Shipment Management
- Access the new inbound and outbound inventory dashboards (user ID and password required).
Reference material for our Shipment Management tool follows below. Simply choose your shipment type below to view the corresponding support material.
Carload Shippers - Dashboard & Inventory Screens
Carload Shipper - Initiate Car Placement
- Order Cars by Quantity Order cars to be placed for loading or unloading by selected criteria.
- Order In Order cars to be placed for loading or unloading by specific equipment ID.
Carload Shippers - Switching Definitions
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Intra-Plant Switching - A switching action performed by moving equipment from one location to another location within the same industry.
Intra-Terminal Switching - A switching action performed by one railroad, moving equipment from one industry to another industry within the same switching limits of a terminal.
Inter-terminal Switching - A switching action performed by two railroads; railroad one will move equipment from an industry, then interchange equipment with railroad two for placement at an industry within the same terminal switching limits.
Carload Shippers - Release & Sequence Process
Intermodal Shipper
- View the Intermodal Dashboard Overview Learn to navigate the new dashboard.
Unit Train Shippers
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Dashboard Overview
Learn to navigate the new dashboard. - Train Lineup Learn to navigate the lineup views (Inbound, Outbound, Shuttle, Train Lineup) and the available actions for each page.
- Release Release train action (empty and loaded billing).
- Forecasting Customer’s plans for unit train movement which will include, origin, destination, release date/time and number of cars.
- Coal Forecasting Utility customers enter projected coal demand and Mine customers enter projected coal supply monthly.
Reports
- How to Clone a Report Clone reports to simplify sharing with your co-workers.
- Utilizing Templates to Create a Report Simplify the report creation process using our specially designed report templates.
- Creating a Custom Report from Scratch Personalize and tailor your report exactly the way you want it.