IEBC will stop voter registration 60 days to next year's general election and authorise printing of ballot papers 36 days to the August 8 date.
According to the road map unveiled by the commission, public officers running for elective office have to quit by February 9 next year, a month before IEBC gives notice of the general election.
IEBC will conclude recruitment of returning officers and their deputies by March 31 next year while the recruitment of presiding officers, their deputies and clerks will be completed by May 24 next year.
In 2013, key electoral staff were ill prepared and did not know how to use critical technology leading to failure of both the electronic voter identification devices and the electronic transmission system.
This time, ballot papers will still be printed abroad but the supplier remains anonymous.
The ballot papers will be airlifted between July 8 and July 25 next year and clearance at the airport will take five days before distribution to constituencies kicks off on August 1.
Cord leader Raila Odinga says UK firm Smith & Ouzman, whose directors were jailed for bribing electoral officials during the 2013 election, printed excess ballot papers allegedly used to rig the polls.
Inspection of poling stations and testing of the transmission system will be done three days to the polls, the elections operations plan launched yesterday indicates.
The Commission on Administrative Justice has advised IEBC to start packing up to allow a new body to conduct the election.
IEBC chairman Isaack Hassan yesterday said: “The fact we have launched a road map one year, seven months to the election is testiment to the fact much has changed in the commission.
“At this time during the lat election, we didn't even know the election date."