eDemurrage is a BNSF.com tool that allows you to manage your equipment inventory and the ability to manage your demurrage charges. eDemurrage gives you the ability to view all equipment at your facility and equipment within switching limits, view your demurrage status for the current month, and allows you dispute records for the current and previous month. You can also receive on-line feedback from all disputes, and review records from multiple locations.

Current Inventory

Current Inventory displays a list of all cars orderd for placement, constructively placed, not ordered or auto-ordered for placement and includes a track inventory summary. The column headings at the top of each column of the table will tell you everything about your cars including the car number, the type of car, the track number on which a particular car is placed (as well as the placement date and time) and more. The table will return a summary of cars on each of the customer's tracks.

If you would like to sort your results, you can sort by the following columns, which appear underlined in the table: Car Initial, Commodity, and Station, in ascending or descending order (The mouse cursor will become a hand when the mouse is over a sortable column heading). At the bottom of the page appears the option to export the file to either an excel file (which is the default) or to a comma delimited file. Choose the export format you prefer and click 'Export Inventory' to get your consolidated Inventory emailed to your email id (the email-id that you provided when you created your BNSF.com profile).

The invoice page lists invoices for the current month, as well as any previous invoices from the past twelve months. You can view any of these invoices by clicking on the month. You may dispute the current month's invoice and the invoice for the previous month. The invoices can be viewed in either a Summary or Detail format, depending on which choice you select from the items under 'Select View' (Detail is the default selection).

Summary Of Invoices

The Summary Of Invoices page displays a matrix of Running Balances (broken up on various Demurrage types) and Cars (broken up on Demurrage Type and Audit Status) for the invoices for the selected month. You may have matrices for the Regular or Straight demurrage plans, or both. Clicking on any of the dollar amounts under Running Balances gives the Summary of the Demurrage Charges and Details of cars. Clicking on any other link takes you to the detail for the chosen combination of Demurrage Type and Audit Status, with the ability to Approve/Dispute Demurrage for individual cars.

The demurrage invoices appear first in the To Be Reviewed column. After you look at the invoice, you can move it to the Reviewed or Disputed columns. BNSF will review the Disputed invoices and move them to the Declined, Resolved, or Changed columns. Individual bill numbers can be clicked on and will allow you to link from eDemurrage to the Account Status application (if you are set up with Account Status).

If you would like to export your demurrage invoices, you can choose an export format from the menu near the bottom of the page and click 'Export Invoice' to get your consolidated Invoice Details emailed to your email id.

Summary of invoices for the chosen month for the current location. This view will provide the amount of the invoice, the demurrage type, the date of the invoice and the bill number if applicable. If you have access to Account Status you can click on the bill number to link to Account Status to pay or dispute your invoice.

This page carries the detail of cars for the chosen combination of Demurrage Type and Audit Status Code with the ability to select individual cars and Approve / Dispute the charges by choosing from the list of reasons. You may provide a brief description along with the chosen reason for disputing.

Left-Click on either of the radio-buttons to choose Ascending or Descending sort on the chosen column.

To put a check mark in a box, left click the box that you want to check.

Clicking on this button will put a check mark in the check box of every row on the current screen.

Clicking on this button will remove the check mark from any and all checkboxes that have them on the current screen.

Paging Buttons / Links

Paging occurs as a result of three possibilities; if there is more than one Demurrage Type available for the chosen month(when you click for 'ALL' records in the Invoice-Matrix), if there are more than 50 records, or both. In case of the multiple Demurrage Types, one Demurrage Type is shown at a time, with the other Demurrage Types appearing as clickable links at the bottom. Any time there are more than 50 rows to display in any given table, the screen becomes multiple "Pages". When this happens, a set of paging buttons will be displayed at the bottom of each page. These buttons work as described under "Action Buttons" above, and their individual functions are described below.

Click this button to display the next 50 records.

Click this button to display the previous 50 records.

Click this button to display the final 50 records.

Click this button to display the first 50 records.

Choose the export format and click 'Export Invoice Detail' to get your consolidated Invoice Details, in the desired format, emailed to your email id (the email-id that you provided when you registered with BNSF.com).

This page can be used to search for equipment by entering equipment initial and equipment number. A maximum of 5 locations can be searched for the equipment, at a time. Equipment can be searched for their occurrences in Inventory or for All occurrences( in Inventory & Invoices).

Clicking this button initiates the search for the equipment at the chosen location(s) and within the chosen domain(Inventory or All).

Location Selection

This is a listing of all Locations that you have been assigned access to. Clicking on any of these codes will return you to the Main Menu, with that Location as your currently selected Location. In case of more than 50 Locations available to you, you can page through the results by left-clicking on the buttons below the Location table.

Preferences

This page lists your preferences for Current Inventory (for Cars that are 'Currently at Facility', 'Currently Ordered', 'Currently Future Ordered For Placement', 'Currently CP'd', 'Released, Pulled and Held for Billing' and the 'Track Inventory Summary'), Invoices ( for 'Detail Car List' and 'Detail Shuttle Car List'). In the absence of any explicit Preference setting, you would see the respective defaults. You can remove, add, rearrange and set sorting preferences for the aforementioned categories. You can use the 'Update Inventory Preference Only' and ' Update Invoice Preferences Only' buttons to update your profile and session with the chosen preferences. You can update one category at a time, eg. 'Inventory-Currently at Facility'. In order to reset your 'Current Inventory' or 'Invoice' preferences use 'Restore Inventory Defaults' and 'Restore Invoice Defaults' buttons. Your profile will not be updated by simply resetting until you click the corresponding <Update...> buttons.

Notification List

This page allows you to request email notifications of accepted or rejected eDemurrage disputes as well as periodic notifications of your demurrage status for the month. You can add multiple recipients and set preferences for each user which will define the amount of information received on the emails. To view the current notification list or to delete any existing recipients select the Notify List link to the right of the account.