Last week We started to go live with the Travel and Procurement modules in Kenya and Ethiopia and so far all goes well; more and more orders are filled in on line in OCS and all seems to be working. Please keep on providing your feedback and questions to our service desk : Servicedesk@CIARG.org Continue reading
We have heard about OCS (*) for a while now, and One Corporate System is due to get launched in September 2015 at ILRI. We imagine you may have some questions about it, or might just be curious to know what the system looks like, particularly around the three modules that will be launched this … Continue reading
Just to keep you all updated on the OCS developments: During the last month our team has been vigorously testing all OCS modules with a big group of users from various departments. Thanks to the great input of these users, we were able to make a lot of improvements to the system and are now … Continue reading
Hereby a quick update on the OCS implementation: After 3 weeks, we now entered the final week of intensive technical testing. Almost all modules technical and aspects of the software have now been tested successfully by our technical team: Various fixes and improvements have been made, and by the end of the week the system … Continue reading
The One Corporate System (OCS) project is an initiative of nine CGIAR Centres and the Consortium Office to implement a common business information system for managing: human resources and payroll, finance and logistics (travel authorization and expenditure reporting, procurement and inventory, fixed assets management), research and project management, planner (budgeting) and project costing and billing. … Continue reading
New supervisor of the OCS implementation, Misja Brandenburg is happy to inform you about the current status and plans with OCS. Remember what OCS is? One Corporate System. A CGIAR-wide initiative to implement the same business system (software) for managing human resources, financial management, procurement, project management etc. OCS will replace many of the current systems … Continue reading
This week, Nairobi campus hosts a number of communication awareness and training activities. Here Ewen Le Borgne reflects on ways ILRI can make better use of knowledge sharing and communication. ILRI is, rightly, putting communication at the centre of its operations. ILRI’s Director General Jimmy Smith repeatedly pleads for more, better communication, internally and externally. … Continue reading
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