Dear Colleagues, ILRI Ethiopia Stores Unit will carry out the End of Year Stock-take exercise from Wednesday 29th December to Friday 31th December 2021. During this period, only emergency requests will be attended. You are therefore requested to submit your Warehouse Order requests through the OCS up to Monday 27th December 2021 only. Normal operations … Continue reading
Category Archives: OCS
ILRI Kenya: Stores Unit Closure for 2021 First Quarter Stock-take Exercise.
Dear Colleagues, ILRI Kenya Stores Unit will carry out the First Quarter Stock-take exercise from Tuesday 30th March to Wednesday 31st March 2021. During this period, only emergency requests will be attended to. You are therefore requested to submit your Warehouse Order requests through the OCS by mid-day, Friday 26th March 2021. Normal operations will … Continue reading
Foreign Currency Saving Account
Dear Colleagues The National Bank of Ethiopia has issued a directive to the establishment and operation of a foreign currency saving account. The directive that has come into effect starting from November 19, 2020, allowed Ethiopian residents, Non-resident Ethiopians, and Non-Resident Ethiopian Origin to open interest-bearing or interest-free foreign currency accounts in US Dollars, Pound … Continue reading
ILRI Ethiopia 1st Quarter Stock-take
Dear Colleagues, ILRI Ethiopia Stores Unit will carry out the 2019 – 1st Quarter Stock-take exercise from 28th – 29th March 2019. During this period, only emergency requests will be attended. You are therefore kindly requested to submit your Warehouse Order requests through the OCS by mid-day, Wednesday 27th March 2019. Normal operations will resume … Continue reading
Time registration
Dear all, Just for keeping you informed, refreshing your memory, and answering some of your questions related to time registration: · YES, time registration is still mandatory for all scientists, project staff and most research support staff (like CKM, RMG and now also EOHS) · 2016 has been closed and can no longer be used … Continue reading
Travel PERDIEM procedures
To all (travelling) ILRI staff: We have noticed some irregularities concerning the calculation of perdiem rates, and I would therefor like to refresh your memory by pointing out two things: 1) The daily perdiem amount is not always paid in full, but certain parts of it must be deducted if the journey did not span … Continue reading
Closing 2016 books of accounts
ILRI 2016 financial year is coming to an end and we plan to close the system for posting any 2016 transactions on the 12th January 2017. To ensure we do not misrepresent or under estimate our financial statements for 2016, that our donor reports capture all expenses for the reporting period ending December 2016, we … Continue reading
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ILRI Ethiopia stores unit – mid year counting
Dear All, ILRI Ethiopia stores unit will closed to carry out the 2016 mid-Year Stock-take exercise 22–24 June, 2016. You are therefore, kindly requested to submit your Warehouse Order requests through the OCS before June 22, 2016. Normal operations will resume on Monday, 27 June 2016. Apologies for short notice and any inconveniences this may … Continue reading
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OCS update
Let me start with wishing you all a happy 2016: The year that we will have to make some more significant steps in OCS implementation and can start picking the fruits from it. We went fully live with the last part of phase 1 in October and it seems we were reasonably successful; for example … Continue reading
OCS -LIVE !!!!!!
Happy to announce that today Nairobi and Addis went fully live with all phase 1 OCS modules. This means that as of today, the ‘paper-trail’ procedures for the travel and procurement are history and will no longer be accepted. As of now, all travel request, travel expense requests and Procurement request can only be done … Continue reading
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