The document outlines the current manual reporting processes used at various railroad junctions and yards, including clerks entering car location information, supervisors hand counting written boards and entering data, and yardmasters filling out mill reports that are then faxed. It proposes automating these reporting processes through a business intelligence application that would generate operations reports using data entered by clerks and stored on a central server, allowing all parties to perform search queries.
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Written Board
Fax Written
Board
JUNCTION
E.T. CLAIRTON
Clerk Enters
Car Location
Information
(RMI)
Daily Operations Activity
IRVIN
Clerk Prints
New Track
Lists
Supervisor
Hand Counts
Written Board
Supervisor
Enters Data
into MSR
Yardmaster
Fills out Mill
Report
Fax Mill
Reports
CAR
CONTROL
E.T. CLAIRTON
Yardmaster
Hand Counts
Written Board
IRVIN
JUNCTION
Nightly Reporting Process
Supervisor
Emails
Report
TRANSTAR
HDQ
MANAGER
LIST
SERVER
Business
Intelligence
Application
Generate
Operations
Reports
E.T. CLAIRTON
Clerk Enters
Car
Information
(RMI)
IRVIN
B.I. Reporting Process
All Parties
Perform
Query Search
Location Manual
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