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Car Accounting Self Service Project

Mark Aldenderfer, Business Analyst II

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What We Will Cover Today

• Project Background

• Event Query for CASS

• Liability Acceptance Message(LAM) for CASS

• Project Update

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Project Background

• Many LCS related customer questions require significant research and time to answer– The CASS system will help in returning events associated

with a LCS decision– More on Event Query later

• Railroads want a easy way to submit LAMs– The CASS system will allow a Railroad to easily submit a

LAM through a web based system. – More on LAM creation later

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Goals and Objectives

• Give visibility into confusing car hire decisions created by LCS logic

• Reduce expenses in terms of time and effort researching LCS car hire decisions

• Reduce expense required to create and send Liability Acceptance Messages

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Event Query Theme

• The system will allow for the search of equipment movement events by– Searching for a single equipment– Searching using a date range up to 90 days

• The CASS system will have access to at least a years worth of events

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Home Page

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Event Results Page

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Event Detail Screen

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LAM Theme

• This special message type is used to accept car hire liability

• Can be sent as a TRAIN10, but is most commonly known as a TRAIN31 type 5 message

• Can be time consuming to create and send

• Not every Railroad has the ability to send

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LAM Theme Cont.

• TRAINII manual explanation for LAM– If event reporting has caused car hire responsibility to be

assigned to a carrier other than the carrier to whom it belongs, a TRAIN10 or TRAIN31 message with an Action Code of 5 can be used to correct the assignment of car hire responsibility. This Car Hire Liability Acceptance report will result in an LCS gap record from the current responsible road to the road submitting the acceptance interchange event.

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LAM Theme Cont.

• CASS system will validate LAMs using todays logic– The system will check in insure that no LCS evaluated event

has been posted after the time of the Type 5. – If LAM is accepted the system will look to determine when

liability can be changed

o If before the 6th of the current month liability can be placed back to the beginning of previous month

o If after the 6th of the current month liability can be placed back to the beginning of current month

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Project Status Update

• The project is currently on schedule– The system will allow for searching new events up to events

90 days old– The system will allow for searching of old events past 90

days old by the end of iteration 2

• Iteration two will be completed this week and iteration three will begin Monday of next week

• Work on the project is scheduled for completion on– October 25, 2011

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CHDX Platform Upgrade

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CHDX Platform Upgrade

• Migration from Mainframe onto Mid-Range Platform• Reduction of Support Costs• Minimization of Manual Intervention• Improved Processing Time• Future Enhancements to the System are made

Possible– Improved Data Quality– Risk Reduction

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Current Progress

• Preliminary Validations of Inbound File Format– Ensures that uploaded content is readable by the CHDX

system

• Upload of a File via Web UI– Will Replace MyRailPartner

• Parsing of the EDI414 File– Needed for conversion into 1400 flat file

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Project Status

• Environment Set-up has been Completed (IT0)– The Proof of Theory of the Common DX has already been

validated during the SSDX Project

• Iteration 1 began on April 26th

• Project Completion Date: December 7th

• First Month Utilized in Production: February 2012

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