Daycos News

During the recent TSP OT, Col. Carberry from JPMO-HHGS announced that the DPS system would go live on September 10th, 2008. This would be the date on which the 18 previously announced bases would start using DPS, although there was some uncertainty about how fully each base would implement the system. Col. Carberry stated that at least some of the bases would be allowed flexibility to choose how to implement, but that those decisions were yet to be made.
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Last week, seven TSPs (plus myself and a representative for PowerTrack) participated in an TSP Operational Test (OT) of the DPS system. For four days, TSPs were able to run through scripted tests of the system, as well as do some limited ad-hoc testing as time allowed. There were a few general themes that seemed to emerge from the test team.
First the good news: DPS is a more stable, reliable system than it ever has been before. We saw…

Early last week we blogged… regarding the payment delays experienced on PT/Families First shipments. We have received word from a representative of the CWA help desk that the rating issues that were being experienced on LHS charges for International invoices has been resolved.
We have rebilled the majority of the invoices that were affected by the rating issues over the last few weeks, using the Misc item code, for those invoices that we handle the PT/CWA Follow-up service for. We

When logging into PowerTrack, there is a posting advising the following scheduled maintenance for the upcoming weekend:

PowerTrack will be unavailable for system maintenance from Saturday, July 19, at 8:00 am until Saturday, July 19, at 1:00 pm Central Time (1:00 pm GMT Saturday, July 19, until 6:00 pm GMT Saturday, July 19.)…

We wanted to take a moment to update you on the payment delays with PowerTrack payable shipments that we had blogged about earlier.

LHS Rating Issues – We received the following information from the CWA Help desk on Friday regarding the LHS rating issues:

Dear Customer,
Many customers for CWA has experienced problems with Linehaul charges being denied with the CE07 Service Rate Error. This is a problem with our TOPS-CWA costing engine software. 3000+ have had denied line-haul charges.

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The price of fuel was $4.727 per gallon as reported on Monday, July 7, 2008 making the upcoming FSC rates for the period 7/15/08 through 8/14/08 as follows:

GBL Domestic HHG / International HHG & UB – 23%
GSA Domestic HHG – $2.78
GSA International HHG and BAG – $2.78…

We wanted to alert you to a couple of issues that may be resulting in payment delays with current Families First invoices payable by PowerTrack (PT).

LHS Rating Issues – Over the last week there has been a growing number of International HHG invoices that have gone into Audit Exception in PT due to CE07 rating errors in CWA. CE07 rating errors mean that the CWA rating engine was unable to identify the rate area to correctly rate the invoice. …

Daycos will be closed on Friday, July 4th in observance of Independence Day. We will resume our normal business hours on Monday, July 7th.
We thank you for your business and wish you all a safe and fun holiday!…