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BNSF Railway www.bnsf.com
Web-Based, Standardized Transportation Support System
Project Lead: Bonnie Henn-Pritchard, Assistant Vice President Technology Services
Project Description: Seeking to enhance its ability to track more than 6,000 locomotives, 220,000 freight cars, and 40,000 people across more than 50,000 miles of track, BNSF revamped its Transportation Support System, transforming the "green screen," text-command legacy app into the Web-based, user-friendly TSS Xpress. The new tracking system reduces more than 3,400 commands to fewer than 100 transportation-focused menu items and offers data filtering, sorting, and exporting tools.

DHL Express www.dhl.com
eMail Ship
Project Lead: Ashish Saxena, Head of Domain-Customer Access
Project Description: eMail Ship is an initiative geared toward extending DHL's online shipment processing capabilities to SMBs. The system enables SMBs to prepare waybills and other required paperwork offline in the form of an Excel Spreadsheet or PDF and submit them to DHL via e-mail. The system then converts form data to XML for upload to DHL's back-end systems and route a confirmation e-mail message with an air waybill number and the necessary declaration forms back to the customer upon validation.

Schneider National www.schneider.com
Dispatch Execution Planning & Optimization Tool
Project Lead: Chris Plate, Research Analyst
Project Description: To reduce the complexity of dray dispatching, Schneider National developed the Dispatch Execution Planning & Optimization Tool. The Java-based application provides the trucking company's dispatchers with extensive information regarding loads, drivers, and available empty boxes, and it recommends cost-effective, operationally feasible dispatch assignments. More intuitive to use than its predecessor, DEPOT has already saved the company more than $800,000.