An innovation way of collecting nation wide food assistance information for the Ethiopian National Disaster Risk Management Commission (NDRMC) supply chain utilizing SMS, USSD and the commodity Allocation & Tracking System (CATS).

1. SMARTFACE AND
CONVEYER LOADER
FMIP is a project deeply ingrained in the current WFP strategy to transfer skills
and capacity to the Government of Ethiopia, to be able to Lead and manage food
assistance responses in the Country. FMIP builds the GoE capacity through
building and transferring the tools to the NDRMC that help in improving the
effectiveness and efficiency of the response and increase accountability and
visibility of food assistance commodities through the supply chain.
Accurate and
Timely Reports
Conveyer Loader
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1Introducing conveyer truck loaders at the
store means that storekeepers will be free
to focus on accurately counting and
control the total amount of commodities
coming in or going out from their store.
QR codes using
Smarphones
2
Barcode/QR code readers scan the
commodity information.
The barcode/QR code will be
automatically uploaded to CATS from the
store using custom built application.
The system will generate daily
store ledger entries from data
collected through the
smartphone
Real time incoming
commodity information as
they are happening in every
warehouse.
Storekeepers at the FDP where commodities
have been delivered use basic phone to send
delivery information referencing goods issue
ticket from the warehouse and indicating the
amount received.
1/2 Workload
on storekeepers
Easy and Accurate count of
Incoming and Outgoing
commodity
3CATS
5Real Time
Notifications
USSD For Distribution
Commodity from
WH to FDP
Critical Info of flow
Sent to FDP
FDP Delivery
Using USDD Code
on any phone
4
Generate Store
ledger reports