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We have had many questions recently concerning how to determine whether to apply the LHS or SIT discount percentage rate to certain 400NG item codes. The determination as to which discount to apply is based on the Families First Phase II Item Code Spreadsheet, which is Attachment M to the Phase II Business Rules on the SDDC Website….
Open the “DOM-400NG” tab, and locate Column C on the spreadsheet. This column, labeled “dhhg (Trans discount); dsit (SIT & SIT

We recently discovered that the DPS Item Code Spreadsheet posted on the SDDC website is not the most current version. The current spreadsheet is Version 10 dated 8/29/07, but the version on the SDDC Website is Version 9, dated 10/13/05. Unfortunately, there are some significant changes between the 2 versions, especially related to Units of Measure (UOMs) on the Domestic line items. If you develop your invoicing system to match version 9 of item code spreadsheet, your invoices will likely…

You may have already noticed… You have not been receiving emails from Daycos for electronic payment remittance for your PowerTrack (PT) shipments this week. Our office has not received any 820 payment remittance files from PT since March 21st. We have contacted the PT help desk on several occasions throughout this week regarding this issue. We have been advised that they are actively working to correct this problem and hope to have it fixed soon. We have also been told…

We received the following email from Dave Mullineaux of SDDC regarding the issue surrounding the CWA invoice rejections we blogged about earlier this week.

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Due to the unprecedented number of invoice rejections from the address validations recently deployed, SDDC has decided to pull these validations checks. These validations will be removed on March 27, 2008 at 1600 EDT. They will be put back into production on Friday, April 11, 2008. This …

Late last week we noticed an increase in the number of invoices that were being cancelled in PowerTrack (PT) by CWA via 824 rejection notices due to the error reason ADR067 – Incorrect number of Addresses for Item Code. We have been working with the CWA help desk to resolve this issue and have been advised of the following:

CWA recently did a table update and it did not process successfully. They have now made corrections to the tables for …

In addition to briefing the spiral deployment schedule, the JPMO-HHGS staff took questions from TSPs and PPSOs during their recent DPS Town Hall. There were many questions presented that centered around invoicing in DPS. In our recent newsletter, Daycos shared some concerns about the progress of invoice testing. In contrast, the JPMO-HHGS team was very confident that invoicing would be adequately tested and fielded on schedule. Here are some of the specific comments made regarding testing:

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Last week, JPPMO-HHGS held another DPS town hall to update TSPs, PPSOs, and the Services on their progress with the DPS system. In order to get the system launched in their desired timeframe, they have decided to go with a “spiral deployment” approach to launching DPS. We have recreated the schedule that was presented below, to the best of our ability. However, pleased be advised that aspects of the schedule were a little bit unclear, so hopefully JPMO-HHGS will be…

Hard at work in our Production Department each day, I would like to take the time to introduce you to Valery Johnson.
Valery started here at Daycos in August of 2000 in our Customer Support Department, where she handled a wide variety of responsibilities for us. Four years ago, she made the transition over to our Production Department, where she has become a very well-rounded employee to assist in accomplishing our daily workload. This time of year when our billing…

We learned last week that in addition to Mid-South requesting documents from carriers for the General Service Administration (GSA) to perform their post-audit review, another agency has been contracted to request documents. GSA has confirmed that QMCA… has been brought on to review and request documents for PowerTrack (PT) shipments. We were unable to confirm if this meant that they would be handling all PT shipments, or what type of volume this agency would be requesting documentation for.
The QMCA

The price of fuel was $3.658 per gallon as reported on Monday, March 3, 2008 making the upcoming FSC rates for the period 3/15/08 thru 4/14/08 as follows:

GBL Domestic HHG / International HHG & UB – 12%
GSA Domestic HHG – $1.71
GSA International HHG and BAG – 16%…