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A99

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Deviation code: Billing

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B99

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Deviation code: Bad Order

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C99

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Deviation code: Diversion

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D99

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Deviation code: Yard Delay

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E12

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Deviation code: Enroute - Late arrival to next trip event

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G01

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Deviation code: Car delayed for broker or forwarder issues (international shipments)

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H99

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Deviation code: Hold

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J99

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Deviation code: Interchange - Awaiting switch

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JC1

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Deviation code: Jeopardized Car - Unclassified

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M99

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Deviation code: Late/missing

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N01

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Deviation code: No Seal - Doors open

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P99

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Deviation code: Product

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R99

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Deviation code: Out of Route

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S99

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Deviation code: Storage

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T00

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Deviation code: Train Off Schedule (slow-moving car)

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U99

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Deviation code: Unloading Delay

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W99

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Deviation code: Origin Delay

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X01

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Deviation code: Car activated from history (used to document the return of a shipment to active tracking from history)

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CLM

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Car Location Message

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AEI

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Automatic Equipment Identification

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SPLC

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Standard Point Location Code

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ERPC

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Eastern Railroad President’s Conference

Used to transcribe locations into SPLCs

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RTM

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Rail Tracking Management Dept.

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RLS

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Rail Logistics Specialist

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TFM

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Tracking & Fleet Manager

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PRD

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Process & Route Development

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NSIT

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Network Services

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DES

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Data Exchange Services

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STCC

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Standard Tariff Commodity Code

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EDI

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Electronic Data Interchange

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CP

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Constructive Placement

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AP

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Actual Placement

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ETA - Original

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Static ETA

Ship date + Trip Plan cumulative hours

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ETA - Current

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Dynamic ETA

Most recent trip event date/time + remaining Trip Plan cumulative hours

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RDD

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Requested Delivery Date

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ADD

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Adjusted Delivery Date

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OTD

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Original ETA + 2 days

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LTS

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Lead Time Standard - Shipment will arrive within x days at least 75% of the time

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SDT

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Service Delivery Team

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SM

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Smart Maps

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SD

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Smart Data

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PM

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Process Manager

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UP

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Union Pacific

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BNSF

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Burlington Northern Santa Fe

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NS

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Norfolk Southern

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CSXT

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Chesapeake Southern

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KCS

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Kansas City Southern

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CPKC

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merger between CPRS & KCS

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CPRS

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Canadian Pacific

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CN

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Canadian National

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BOL

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Bill of Lading

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ICC

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International Code Council

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LOA

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Letter of Authorization

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Class 1 RRs

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UP, NS, KCS, CSX, CN, CP, BNSF

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O/D Pair

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Origin & Shipper + Destination & Consignee

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Demurrage

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Cost incurred by customer from RR for cars remaining at RR Destination for longer than the free days

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EDI 404

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Bill of Lading; created by shipper, accepted by carrier (RR); Includes details about Trip

Contract between shipper & carrier (RR)

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Bill of Lading

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EDI 404; created by shipper, accepted by carrier (RR); Includes details about Trip

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EDI 417

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Waybill; created by carrier (RR), includes details about the Trip

without the power of a contract

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W - X - P

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Release - Pull - Departure

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A - P

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Arrival - Departure

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A - J –> R - P

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(Arrival - Junction Delivered)

(Junction Received - Departure)

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D - Y - Z

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Destination Arrival - Constructive Placement - Actual Placement

64
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Pinch Point

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When both RRs claim they don’t have the car at an interchange & when the car has been released, but still hasn’t moved

65
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Types of Layovers

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Customer Layover & Plant Layover

66
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Types of Gates

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Open Gate & Closed Gate

67
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Open Gate

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Bring the car to the yard whenever

68
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Closed Gate

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Have to bring cars to the yard at designated times

69
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Manifest Train

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Can have different types of cars, classes, destinations

70
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Unit Train

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Same car class, O/D

71
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Route String

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Part of BOL. Combo of RRs stations & Interchanges we’re expecting

72
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Carrier Segment

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specific events/actions as part of the route string

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A11

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Deviation code: Routing - Trip Plan Variation. Triggered after enough E12s

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A13

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Deviation code: Routing - Placed on wrong train

75
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Hot List

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List of cars that customers have asked QTS to pay attention to.

Not for expediting. QTS does not charge extra for

76
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Expedite List

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Cars that customers have requested be expedited

QTS does charge

77
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Shut Down List

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The customer’s plant will shut down if shipment does not arrive by a certain date/time

If RR can’t ordinarily accommodate, a SPCL Switch or SPCL Train can be ordered. Very $$$

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EDI Manager

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Stores all the Waybills & BOLs that need processing

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CSL

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Carrier Segment Library

Houses historical data on route segments

80
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Care of Party

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The entity who’s the end recipient of the shipment.

81
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PRD Request Types

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Manual, Diversion, Correction

82
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Train Car Types

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Autorack
Covered Hopper
Open-Top Hopper
Tank cars
Gondolas
Boxcar
Refrigerated Boxcar
Flats
Centerbeam
Coil Car
Well Car

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Autorack Car

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vehicles

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Boxcar

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wide variety of crated or palletized freight

(paper, lumber, packaged goods, beverages, and boxes)

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Centerbeam

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bundled goods

(lumber, wallboard, fence posts, and other building supplies)

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Covered Hopper

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free-flowing dry bulk commodities

(cement, roofing granules, sand, corn, wheat, barley, fertilizer, soda ash, sugar, and rice)

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Coil Car

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coiled steel, steel plate, or high-grade ores

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Flatcar

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Pipe, rail, steel plate, machinery, steel beams, tractors, military vehicles, lumber, poles, and logs

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Gondola

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heavy bulk commodities

(scrap metal, aggregates, logs, lumber, steel, sand, copper, and iron ore)

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Open-Top Hopper

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coal, petroleum coke, rock, and copper concentrate

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Refrigerated Boxcar

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perishable freight

(fresh fruits, vegetables, frozen food, beverages, meat, poultry, seafood, cheese, and other refrigerated shipments)

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Tank Car

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compressed or liquid commodities

(chemicals, molasses, edible tallow, water, asphalt, diesel fuel, and diesel exhaust fluid)

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Well Car

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Intermodal containers which can hold a wide variety of goods.

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DES Areas of Responsibility

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  1. Extract Processes & File Feeds
  2. Inbound/Outbound EDI Configuration and Maintenance
    * 404 Distribution: receive from shipper, forward to carrier (extra fee)
    * 410 Collection: receive and collect to coordinate payment (extra fee)
    * 404 and 417 Tracking (base level service)
  3. CLM Retrieval/Distribution/Maintenance
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EDI 410

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Carrier Freight Detail and Invoice

Not used for tracking purposes

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EDI Mapping

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refers to the programming in which we teach the computer system where to look for specific pieces of info of an EDI document

97
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EDI Importing

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Extracting EDI data with mapping, then writing it into the Host32 db

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EDI Segment

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Each row on an EDI document containing specific info to that row

99
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Data Elements

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Info inside each EDI segment (separated with an asterisk)

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Data Loop

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Multiple EDI segments working together and listed in sequence

101
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EDI Segment
N7

A

Car #

102
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EDI Segment
F9

A

Origin

103
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EDI Segment
D9

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Destination

104
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EDI Segment
N1*SH

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Shipper

105
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EDI Segment
N1*CN

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Consignee

106
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EDI Segment
N1*C1

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Care of Party

107
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EDI Segment
N1*PF

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Payer of Freight for prepaid and collect payment types

108
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EDI Segment
N1*11

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Payer of Freight for rule 11 payment type

109
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EDI Segment
R2

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Carrier Routing and junction location if there are multiple carriers

110
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EDI Segment
N9*BM

A

BOL# and Ship Date

111
Q

EDI Segment
L5

A

Product description and STCC

112
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EDI Segment
BX***03

A

Payment terms

113
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Payer of Freight Types

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Prepaid (PP): 1st carrier sends invoice to payer of freight for the whole trip, then pays all following carriers

Collect (CC): Last carrier of route charges the payer of freight, then pays all previous carriers in the route

Rule 11: Each carrier charges the payer of freight separately

114
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Direct Route

A

When only 1 carrier involved in route

115
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CLM Feed columns

A

Date
ERPC
Event
L/E
Carrier
Train
ERPC Destination
CLM Source

116
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Rail Tracking Management (RTM)
dept. responsibilities

A
  • active monitoring and intervention of rail shipments that are being tracked by TFM
  • proactively engage clients and RRs to reconcile shipping issues, deviations, and other problems in real-time
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Process & Route Development (PRD)
dept. responsibilities

A
  • subset of DES
  • maintains the TFM trip plan system (routes), which is used to determine
    • shipment ETAs
    • deviation scenarios
    • when rail cars are moving out-of-route
118
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Support Services
dept. responsibilites

A
  • EBusiness support
  • client reports
  • managing the start-up process of new QTS customers
119
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Fleet Services
dept. responsibilities

A

Manages the inventory, maintenance, and repair process of rail cars that are owned by QTS customers

120
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Car Location Messages

A
  • life-blood of our TFM tracking system
  • electronic data messages transmitted to our computer system from the RR
  • contain critical info about the status of individual railcars that we track for customers
  • CLMs can tell us the railcar’s location, what’s happening to the railcar, and where it’s heading
121
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CLM feed

A

consecutive string of CLMs for a particular railcar
(TFM –> Units (sidebar) –> Tracking info (tab))

122
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CLM Date

A

Date/time of when CLM data was captured by the RR

Consider the elapsed time between the first and last CLM in feed

123
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CLM ERPC

A
  • railcar location
  • contains station city & state/province
  • is automatically matched by the TFM system to a SPLC# (if new, it must be manually added)
124
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SPLC Maintenance Table

A
  • List of ERPC abbreviations attached to each SPLC#
    • found under “Tools” in TFM
125
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CLM L/E

A
  • Loaded/Empty status
  • railcars can be moving incorrectly as loaded or empty
126
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CLM Destination ERPC

A
  • Indicates the destination of the railcar according to the current carrier
  • listed in ERPC format
  • let’s us know when carrier has railcar moving to the wrong destination
127
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CLM Sources

A
  • Rail Inc. external
  • Carrier external
  • “Manual Ops Entry” (can result in data entry errors) internal
  • “Auto-posted by EDI Add System” internal
  • “Event Generator” internal
128
Q

CLM feeds can be difficult to analyze because CLMs may be…

A
  • Missing
  • Duplicated from different sources
  • Reported out of order
129
Q

ISO Container

A

ISO tank is a container that is built to the ISO (International Organization for Standardization) stands and designed to carry hazardous and non-hazardous bulk liquids

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