3G-TM Rating integration overview

First available in TMW.Operations 17.30.23

Knowing what you will pay—​and how much you will charge—​to complete your customers' requests for shipments is critical to your success. TMW’s 3G-TM Rating Integration gives you:

  • Accurate and real-time data for decision making

  • Access to data on demand

  • Automated calculations and ratings

The 3G-TM Rating Integration ties your 3G-TM rates to your TMW dispatch system.

Your existing TMW rates tell the system when to use 3G-TM for rating. Access to 3G-TM rating reduces time-consuming manual work and mistakes. It provides accurate data on:

  • Cost
    What you will pay to have the load moved

    Costs can be based on a TMW rate or a 3G-TM carrier rate

  • Cost+
    What you will bill

    Rates are percentage-based, with minimum markup

  • Cost and Billing
    What you will pay and what you will bill, based on 3G-TM rates

  • Cost and TMW Billing Rates
    The cost is applied based on a Cost rate in 3G-TM. If there is no 3G-TM revenue rate or markup, a TMW billing rate will be used.

Web services handle all communication. TMW is the system of record for customers, carriers, shippers, and consignees.

This diagram shows the flow of data when a rate request is submitted.

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  1. Rate quote request sent from TMW Operations to the TMW Integration Service (with previously acquired authentication token)

  2. TMW Integration Service sends the request to the TMW Operations Plug-in

  3. TMW Operations Plug-in reformats the data as a 3G-TM rate quote request sent to the 3G-TM API

  4. 3G-TM rate quote result sent to the TMW Operations Plug-in

  5. TMW Operations Plug-in sends the returned quote to the TMW Integration Service

  6. Reformatted TMW rate quote result sent to TMW Operations

Glossary of terms

Use this topic to help you understand some of the terms used in 3G-TM. An asterisk (*) identifies terms that are equivalent to terms used in TMW applications. See the 3G-TM website for the complete glossary of terms.

Blanket benchmark

General-purpose benchmark rates used to serve as a guideline for the price at which the 3PL will move their customer’s freight

Blanket billing

General-purpose billing rates used for all quote and order charges

Blanket cost

General-purpose carrier cost rates used during planning and carrier assignment for all loads

Client benchmark

Client-specific benchmark rates used to serve as a guideline for the price at which the 3PL will move their customer’s freight for the specified client

Client billing

Billing rates used when the client specified on the quote or order matches the client specified on the contract

Client cost

Client-specific carrier cost rates used during planning and carrier assignment, when the client specified on all orders match the client specified on the contract

Client *

Any company flagged as a Bill To in TMW

Contract

A 3G-TM contract identifies the criteria used to apply a rate to an order. On a basic level, contracts share many restrictions found in TMW rates, such as:

  • The effective and expiration dates governing when a rate is in use

  • The companies on the order

  • The carrier assigned on the order

However, the contract allows for very complex criteria to be applied, including strategies and tiers.

Customer *

Any company flagged as a shipper or consignee in TMW

Deficit billing

Typically used in LTL Tariffs, offers rate discounts when you use a larger capacity of the truck.

During the rating, looks at the weight of the load, and then searches for the next break point for a higher weight break. The rate and discounts associated with the higher rate are applied. Also charges the deficit weight to bring the weight up to the next break level.

For example:

You have a load to haul with 8,000 pounds of FAK. If the next weight break is at 10,000 pounds, you are charged for a 10,000-pound load. A deficit line is added to the bill to make up the difference between the 8,000-pound and the 10,000-pound load.

Deficit weight is weight added to a bill so that the shipment will cost less due to the rate reduction for higher weights.

House carrier

A carrier-type trading partner used on contracts to make the specific billing contract easier to recognize

Note: This entity exists only in 3G-TM.

Strategy

A 3G-TM contract strategy represents a different cost or discount percent for a geography. A geography is the origin/destination, defined as an area or location.

The strategies in a contract are listed in the hierarchical order in which they are applied.

Tier

Used to define different prices for rating as the amount to be rated changes

Trading partner *

Any Bill To company or carrier from your TMW database