Document type: Tools and guides

The Logistics Handbook: A Practical Guide for the Supply Chain Management of Health Commodities

The Logistics Handbook offers practical guidance in managing the supply chain, with an emphasis on health commodities. It is intended to help program managers who design, manage, and assess logistics systems for health programs. In addition, policymakers, system stakeholders, and anyone working in logistics will also find it helpful as... Read more

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Le Manuel de logistique: guide pratique à l’attention des responsables de la chaîne d’approvisionnement dans le cadre des programmes de santé et de planification familiale

Le Manuel de logistique reprend les principaux aspects de la gestion logistique, avec un accent sur les produits contraceptifs. Le texte devrait s’avérer utile aux responsables qui travaillent quotidiennement avec des approvisionnements, ainsi qu’aux responsables chargés d’évaluer et de concevoir des systèmes logistiques pour des programmes en entier. Les principaux... Read more

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Human Resource Capacity in Public Health Supply Chain Management: Assessment Guide

The overall purpose of this Human Resource Capacity in Public Health Supply Chain Management Assessment Guide is to document the state of a country’s human resource capacity in supply chain management and professionalization efforts in public health supply chains and identify professionalization efforts spearheaded by the Ministry of Health and... Read more

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Guidelines for Managing the Malaria Supply Chain: A Companion to the Logistics Handbook

A practical guidebook on supply chain management with an emphasis on antimalarial health products. The text should be helpful to program managers who design, manage, and assess logistics systems for malaria programs. Policy makers, system stakeholders, and others whose jobs relate to antimalarial product supply chains will also find this... Read more

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Guide for Quantifying ARV Drugs

The primary focus and purpose of this guide is to describe the process and the methodologies used for quantifying antiretroviral (ARV) drug needs. Quantification of health commodities is a process that includes estimating the quantities and the cost of products required to meet customer demand and to fill the pipeline... Read more

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A Guide for Preparing, Mapping, and Linking Logistics Data to a Geographic Information System, February 2012

This guide is an introduction on how to integrate logistics management information systems (LMIS) with geographic information systems (GIS). The aim of this guide is to assist logistics managers, decisionmakers and technical experts in understanding the value of integrating GIS and of the process involved in integrating these two systems.... Read more

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