OF 3RDWAVE AI
Evolve to Become Intelligent, Decisive, & Reliable

3rdwave connects products, shipments, rules, constraints and events into one digital picture, enabling teams to see what is happening compared to expectation, what is affected, and what decisions actually matter.

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Digitally Articulate Customer Service (and Reduce Risk) By Design

Customer commitments aren’t tracked in spreadsheets — they’re tied directly to live execution. Service levels become explicit, measurable, and protectable before risk turns into missed promises.

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Surface Systemic Risk — And Intervene at the Appropriate Level

When deviations are connected across shipments and products, patterns emerge. 3rdwave turns recurring execution breakdowns into management signals — enabling structural correction instead of repeated reaction.

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Accelerate Your Company's Cycles for Planning and Decision-Making

Build shipment execution plans grounded in real constraints, customer demands, lead times, and compliance requirements — reducing constant replanning as execution evolves.

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Prevent Compliance Failures By Design

Compliance isn’t “linked” to operations — it's generated from validated operational data. Every filing is derived from the same verified product and shipment model — eliminating errors, inconsistencies, delays, and penalties.

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Control Execution, Control Costs

Port penalties and billing errors emerge when shipments aren’t actively managed. 3rdwave tracks container status and free days in real time — and validates invoices against how the shipment actually moved.

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Free Up Working Capital in Transit

Execution visibility reduces uncertainty. When expectations and reality are aligned, inventory moves with fewer surprises and less buffer.

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Keep Transportation and Compliance Aligned

One shared operational model ensures movements, documents, and regulatory filings reflect the same underlying reality — eliminating cross-functional disconnect, data silos, and risk.

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Decide With Confidence, Not Debate

When expectations and execution are visible to everyone, decisions move faster. Teams act from a verified operational picture — not competing spreadsheets.

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DRIVE STRATEGIC IMPACT WITH 3RDWAVE

Turn Complexity Into Reliable Execution

Make the journey from  operational clarity to confident action — powered by 3rdwave.

Stay Ahead With Exception Management

Identify at-risk shipments that require immediate attention
Take proactive steps to mitigate issues
Keep shipments on track and stakeholders informed

Work With Your Partners, Not Around Them

Seamlessly integrates with all
LSPs and partners
Easily share standardized and consistent data
Direct communication with all stakeholders ensures alignment.

Automate Customs & Compliance

Work operations and customs
from one core data set.
Take control of your ISF process.
Manage all your compliance requirements

Prevent Avoidable Costs From Emerging

Quickly digest requests and knowledgeably respond
Easily gain context into each shipment and corporate demands
Improve organizational visibility into product availability

Respond Instantly to Stakeholder Questions

Eliminate demurrage and
detention charges
Reduce your customs brokerage costs by more than 20 percent
Audit your freight invoices in real-time to uncover mis-invoicing

Make Smarter Decisions, Faster

Understand shipment context
Translate between shipment and product or SKU
Expedite urgent shipments or products to meet customer needs
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Because 3rdwave’s platform works with standardized data that serves all stakeholders inside and outside the organization, here are some of the things you can accomplish:
Automated Customs Management
Elevate your trade compliance game and dramatically reduce work effort by automating the translation of your operations data into that of customs.
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Master Data Management
Gain control of all of your Product- and Account-related data to support trade compliance needs, such as HTS codes, Countries of Origin, MIDs, and more!
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Shipment Planning
Coordinate with your vendors, carriers, and forwarders to establish meaningful execution plans against which you can monitor progress and get alerted to delays.
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Shipment Execution
Monitor your shipments from origin to destination with integrated air and ocean visibility to gain real-time updates against your schedule.
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Inbound Management
Gain process control and product-level visibility throughout each step with real-time alerts and integrated ocean container and terminal messages.
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Freight Contract Management
Upgrade your team’s ability to understand the cost, performance, and invoicing for every leg and journey of every single shipment.
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Port Management
Are your container pickups occurring on a first-in-first-out basis?  Be smarter with your port pickups and container returns by gaining visibility into which containers have free days remaining and which will enter a penalty phase.  
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ISF Management
COMING SOON
Reduce unexpected penalties while bringing control and visibility to your ISF submittal process by ensuring ISFs are submitted on time and with correct, validated data.
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Our Blueprint

Most supply chain artificial intelligence fails because it can’t see the full picture. 3rdwave AI was built to change that.

We structure the data behind every shipment — orders, products, movements, and rules

We connect every event across transportation, compliance, and execution

We give AI the cause-and-effect context it needs to deliver confident, coordinated action

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    TESTIMONIALS
    What Our Customers Are Saying
    Doug Shaffer
    "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
    Container Ship
    Alicia Abercrombie Koehler
    "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
    Container Ship
    Genie Thiergartner
    “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
    Container Ship
    Wanda Raper
    "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
    Container Ship
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