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SDDC Issues Notice on DPS Rating Problems

This morning, SDDC sent out a notice to TSPs… concerning some DPS rating issues. It specifically addressed known rating problems with LHS, 105J (400NG – Storage Inspection Fee), 105A (400NG – Full Pack/Unpack), and 513A (IT – Fuel Surcharge).
We have been working with SDDC and JPMO-HHGS on rating problems with all of these items, many of which are caused by DPS pulling 2010 rates, instead of 2011 rates. However, they didn’t give any details about the problems they were

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Daycos Offers Uncollectable Invoice Follow-Up Service

With the summer season winding down, many TSPs are now finding the time to clean up some of their outstanding invoices. There are likely to be some invoices that, despite substantial effort, have not been paid. The problem may be a technical issue that causes an invoice to be repeatedly rejected, an incorrect calculation in your billing program, or perhaps somebody involved in the invoicing approval process dropped the ball. Regardless of the reason, in today’s environment, TSPs need to
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New DPS Invoicing Transmission Issue Identified

Just as the recent transmission problems with CWA seems to be resolved, a new transmission problem involving DPS has appeared. During the last week, we have had over 1,400 invoices that have failed to move from the DPS system to the US Bank payment system, despite all line items being approved or denied. We first noticed the problem on Tuesday of last week with a small number of invoices, but the number has continued to grow each day.
You may…

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Fuel Surcharge for Period 11/15/10 to 12/14/10

The price of fuel was $3.07 per gallon as reported on Monday, November 1, 2010 making the upcoming FSC rates for the period 11/15/10 through 12/14/10 as follows:

GBL Domestic HHG / International HHG & UB – 6%
GSA Domestic HHG – $0.56
GSA International HHG and BAG – $0.56…

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CWA Invoicing Delays

Over the last week, we have experienced a number of problems accessing and successfully transmitting invoices to CWA. Initially, we were having problems logging into CWA to pull our daily reports and monitor invoices. Shortly after we began to notice that very few invoices were going to, or coming from CWA. Because we were unable to log in to CWA and access our reporting, we were not sure where the transmission errors were happening and contacted both the CWA and…

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Corrected Invoices

A few weeks ago, we wrote… about the delays with invoices processing to payment in PowerTrack. Initially, users were having problems getting with PowerTrack accepting manual and electronic updates to existing invoices in PowerTrack. The issue with making manual updates has been corrected, however, to date, we are still unable to submit a corrected invoice to electronically make changes to a previously submitted invoice. We have been in contact with PowerTrack/Syncada daily and understand they have escalated the issue, but

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Payment Delays in PowerTrack

We were advised by Syncada/PowerTrack mid-week last week that invoices previously submitted to PowerTrack that had changes or corrections made to them in PowerTrack last week, either manually through the PowerTrack User Interface, or electronically via EDI, were not maintaining the updates that had been made.
We have been monitoring the situation closely, as we submit a number of corrected invoices daily from our office to match Audit Exception invoices as part of our follow-up service to our billing customers.…

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Tariff Updates for DW09

Our billing program and AccuBill have recently been updated with the DW09 changes found in the D-17 Solicitation that went into effect for Domestic shipments with pickup dates of 11/01/09 and after.
The changes are as follows:

DOM – new tariff updates (D-17)
The listed ‘Summary of Changes’ for the new tariff contain verbiage changes, no programming required.
1. Added wording to Item 402 (packing and unpacking): The PPSO may also authorize crating for any size flat screen television but …

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Tariff Updates for IW09

Our billing program and AccuBill have recently been updated with the IW09 changes found in the I-23 Solicitation that went into effect for International shipments with pickup dates of 10/01/09 and after.

The changes are as follows:
INT/BAG – new tariff updates (I-23)
1. Updated rate for Extra Pickup/Delivery Overseas, excluding Alaska and Hawaii to 29.10 was 14.10.
2. Updated rate for excess over 100 Miles Extra Pickup/Delivery to .20 was .10.
3. Item 513 – Fuel Surcharge (CONUS, Including …

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Fuel Surcharge for Period 7/15/09 to 8/14/09

The price of fuel was $2.59 per gallon as reported on Monday, July 6, 2009 making the upcoming FSC rates for the period 7/15/09 through 8/14/09 as follows:

GBL Domestic HHG / International HHG & UB – 1%
GSA Domestic HHG – $0.95
GSA International HHG and BAG – $0.95…

NOTE – With the reported cost of fuel now exceeding the $2.50 baseline amount the fuel adjustment will apply for the first time in six months for the specified period.

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