Daycos News

US Bank/Syncada has communicated to their users that effective May 1, 2011, they will be implementing enhanced log-in security measures. Following is the message that was sent out:

Your security is a U.S. Bank priority, that’s why beginning May 1, when you log in to the Syncada from Visa network, you will be asked for your user ID, password, and a security question. The security questions are available in the User Management System (UMS). Please take this chance to log …

As we mentioned previously, the non-temp storage (NTS) billing process is getting some much needed improvements. NTS invoices will soon be paid electronically by the US Bank payment system, which should reduce payment times considerably.
More details are being released about the planned changes and the new process. There was a Federal Register Notice published Monday, as well as the proposed NTS Electronic Bill Payment Business Rules…. All current NTS contractors should review the proposed business rules and

We recently received an email from the DFAS-Indianapolis Transportation Payment Office advising of a change to their customer service email address. The previous customer service email address, Dtp.customer.service.dfas-in@dfas.mil, will be deactivated and is being replaced by the new email address for the payment office, DTPCustomerService@DFAS.MIL. Following is the message that we received:

Effective immediately, The Indianapolis Transportation Payment Operation, Customer Service email address streamlines to just one email inquiry address pathway DTPCustomerService@DFAS.MIl. This NEW email inquiry link is also available …

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:

• Army Claims Starts Offset Process
• SDDC Offers Update on Program Efficiency Review, Seeks Industry Feedback
• Daycos Employees Hit the Bowling Alley
• 2011 Filed DPS Rates Needed

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Earlier this week, we wrote about a policy changes under consideration that would aid peak season capacity, the suspension of the 70% rule. Another change that has been discussed is the possibility of SDDC issuing SIT saturation notices this summer, in order to allow TSPs to bill delivery out of SIT from actual storage location.
When the change was made to the 2011  tariffs that all mileage on deliveries out of SIT would be based on Block 18 of …

It’s that time of year again! We are quickly approaching the start of the summer season, and the May 15th implementation of the recently filed 2011 DPS rates. Since there are no publicly published DPS rates, Daycos needs to obtain the DPS filed rates from our customers.
We have a few options for obtaining filed rates for our billing purposes. Daycos can pull your rates directly from DPS at the time of billing, but keep in mind that if we…

…During the recent SDDC Symposium and Personal Property Forum (PPF), there was a lot of discussion about the upcoming peak season. While much of it centered on what has or hasn’t been done to alleviate the problems from last season, there was one area of discussion that could alleviate some of the peak season problems.
Industry has made a strong push for SDDC and the services to consider suspending the 70% rule during the peak season. The 70% rule states

…USTRANSCOM recently posted a Federal Register Notice announcing their intent to eliminate local moves when Phase 3 of the DP3 program is implemented. The Domestic and International Local Move Tenders, as well as the Intra-Country Move Tender would be eliminated under the proposed changes. The Domestic moves will be absorbed into the current Domestic Household Goods market, and moved as Code D shipments under the 400NG tariff. The International moves will be under a new code of service, Code C,

As you might expect given the recent DPS system issues, JPMO-HHGS’ March Monthly Activity Report (formerly known as the WAR report) contained numerous references to the system’s problems and downtime. Col. Mike Miller noted in his executive summary that system uptime for March was 95%, which is below their goal of 98%. Col. Miller went on to note:

“In addition, we formed a Tiger Team with representatives from across the enterprise to come to root cause and to fix …

…The much discussed implementation of offsets in the US Bank Payment system has begun, albeit in a small way. According to Cheryl Garcia from US Bank, the Army Claims office initiated a test of the new offset process, by initiating three separate offsets. US Bank and the Army are closely monitoring these three offsets, and if the offset functionality works as intended, TSPs can expect that the Army will move ahead with full implementation of offset on all outstanding TSP