DPS Invoicing Volume Increasing

February 24, 2009 Comments Off

The number of DPS invoices we are processing has slowly, but steadily, continued to rise. As of today, Daycos has submitted 174 invoices to DPS, of which 67 had been paid. We have had 13 invoice go into Audit Exception status, which is about 20% of the total invoices, which is up slightly from our last update.

We are growing increasingly concerned about transmission errors, which occur when invoices fail to move through the approval/payment process due to technical issues. We have had previous instances where invoices have been hung up for many days due to system wide problems at DPS, and we currently have 49 invoices that are “stuck” due to transmission problems, some for as long as two weeks. When the number of invoices submitted is this small, the problems are manageable. However, if the volume of DPS shipments ramps up as quickly as is being proposed, these types of problems will cause massive disruption in the invoicing process.

We continue to work through the other rating discrepancies and related issues with SDDC and JPMO-HHGS. We have not yet seen any widespread problems in this area, but we don’t yet have a huge volume of paid invoices from which to judge. Also, we have not yet been able to successfully rate any Alaska shipments in the test environment, but there is a lot of effort being put forth on that issue, so we would expect resolution to that issue fairly soon.