1. Warehouse Operations
(Induction & Orientation on WHOs
Department)
April 27, 2012

2. ORGANIZATION OF OPERATIONS DIVISION
Operations
Division
Warehouse Quality Trading Central Clearing Market
Operation Operation Operation Depository House Data
Departmen Departmen Departmen Departmen Departmen Departmen
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3. ORGANIZATION OF WAREHOUSE OPERATIONS
Warehouse Operations
Manager
Specialist Regional
s Coordinators
Warehouse
Data Supervisors
Assistants
Data Sub Contracted
LIC and ICS
Assistants Staff
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4.  Data Assistants:
1. Voucher Entry
2. Coder
3. Issuer
4. GRN Creator
5. GIN Creator
 Inventory Management
1. Lead Inventory Controller
2. Inventory Controller
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5. FUNCTIONS OF WAREHOUSE OPERATIONS
Receipt of commodities from depositors and delivery of
the same to the buyers
 Inventory management of commodities
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6. ECX BRANCHES
 Operational in 17 cities
Addis Ababa Gondar Jimma
Dire Dawa, Humera Bedelle
Adama Metema Bonga
Hawassa, Bure Nekemte
Dilla, Kombolcha Gimbi
Sodo Assossa
 The commodities are
Coffee White Pea Beans
Sesame Maize
 With 63 warehouses
 More than 3 million quintals capacity
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7. WAREHOUSE OPERATIONS PROCESS
 Registration of Arrival of trucks
 Sampling
 Coding
Receiving process  Laboratory procedure
 Weighing
Unloading
GRN Creation
WEIGH THE EMPTY TRUCK
LOADING (SHIPPING)
Delivering process
GOODS ISSUING NOTICE (GIN )CREATION
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8. INVENTORY MANAGEMENT
 Non-Identity Preserved – Bag based
 Stored using First-In-First-Out (FIFO)
– Stacked by commodity, class, grade, date
– Warehouse sectioned accordingly
 Preservation of Quality
– Appropriate measures to protect quality
•Frequent inspection
 ECX has standard lot sizes
 Minimum allowable deposit
•50 qtl or multiples of 50 qtl for Grain
•30 qtl or multiples of 30 qtl for Coffee
•PP & Jute Bags
•100kg/85/60kg
 Allowable tolerance on lot weight
•Plus / Minus 4%
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