Infosys Railroad Experience

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Infosys Railroad Experience
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Railroad Experience

• Has experience in working with 2 Class I Railroad
  in USA
• Kansas City Southern Railway
• Involved in the development of Workflow based
  Management Control tool providing Operation
  Planning, Movement of Freight, Mechanical
  support, Interfaces with other Railroads AAR
  and Reporting
• Burlington Northern SanteFe Railway
• Strategic partner catering all the IT Service
• Involved in ADM services of all Transportation
  Support system, Finance Marketing

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Areas in Railroad Domain
Railroad Operations
Asset Management
Finance

• Equipment Distribution and Optimisation
• Trip Planning and Service Scheduling
• Automatic Equipment Identification (AEI)
• Waybill
• Classification Yard Operations
• Interchange
• Intermodal / Automotive hub operations
• Crew Planning / Scheduling
• Locomotive Assignment

• Track Measurement
• Locomotive Management
• Condition based monitoring systems

• (Variable) Costing
• Revenue Management
• Revenue Accounting
• Waybill control
• Liability rating
• Line Haul rating
• Receivables
• Billing
• Cash Application
• Finance Charges
• CAR Accounting
• Price Application System
• Freight Claims

Marketing

• Rail Price Management System
• Railprices.com
• Combination prices
• CRM - Zephyr

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Management Control System (MCS)

• Business Overview
• MCS is a workflow based, end-to-end operation
  management product providing Operation Planning,
  Movement of Freight, Mechanical support,
  Interfaces with other Railroads AAR and
  Reporting. It is developed to cater the below
  needs
• Automate the Train Operation from Waybill
  creation till closure
• Help customers to order and track freight
  shipments online
• Replace paper records used by train engineers and
  customer service agents
• Provide business managers with a more effective
  way to measure costs such as those of leased
  freight cars
• Functional Overview
• MCS Developed by Infosys consists of the
  following
• Forecasting traffic volumes and planning
  accordingly
• Transportation Scheduling
• Dynamically monitoring the progress of shipments
• Providing reports and alerts to customer service
  and marketing personnel, based on events
  impacting trip schedule
• Interface with other Railroads, AAR Customers

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Management Control System (MCS)

• MCS Systems
• Service Design
• Service Request
• Creating Service Request
• Equipment Order
• Moving equipment

• Train Management
• Transportation Scheduling
• Mechanical
• Corporate Master
• Switching

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Other Application Overview

• Train, Yard Industries
• TYI mainly deals with Activation of Trains,
  Assignment of Units to train and Movement of
  units across stations. It also maintains all
  details regarding the Interchange of units
  between Railroads and also the interpretation of
  messages send to TSS by various systems like AEI
  CAD
• Costing
• The Activity Based Solutions system, otherwise
  known as COST system, calculates the cost
  incurred for BNSF in the transportation of
  commodities from Origin to Destination. This is
  done by calculating the cost of each activity
  (event) that the CAR undergoes.
• Demurrage
• Its a charge applied for using the equipment
  beyond allotted time for loading or unloading.
  The time is captured from the time the car is
  constructively placed at customers location
  until it is released. This helps customer use
  the equipment effectively.
• Service Scheduling Trip Plan Algorithm
• It is a travel itinerary for the rail equipment
• A sequence of planned Industry, Yard, and Train
  events designed to move the rail equipment from
  origin to destination
• It indicates an Estimated Date and Time for each
  event, ultimately giving an Estimated Time of
  Availability at destination

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Other Application Overview Cont

• Intermodal
• Intermodal deals with the part of rail
  transportation that covers the multi-modal
  transportation of trailers and/or containers by
  ship, rail, and truck
• Rate Price Management System
• RPMS system is Pricing tool and its
  responsibility includes creation, maintenance and
  expiration of different Price Authorities for
  Customers internal and external. It also provides
  interfaces to various systems for rating purposes
• Waybill, WOR/NRT
• The Waybill system handles all the processes
  related to the creation and maintenance of
  waybills. This system also interacts with many
  other systems and gives information to them
• Work Order Reporting (WOR) ,Near Real Time
  Reporting (NRT) or Voice Train Reporting are ways
  for reporting work by crews from different
  locations
• Mechanical
• Mechanical system provides methods to track
  inventory and repair information of all cars and
  locomotives. It maintains details like
  inspection, repair, maintenance and disposal of
  locomotives and rail cars
• TSS Dispatching
• The Dispatching application provides the train
  dispatchers with a task list program that
  identifies trains that need safety information
  delivered via print, fax, or voicemail. The
  safety information is packaged into a General
  Track Bulletin format and delivered to the train
  crew

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Thank You