International Association of Public Health Logisiticians
This brief describes the definition, purpose, and objectives of utilizing standard operating procedures (SOPs) to guide key supply chain management processes. The document outlines how SOPs can be useful tools to streamline storage, ordering, procurement, dispensing, and other core SCM processes.... Read more
Author: USAID | DELIVER PROJECT
Technical area:
Document type: Technical briefs
Language: English
Learn how SCMS ensures rapid response to program needs and protects local supply chain infrastructure from overload, thus enabling scale-up.... Read more
Author: Supply Chain Management System (SCMS)
Technical area: Storage and distribution
Document type: Technical briefs
Language: English
The deployment of mobile automated data capture technologies within the framework of GS1 data standards can enable a mature and universal global healthcare delivery network, substantially reducing one of the largest operational costs in the healthcare industry today — supply chain management.... Read more
Author: Motorola
Technical area: Private sector
Document type: Technical briefs
Language: English
Logistics brief discussing why supply chain integration is the most effective way to both improve customer service and lower costs.... Read more
Author: USAID | DELIVER PROJECT
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Document type: Technical briefs
Language: English
Improving maternal and child health is a global priority. An estimated 8.1 million children under the age of five die every year and an estimated 1 000 women – most of them in developing countries – die every day due to complications during pregnancy or childbirth.... Read more
Author: World Health Organization (WHO)
Technical area:
Document type: Technical briefs
Language: English
This brief provides basic information about the practice of testing condoms to confirm the quality after they arrive in-country, but before they are released for distribution.... Read more
Author: USAID | DELIVER PROJECT
Technical area:
Document type: Technical briefs
Language: English
This technical brief discusses that without a well-planned procurement process, HIV/AIDS programs in developing countries risk stockouts, costly emergency purchases and overpurchasing. To leverage economies of scale in procurement, SCMS provides a consolidated procurement mechanism that results in lower prices, increased coordination between suppliers and recipients, and improved product quality.... Read more
Author: Supply Chain Management System (SCMS)
Technical area: Procurement
Document type: Technical briefs
Language: English
This brief explores ways that public health supply chain managers can adapt commercial sector performance incentives to improve supply chain performance.... Read more
Author: USAID | DELIVER PROJECT
Technical area: Private sector
Document type: Technical briefs
Language: English
This policy brief outlines the standard approach to measuring and analyzing the cost of health care supply chains for the consideration of health planning.... Read more
Author: USAID | DELIVER PROJECT
Technical area: M&E
Document type: Technical briefs
Language: English
This logistics brief provides insight into whether the LSAT is an effective measure of logistics system performance by developing an index from the items the tool measures and then testing the reliability and validity of the index.... Read more
Author: USAID | DELIVER PROJECT
Technical area: M&E
Document type: Technical briefs
Language: English