©Railinc 2010 All Rights Reserved Car Accounting Self Service (CASS) ACACSO New Orleans May 9-12, 2012 Mark Aldenderfer Railinc Business Analyst II 1
©Railinc 2010 All Rights Reserved What We Will Cover Today CASS Background Event Query for CASS Liability Acceptance Message (LAM) for CASS CASS Update 2
©Railinc 2010 All Rights Reserved CASS Background Designed for Car Accountants Many LCS related customer questions required significant research and time to answer –The CASS system will help in returning events associated with a LCS decision 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. 3
©Railinc 2010 All Rights Reserved LAM Defined 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. 4
©Railinc 2010 All Rights Reserved CASS Will 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 5
©Railinc 2010 All Rights Reserved CASS Permissions Access to CASS is controlled by Railinc’s Single- Sign-On System (SSO) Access should be requested for “Car Account Self Service” CASS permissions available –CASS Company Administration –CASS LAM Creation –CASS Event Query 6
©Railinc 2010 All Rights Reserved Home Page The Home Page will display a Mark list created at login that CASS will use for permissions The CASS Home Page will display 5 links: –Home –Event Search –Create Message (Only available with LAM permissions) –Message History (Only available with LAM permissions) –Documentation 7
©Railinc 2010 All Rights Reserved Home Page 8
©Railinc 2010 All Rights Reserved Event Query The system will allow for the search of movement events by: –A Single rail car –Date range – up to 90 days The CASS system will allow access to a year’s worth of events –Access to events is limited to a rolling 12 months of events 9
©Railinc 2010 All Rights Reserved Event Search Page 10
©Railinc 2010 All Rights Reserved Event Results Page 11
©Railinc 2010 All Rights Reserved Event Detail Screen 12
©Railinc 2010 All Rights Reserved Special Interchanges in CASS CASS will highlight complex scenarios –Haulage movements events –Suppressed movement events –Rule 15s –Rule 5s CASS will highlight all LCS evaluated events Each scenario will be highlighted using a unique color 13
©Railinc 2010 All Rights Reserved Highlighting Legend 14
©Railinc 2010 All Rights Reserved Haulage 15
©Railinc 2010 All Rights Reserved Haulage 16
©Railinc 2010 All Rights Reserved Suppression 17
©Railinc 2010 All Rights Reserved Suppression 18
©Railinc 2010 All Rights Reserved TOL Rule 5 19
©Railinc 2010 All Rights Reserved TOL Rule 5 20
©Railinc 2010 All Rights Reserved TOL Rule 15 21
©Railinc 2010 All Rights Reserved TOL Rule 15 22
©Railinc 2010 All Rights Reserved Liability Acceptance Messages(LAM) This special message type is used only to accept car hire liability. Cannot be used to assign car hire liability to another party. Can be sent as a TRAIN10, but is commonly referred to as a TRAIN31 type 5 message Can be time consuming to create and send Not every Railroad has the ability to send 23
©Railinc 2010 All Rights Reserved LAM Cont. CASS system will validate LAMs based on the following logic –Event time must be within 120 hours of Current date and time. This will be based on Eastern Time Zone. Messages could be rejected based on early reporting if event time is not entered as Eastern Time –Must be a valid interchange point between the “From Road and To Road” –Cannot be a duplicate message 24
©Railinc 2010 All Rights Reserved Creating LAM from Home Page 25
©Railinc 2010 All Rights Reserved Creating LAM from Event Details 26
©Railinc 2010 All Rights Reserved Creating LAM from Event Details 27
©Railinc 2010 All Rights Reserved Creating LAM 28
©Railinc 2010 All Rights Reserved Submitting LAM 29
©Railinc 2010 All Rights Reserved LAM History 30 Choose from 7,30 or 60 days of history
©Railinc 2010 All Rights Reserved LAM History 31
©Railinc 2010 All Rights Reserved LAM History Status Submitted – LAM has been submitted but has not reached the Event Repository Posted – LAM has been submitted and has reached the Event Repository. LAM will show in Event Search LCS Evaluated – LAM has been posted to the Event Repository and has been evaluated by LCS. LAM will show in Event Search with LCS Code “C” 32
©Railinc 2010 All Rights Reserved Documentation 33
©Railinc 2010 All Rights Reserved CASS Update On October 18 th,2011 CASS moved to production As of Oct 24 th,2011 CASS had: –60 users –2 LAMs Submitted As of April 26, 2012 CASS had: –164 users –107 LAMs Submitted 34
©Railinc 2010 All Rights Reserved 35 Enhancement Ideas Contact us: RAILINC 7001 Weston Parkway, Suite 200, Cary, NC –