It's my understanding after reading the 3PM, that the member themselves complete a TDY request to be sent to the AO. Can someone tell me if generating orders from FDP is an authorized practice? Why would the AO be completing orders in FDP, when they should be completed in TPAX? I would think that the orders should be coming out of TPAX, if they are not already generated out of DA. I have never completed order via FDP and don't understand why this is a practice at some units.
It saves the procurement folks the time of creating the TONO.
I've done all 3 methods (T-Pax, FPD, and regular ole orders). I have the least amount of issues come up doing hand typed paper orders. So that is exactly how I do it now (again). When the traveler goes to create the settlement in T-Pax they enter the same information... no reason to go through the slow and cumbersome login twice.
If TPAX talked to FPD it would be a better world. If your asking an accounting person they will complete the orders in FPD to make sure that the money was obligated.
A YN would complete the orders in TPAX (or actually have the member do that then approve it) so that the travel claim could be processed quicker.
I hope we dump TPAX soon and go to a system that talks to FPD.
Generating your orders in T-pax merely maps over the information when you do submit your claim so you only need to enter it once. But it does not obligate unit funds.
It would be a seet world if FPD could talk with T-pax, but the cost of contracting that to happen happen far exceeds the need.
T-pax is the only fully functioning Travel reimbursement program in the U.S. The Coast Guard is lucky to have it.
DTS is supposed to come online and become mandatory, but it is more difficult to use than T-pax and not at flexible.
I am personally proud of the T-Pax system and the Coast Guard for blazing the way for the other services. If you saw how slow their systems are you would rethink your general complaints that the system is too slow.
The reponse is slow because T-pax is hosted thru Citrix and the Citrix server is shared with many other programs. If T-Pax had its own server, response time is a quarter of what the field experiences.
T-pax currently Routes from you thru the Citrix Server at the Finance Center who accesses the database at PSC and then PSC sends the info back to Fincen who routes it to you.
Just imagine if how fast it would be if you could go directly to the Database.
