1. June 29, 2015
INTERN JOB SHADOW
Austin, Eric, Emily, Jacob, Jennifer, Zach
Intern Group 2
2. June 29, 2015
Xingyi Zhou (Alok Kumar): Network Intern
Main Responsibilities
1. Check rates on some of the
major lanes between XPO,
CSX, & Streamline
2. Location of missing equipment
Importance to the Company
• Affects our
competitiveness and
margins of profit on loads
• Reduces unnecessary
costs with ideal equipment
Austin Schenk, Operations
3. June 29, 2015
• Daily Routine
• Use AS400 and RO
• Inventario Reports for Whirlpool
• Conference calls with Class 1 Railroads
• Potential delays, continuous improvement, maintenance issues, etc
• Update Accepting or declining accessorial
• Bi-weekly conference calls for chassis
• Importance to XPO
• Reports Up-to-date
• Load destination accuracy
• Importance to Sales Department
• Fulfilling customer service requirements
Eric Mosshammer, Sales
Brian Brousseau (Nikki Ford): Operations
4. June 29, 2015
• Organizational Impact
• Trouble shooting
• Relationship to Network
• Working with Rail Optimizer
• Areas of Improvement
• Hotlines and Instant Chat
Emily Rumford, Network
Thom Harvey (Ed VanWinkle): Operations
5. June 29, 2015
• Heart of the business
• Sales Reps – customer side
• Carrier Reps – carrier side
• Freight Optimizer
• Building relationships, constant communication
• Recording paperwork
• XPO profit margin – rate difference between customer and carrier
Accounting Impacts (Intermodal)
• Accessorial charges
• Dray charges
• Accruals
• Revenue recognition
• Journal Entries
Improvements
• Difficult, no outside
control
• Backhaul carriers
• Sending bill to accounting
Alex Cook (Paul Vanbergen): Brokerage
Jacob Keverline, Accounting
6. June 29, 2015
AS400
Rail Optimizer
Intermodal Drayage Report
• Check In and Out Times
• Primarily Uses The Three Systems Pictured
• Signs Carriers up for Rail Optimizer
• Ensures Loads are in Correct Location
Jennifer Kirkpatrick, Tax
Andrew Hammer (GaryAhlstrom & Terry Carswell ): Operations
7. June 29, 2015
Stephen Hoynacki (Gene Coker): Customer Service
Zach Wnek, FP&A
• Essential to daily operations
• Affects key financial numbers
• Customers contact reps mostly
through e-mails and phone calls
• Reps resolve issues through the
Rail Optimizer
• Re-routing containers
• Ensuring deliveries are made
on time
• Billing and keeping track of
freeloads
• Meet the customer’s needs
• Top three priorities of the job:
1. The customer
2. Communication and
teamwork
• Color coding e-mails
3. Time management –
complete tasks with the highest
assigned priorities
• Billing issues have the
highest priority
• Revenue generators
• Constant awareness of e-
mail inbox
Check in and out times daily
Primarily uses microsoft excel, AS400 and Rail Optimizer
Ensures loads get to where they are supposed to
Confirm loads for the next day
Sign carriers up for the new system
Will be much easier when there is one system