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Car Accounting Self Service (CASS)
ACACSO New Orleans
May 9-12, 2012
Mark Aldenderfer
Railinc Business Analyst II
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What We Will Cover Today
• CASS Background
• Event Query for CASS
• Liability Acceptance Message (LAM) for CASS
• CASS Update
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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Home Page
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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
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Event Search Page
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Event Results Page
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Event Detail Screen
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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
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Highlighting Legend
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Haulage
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Haulage
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Suppression
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Suppression
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TOL Rule 5
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TOL Rule 5
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TOL Rule 15
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TOL Rule 15
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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
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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
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Creating LAM from Home Page
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Creating LAM from Event Details
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Creating LAM from Event Details
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Creating LAM
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Submitting LAM
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LAM History
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Choose from 7,30 or 60 days of
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LAM History
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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”
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Documentation
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CASS Update
• On October 18th ,2011 CASS moved to production
• As of Oct 24th ,2011 CASS had: – 60 users – 2 LAMs Submitted
• As of April 26, 2012 CASS had:– 164 users– 107 LAMs Submitted
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