Addis Ababa institute of technology(AAiT) Department of

. Civil Engineering

Chapter 3

Organization and Management plan

3.1 FORM OF BUSINESS

The business will be registered under the name "MENA private milk-processing plant" as a group
proprietorship and owned by 4 friends: Fasika, Million, Mathios and ebessa. It will have its
business address located at Akaki sub city.

3.2 ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE

The business will be managed by the owners but all of them have their own management tasks.
Fasika melse will act as a general manager, Million demie as a personnel manager, mathios
kassahun as a production manager and ebessa as a marketing manager. A supervisor will be
hired to manage the production process when the owners are not around.

3.3 BUSINESS EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS OF THE ENTREPRENEUR

The entrepreneurs are graduates of civil engineering in 2018. No other prior experience after
graduation.

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Organizational Chart
MENA private milk-processing plant

General Manager

(Fasika)

(Endale) Secretary

(to be hired)

Marketing Production Personnel manager

manager manager
(Million)
(Ebessa) (Mathios)

supervisor

(to be hired)

Daily Laborer

(to be hired)

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3.4 PRE-OPERATING ACTIVITIES

We have listed down the following activities to be undertaken before we can operate our
business:

1. Registering the business - 2 day

2. Preparing the business plan - 4 weeks

3. Applying for a loan and approval - 3 weeks

4. Contacting machinery suppliers - 1 week

5. Installing machineries - 4 weeks

6. Hiring labor - 2 days

7. Purchasing raw materials - 2 days

8. Trial production - 1 week

we aim to start our operation approximately three months after our loan application, or six
weeks after release of our loan.

These pre-operating activities with their corresponding timetable appear in Table in a Gantt
chart.

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MENA private milk-processing plant

Pre operating Activities

Activities Time table in Weeks

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

1. Registering the Business

2. Preparing the Business Plan

3. Applying/Approval of Loan

4. Contacting machinery Suppliers

5. Installing the Machinery

6. Hiring Labour

7. Purchasing Raw Material

8. Trial Production

Table Gantt chart

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