Leveraging Demurrage Transactions for Rail Car Tracking · Demurrage Transaction (DT) Purpose •DTs are used to capture the loaded or empty equipment movement •Equipment is not

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Leveraging Demurrage Transactions for

Rail Car Tracking

By

Lakshmi Padileti & Jaheer Shaik

DATE: 29TH JULY 2013

Agenda

Basics of Demurrage Transaction

Rail Car Booking Process

Empty Rail Car Visibility

Integrations with Demurrage Transactions & Tracking

Events

Planning Restrictions

Reporting Options

Demurrage

Transaction

(DT)

Purpose

•DTs are used to capture the loaded or empty

equipment movement

•Equipment is not necessary to define in OTM

•Release Bad cars

Create /

Update

•Automatically creates / updates by agents with the

information from Tracking Event

Events

•Holds all applicable events

•The record of dwell and free times

•Shows Start & End times separately

Reporting •Car Allocation summary and detail reports

• Links to shipment for settlement & liability 4

Demurrage Transaction – Basics

Demurrage Process Flow

Tracking Event

Manager

5

Tracking Event

XML Interface

Tracking Event

Match &

Propagation Agent

Demurrage Transaction

Demurrage Transaction

Charges

Interim Accrued Charges

(Liability) Report

Monthly

Settlement Report

Agenda





Events


Reporting Options


Following steps perform before rail car ordering

process:

Shipments forecast

Estimating rail cars by day / week and by Location

Negotiations with Rail Carriers

Placing required Rail Car orders with carrier via their

web portal, etc

Store the final negotiated rail cars by day / week by

location in OTM or outside of OTM

Rail Car Booking Process contd…

Negotiated final list of ordered rail cars

We don’t have any visibility of these rail cars start

date, arrival, where they are & car marks

Date Dest. Location Confirmed Cars

22-Jul Chicago 30

22-Jul Milwaukee 25

23-Jul Racine 15

25-Jul Chicago 20

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Events


Reporting Options


Without a shipment / equipment in OTM

How to capture the empty rail car movement?

How to release Bad Cars to rail carriers?

How to capture the events for empty rail cars?

Empty Rail Car Visibility contd…

Prior to OTM 6.3

We may need to create equipment and/or SAW shipment

Capture events either on Equipment / Shipment

Release Equipment / Shipment for bad cars

Empty Rail Car Visibility contd…

What’s New in OTM 6.3?

Demurrage Transaction and Tracking

Events will replace them

No need of creating equipment and/or

SAW shipment

Capture the events (Web / EDI) on Demurrage Transaction

Release the bad cars by sending Demurrage Transaction

object

Dallas Dallas Oklahoma Oklahoma Chicago Chicago Chicago

6009

Constructive

Placement

13

Event Code

&

Description

Event

Time

6006

Arrived

R

Junction

Received

J

Junction

Delivered

6005

Arrived at

Destination

6009

Constructive

Placement

6007

Actual

Placement

07/22/2013

9:35 AM

7/23/2013

3:22 AM

7/24/2013

6:11 AM

7/24/2013

7:18 AM

7/25/2013

7:03 AM

7/25/2013 3:40 PM

7/25/2013

4:40 PM

START

Empty Rail Car Visibility - Sample

Agenda





Events


Reporting Options

Tracking Event XML

Reporting

By Whom?

Who?

What?

When?

Where?

Tracking Event Agent

Demurrage Transaction - Origin

Demurrage Transaction – Jct.

Demurrage Transaction – Dest.

Demurrage Transaction Events

Demurrage Transaction Outbound

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Events


Reporting Options

Restrict expected rail cars by location by day/week

using location capacity

Planning – Location Capacity

Restrict expected rail cars by location by day/week

using Carrier Commitment

Planning – Carrier Commitment

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Events


Reporting Options

Summary of cars allocation by date and location

Reports – Cars Allocation Summary

Date Dest.

Location

Confirmed

Cars Intransit Rcvd.

Bad

Cars

Loaded /

Shipped

Rail Orders /

Shmts

Available

Cars

22-Jul Chicago 30 29 0 0 0 30 -1

22-Jul Milwaukee 25 0 25 0 0 25 0

23-Jul Racine 15 0 15 1 14 20 -6

25-Jul Chicago 20 0 25 0 15 15 10

This report can extend to get further more details

Reports – Car Spotting Details

Date Dest.

Location SCAC

Eq.

Initial Eq. # Start City

Start

State Car Status

22-Jul Chicago BNSF BNSF 12345 Dallas TX ARRIVAL AT ORIGIN





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25-Jul Chicago CSX CSX 11111 Jacksonville FL ACTUAL PLACEMENT AT DEST



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Lakshmi Padileti

[email protected]

+1 610 – 804 – 9119

Jaheer Shaik

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+1 510 – 857 – 5929

Leveraging Demurrage Transactions for Rail Car Tracking · Demurrage Transaction (DT) Purpose •DTs are used to capture the loaded or empty equipment movement •Equipment is not

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