Daycos News

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

• Are Payee Codes Still Necessary?
• Meet the Daycos Staff
• DPS Payment Times Before the Billing Peak Season
• Registration Open for Personal Property Forum (PPF) Winter 2010

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When DFAS shut down the DTRS system… in June, everyone was under the realization that DFAS’ ability for EDI processing was obsolete.  What was not immediately realized, was that DTRS managed more than just the electronic invoice processing.
Shortly after DTRS was shut down, we contacted DFAS personnel regarding a carrier setup that required a new payee code.   Payee codes are the unique 4-digit numeric identifier that DFAS issued a carrier to determine the carriers payee account information during electronic

There has been considerable discussion  about the causes of peak season problems this summer, and most agree that there are many factors that have come into play to cause these issues. One factor that has been mentioned is the DPS distribution model, and a recent phone call we received from a TSP offered an excellent example of how the DPS distribution model can contribute to the peak season problems.
This small TSP had gone all year without a single DPS…

While many TSPs may be in the middle of peak season, or maybe even seeing the light at the end of the tunnel, we are just entering our …peak season. July, August, and September are traditionally the busiest months for invoicing, and we are expecting those months to be very busy this year. So we thought it would be a good time to take a look at some DPS invoicing payment times to see how they are looking heading into

Our recent post about the reactions to the peak season issues… has drawn some interest, and we wanted to share a few of the comments we have received about the article.
John Johnson, Chief of Personal Property Branch at SDDC, contacted us to make a couple of points about the peak season problems. Since the article outlined a couple of the Services’ theories about the cause of the problems, John wanted to share his thoughts on that question from SDDC’s

The price of fuel was $2.92 per gallon as reported on Monday, July 5, 2010 making the upcoming FSC rates for the period 7/15/10 through 8/14/10 as follows:

GBL Domestic HHG / International HHG & UB – 5%
GSA Domestic HHG – $0.42
GSA International HHG and BAG – $0.42…

Each week, JPMO-HHGS provides a Weekly Activity Report (aka WAR report) to the Services and DPS TSP user group. One of the prominant statistics tracked in this WAR report is the percentage of shipments that are booked in DPS vs. TOPS. We have gone back and reviewed  the WAR reports since PPM was implemented in DPS, and have compiled this chart showing the percentages of shipments booked in DPS each week (note: No percentage was given for the week ending…

The Daycos office will be closed on Monday, July 5th in observance of Independence Day. Our normal office hours will resume at 8:00am CST on Tuesday, July 6th.
We wish everyone a safe and happy holiday weekend!…

The household goods industry is currently experiencing a very difficult summer peak season. There will be lots of time to assign blame… determine the causes of the numerous peak season problems, but in general it is safe to say we are seeing the perfect storm of circumstances that has led us to the current situation. Some of the causes frequently mentioned include : decreased TSP capacity, increased demand in commercial sector, new program fully implemented immediately prior to peak season,