Daycos News

In our most recent newsletter…, we asked our customers to supply us with their DPS filed rates that will become effective May 15. We have started to see some of those come in, but we wanted to offer a warning to those TSPs who are using DPS Analytics when providing rates.
We have had reports from a couple of different TSPs that there is a potential problem using custom reports in DPS Analytics to provide the rates. Apparently, if

Update: Due to a scheduling conflict, the webinar will now be held on Tuesday, May 25th at 1 PM Central. Registration information will be posted next week. …
Last month, we conducted our first ever webinar, covering the 400NG Linehaul calculation. Our idea was to try the webinar format and see if it was something we would to continue to offer. After having a few weeks to review the outcome of the first webinar, it has become clear to us that

For the first time since the initial DPS shipment was booked… in August, 2008; there were more shipments booked in DPS than in TOPS during last week. According the the latest WAR report from JPMO-HHGS, 52% of all shipments booked last week were booked in DPS. As expected, the inclusion of PPM into DPS has given the numbers a big boost, and it is likely the DPS percentage will continue to increase.
Now it will be interesting to see if

Last month, we wrote about the continued confusion… surrounding the issue of SIT conversion in DPS. We have yet to see the written guidance from SDDC on the topic of conversion from SIT, but some continued conversations on the DPS invoicing calls may have helped to clarify the issue.
On the April 8th DPS invoicing call, a TSP asked a question about this issue, and the response from SDDC confirmed that the TSP is entitled to SIT until the shipment

The Daycos April Monthly Newsletter has been sent out, and can be viewed here. A few of the topics in this month’s newsletter include:

• 2010 DPS Filed Rates Needed
• Encrypted Link Addition Hopes to Increase Survey Response Rate
• What is Syncada, and What Happened to PowerTrack?
• Daycos Gets a Facelift!

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Last July, US Bank  announced a joint partnership with Visa to launch Syncada, a business-to-business payment network. Then TSPs were informed… by US Bank that PowerTrack was being re-branded as Syncada, with a new URL and logos. Other than those two pieces of information, TSPs have not had a lot of information about this change, and the result is a lot of confusion about what change has actually occurred and what it means to TSPs.
We thought it might

“After extensive testing and evaluation, the Service Headquarters have determined the PPM module meets the minimum requirements for execution. Effective 15 April 2010, all PPM applications will be processed in DPS.”

Those are the first two lines from the PPM Execution Order, a joint message from the Military Services which was shared with the DPS user group late yesterday. This order is the trigger that will drastically increase the number of shipments being booked in DPS. The functionality was added …

A few notes from the most recent DPS/DP3 WAR report covering April 3-9:

• Decision to use PPM and change the JFTR being worked by the services.  Next per diem MAP 13 Apr, Tue.  Next likely date for PPM “go live” is 15 Apr…6 days and counting! (from  Executive Summary by Col. Miller)
• Upcoming GOSC:  The co-chairs are looking to hold the next GOSC in the DC area in about mid May.  More details to come. (from  Executive Summary by Col.

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In the past month, Daycos has expanded our communication efforts into some new areas in the “social media” sector. One of those areas was the creation of a Fan Page on Facebook….  We wanted to take this opportunity to explain why we have chosen to create a Facebook page, and why you should consider becoming a fan of the Daycos page so that you can interact with our Facebook updates.
We realize that many businesses are rushing to create

The price of fuel was $3.02 per gallon as reported on Monday, April 5, 2010 making the upcoming FSC rates for the period 4/15/10 through 5/14/10 as follows:

GBL Domestic HHG / International HHG & UB – 6%
GSA Domestic HHG – $0.51
GSA International HHG and BAG – $0.51…