Daycos News

The Daycos October Monthly Newsletter has been sent out, and can be viewed here. A few of the topics in this month’s newsletter include:
Get Your ‘DPS Survivor’ Souvenir
DP3: One of the ‘P’s Stands for Paper
Daycos Offers Automatic Document Sending
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‘Defense Personal Property Program will create a single, paperless Joint Personal Property Program that integrates and automates all processes that support a personal property move.’ – SDDC DP3 Pamplet ‘Moving in the Right Direction’

This quote from an early SDDC DP3 brochure demonstrates that one of the goals of the new program was to create a paperless system. While this was certainly a noble goal, and one that many TSPs would support, the results from the first year of DP3…

For those of you in attendance at the International Association of Movers Convention in Orlando this week, you heard the mention of the importance of keeping open communication within the industry regarding invoicing issues in DPS. SDDC has listened to the request to allow for open communication of such issues and since June has been providing a call forum for TSP’s to bring up invoicing related DPS questions and issues for their assistance or clarification.
The call is held every…

When logging into get your invoices today, you may notice some changes to the Invoice Search section of our website. We understand that consistent reporting is key when recording your incoming revenue. We have revamped our daily reporting via our website for our billing and AccuBill customers. Aside from the page looking different, there are a number of new features that we would like to point out.
First, we would like to introduce Quick Reports. This section will be replacing…

The price of fuel was $2.58 per gallon as reported on Monday, October 5, 2009 making the upcoming FSC rates for the period 10/15/09 through 11/14/09 as follows:

GBL Domestic HHG / International HHG & UB – 1%
GSA Domestic HHG – $0.08
GSA International HHG and BAG – $0.08

Since the start of DPS, invoicing Alaska shipments under the 400NG tariff has been problematic. Despite numerous patches, updates, bug fixes, every time we billed an Alaskan invoice in the DPS test or production system, the Linehaul rating was always off by a large amount.
PPSOs were apparently instructed to no longer book Alaska shipments in DPS, but we still see a trickle of Alaska invoices through our office, either due to shipments previously booked, or PPSOs not aware of…

The following DPS EDI related notice was recently sent out to TSPs:

There has been some confusion concerning the N4 requirements, depending upon whether the shipment involved CONUS or OCONUS locations. The DPS requirements are dependent upon the applicable tariff and system being used. Attached is a spreadsheet which identifies the mandatory location
information for DPS and CWA.
Power Track is in the process of updating the EDI 859 specification to reflect the DPS information per the attached spreadsheet.

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One of the largest obstacles we currently face in DPS invoicing occurs when there is incorrect data in the DPS system that needs to be changed before an invoice can be successfully submitted. We most often see this with date elements, such as pickup dates and deliver from SIT dates. Incorrect information in these fields will cause valid invoices to be rejected. Also, if weight data is incorrect, the invoice will fail validation, making it impossible for the PPSO to…

At the NDTA Forum held earlier this week in Nashville, Lt Col Dan Bradley of SDDC and Col Mike Miller of JPMO-HHGS conducted a session on the DP3 program. The following are some notes from that meeting:

• Col Miller, the new Program Manager for JPMO-HHGS, emphasized that his desire was to be milestone driven when it comes to DPS implementation, instead of schedule driven. He stated that meant to implement parts of DPS as they were ready, as

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The Daycos August Monthly Newsletter has been sent out, and can be viewed here. A few of the topics in this month’s newsletter include:
DPS Invoicing Survives Summer
SDDC/US Transcom visits Daycos
Daycos Employees Strive to ‘Be Well’
From this point forward we will be sending out our Daycos Newsletter on a monthly basis, rather than quarterly as we have in the past. If you did not receive an email with this month’s newsletter, but would like…