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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Supervision and On-the-Job Training for Supply Chain Management at the Health Facility

These supervision guidelines serve as a resource for both supervisors and supervisees in how to prepare for a supervision visit, what to expect during a visit, and what follow-up actions should be taken post-visit. A sample supervision checklist complete with job aids provides county programs with ready-to-use guidelines that can... Read more

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Quantification of Health Commodities: Contraceptive Companion Guide, Forecasting Consumption of Contraceptive Supplies

This is the companion guide to Quantification of Health Commodities: A Guide to Forecasting and Supply Planning for Procurement to be used by program managers, service providers, and technical experts when conducting a quantification of commodity needs and costs for short-acting, long-acting, and permanent methods of contraception.... Read more

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Model guidance for the storage and transport of time- and temperature- sensative pharmaceutical products

These WHO guidelines set out the principal requirements for the safe storage and distribution of time and temperature-sensative pharmaceutical products (TTSPPs). The target audience includes regulators, logisticians, and pharmaceutical professionals in industry, government, and international agencies. WHO Technical Report Series, No.961, 2011, Annex 9... Read more

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Governing Tangible Risk: The SCOR Model

In this chapter from X-SCM: The New Science of X-treme Supply Chain Management, Taylor Wilkerson examines how a structured approach is needed to identify and manage potential risks throughout today’s extended global supply chains. Managing supply chain risk demands a tool that focuses resources where they are most effective.... Read more

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