This guide is a practical reference for those managing or involved in setting up a storeroom or warehouse. It contains written directions and clear illustrations on receiving and arranging commodities; special storage conditions; tracking commodities; maintaining the quality of the products; constructing and designing a medical store; and waste management;... Read more
Author: USAID | DELIVER PROJECT, World Health Organization (WHO)
Technical area: Storage and distribution
Document type: Tools and guides
Language: English
This paper describes the function and organization of laboratory services and the commodities needed for laboratory services, and it discusses supply chain considerations for management of laboratory commodities.... Read more
Author: USAID | DELIVER PROJECT
Technical area:
Document type: Tools and guides
Language: English
A list of key points that should be followed by all storage facilities along the supply chain to ensure quality health commodities for the end user.... Read more
Author: USAID | DELIVER PROJECT
Technical area: Storage and distribution
Document type:
Language: English
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
Author: USAID | DELIVER PROJECT
Technical area:
Document type: Tools and guides
Language: English
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
Author: USAID | DELIVER PROJECT
Technical area: Human resources
Document type: Tools and guides
Language: English
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
Author: World Health Organization (WHO)
Technical area: cold chain, Storage and distribution
Document type:
Language: English
This document outlines how geographic information systems (GIS) as part of a facility-based supply chain assessment can help identify logistics issues that may be specific to certain areas of a country. GIS adds value to information that is obtained with the Logistics Indicator Assessment Tool (LIAT) by increasing ways data... Read more
Author: USAID | DELIVER PROJECT
Technical area: M&E
Document type:
Language: English
A list of key points that should be followed by all storage facilities along the supply chain to ensure quality health commodities for the end user.... Read more
Author: USAID | DELIVER PROJECT
Technical area: Storage and distribution
Document type:
Language: French