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Rail Carrier Shipment Information / Bill of Lading Processing

The general steps in processing 404s electronically are initiated when the customer enters or

creates bill of lading in their computer. This information, or data, is then formatted into the ASC

X12 404 transaction set. This formatting may be performed by you, the customer, or your third

party value added network. After formatting, the transaction is delivered to Burlington Northern

Santa Fe or your third party value added network. The BNSF computer then performs a security

edit and certain basic alpha-numeric edits and determines that all mandatory elements and

segments are present.

This becomes the document that will create a rail carrier waybill which will be used in releasing

your equipment, set up a revenue document, create the operating instructions, and if an interline

shipment, pass the information on to the next rail carrier.

EDI Acknowledgments

BNSF will generate a 997 Functional Acknowledgment to you, the customer, indicating if the

electronic format met all requirements for processing. If rejected at this level, the document will

not be processed any further.

BNSF will generate a 824 Application Acknowledgement to you, the customer, indicating that the

bill of lading information was used by Burlington Northern Santa Fe's application systems. It is

designed to accomodate the business need of reporting the acceptance, rejection, or acceptance

with change of the bill of lading.

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