When you have a go-live date your one developer can’t hit, we take over before the deadline does.
3 Strand Solutions is the outsourced software department for freight brokers and 3PLs, regional carriers, warehousing and fulfillment providers, and maritime and port-services companies whose freight runs on a TMS, WMS, dispatch, or customs system they can no longer staff.
Why 3 Strand Solutions?
You said yes to the customer. Then you turned to the one person who knows how the system actually works.
Status events must post to the shipper’s platform by the first of the quarter. Every entry needs a ten-digit HTS code from the day the de minimis channel closes. The carrier scorecard switches to electronic DVIRs next month. The alternative to yes is losing the account — so you said yes.
The spec has a date. Your system doesn’t have a path.
A customized TMS, a WMS configured for the last customer, a dispatch board built in Access in 2009, EDI maps nobody else has opened, and the spreadsheet that reconciles everything. It works — until someone else’s date arrives.
One person holds it all. There are twenty things ahead of it in the queue.
Sometimes the system can’t do it. Often there is exactly one person who could make it work, and they are already late on the last request. Occasionally they have already given notice.
Hire, outsource to the vendor, hire a freelancer, or decline the customer.
Hiring is a multi-quarter search for skills your local market doesn’t produce. The TMS vendor quotes customization at enterprise prices on an enterprise timeline, if at all. A freelancer is one single point of failure replacing another. Declining the requirement means declining the customer.
Your customers are consolidating — and judging the survivors on technology.
Sources: 31st Annual Third-Party Logistics Study (NTT DATA, Penske Logistics, Dr. C. John Langley); Deep Current research as reported by Supply & Demand Chain Executive, May 2026.
Not a project shop. The software department you were never going to be able to hire.
We take custody of the systems that move and bill your freight: we build the integration against the customer’s date, document what the one team member (the “keeper” who has all of the institutional knowledge in their head) knows while we do it, and leave you with an additional external team that can take the next spec. Three rungs, three price forms, none of them hourly.
Systems-Continuity Diagnostic
Three to four weeks on one business-critical system and one pending mandate. What it does, who can run it, what the spec actually requires, what breaks if your keeper leaves, and the phased plan to meet the date. Security and fraud-controls review included.
Integration or Modernization Project
Scoped from the diagnostic’s map, not a sales estimate. Projects such as: EDI and API integrations, legacy TMS/WMS/dispatch modernization in phases while freight keeps moving, customs filing logic rewritten to the rules that actually exist now.
Maintain · Support · Grow
We hold the current documentation of your stack and the shortest path to the next integration. The next trading partner, the next regulatory date, the next terminal — they land on us, not on one employee.
A decade of custody. Renewed in 2026 with a full platform replacement — delivered two months early.
A Florida maritime-logistics operator has trusted 3 Strand with its project-tracking and cargo-management systems for more than ten years. When its mission-critical mobile application reached end of life, the account was renewed with a complete replacement rather than put out to rebid. Ten months, planned at twelve, with the legacy system in production the whole way.
Six logistics sectors. One set of systems. We speak the vocabulary.
Tender, onboarding, EDI 204/214/210, drayage, dry dock, entry type, CSA score. If your business moves freight and runs on software one person understands, you will recognize us as one of yours by the second paragraph.
Freight brokers & non-asset 3PLs
Every shipper and carrier is an integration. Survivors of the shakeout must integrate to keep consolidating shippers.
Warehousing, fulfillment & distribution 3PLs
Every new customer is a WMS integration.
Regional carriers & dedicated fleets
The 2026 FMCSA calendar sets dated system changes; one systems keeper carries them all.
Maritime & port services
Custom systems by necessity; vessel maintenance every three years; see one of our case studies.
Freight forwarders & customs brokers
Tariff and de minimis churn rewrites filing logic. The July 1, 2027 statutory repeal is already on the calendar.
Wholesale distributors with fleets
ERP–WMS–routing stacks held together by one person and a spreadsheet.
“A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.”
Ecclesiastes 4:12. The three-strand unity is the foundation of how we work: 3 Strand Solutions, our clients, and God form a bond that drives successful projects and relationships that last a decade, not a contract term. We work primarily for God, and as a by-product we serve our customers and partners with excellence.
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When is the next date on your systems calendar?
Tell us what your customer, port, or regulator has asked for and when. We will tell you, candidly, whether the system you have can get there, who can run it, and what it would take. No pitch deck.