This transport assessment tool can be used to review the performance of a transport system that manages any health commodity.... Read more
Author: USAID | DELIVER PROJECT
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Document type: Tools and guides
Language: English
This job aid answers frquently asked questions (FAQs) about the process, benefits, and outcomes of effective supportive supervision techniques to use in supply chain management contexts.... Read more
Author: USAID | DELIVER PROJECT
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Document type: Tools and guides
Language: English
This paper describes the need for sustainable, reliable, well performing health supply chains in order to assure access to health supplies, and thus for positive health outcomes. Limitations on supply chain performance stem, inpart, from the lack of a qualified supply chain workforce within health systems, which in turn is... Read more
Author: People That Deliver
Technical area: Human resources
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Language: English
This process guide and sample curriculum outline offers programs, governments, and projects interested in implementing pre-service training (PST) for supply chain management of health commodities a general understanding of the process, stages, steps, and activities required for initiating a successful PST training program.... Read more
Author: USAID | DELIVER PROJECT
Technical area: Human resources
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Language: English
This document describes a logistics management unit, how it can be structured, the reasons for advocacy, and suggestions on how to begin. Also included are illustrations using country examples.... Read more
Author: USAID | DELIVER PROJECT
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Document type: Technical briefs
Language: English
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
Author: Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition, USAID | DELIVER PROJECT
Technical area: Human resources
Document type: Tools and guides
Language: English
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
Author: Taylor Wilkerson, LMI
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Document type: Technical briefs
Language: English
This June 2011 brief tells the story of how, with USAID and SCMS support, Zimbabwe was able to successfully scale up their procurement and distribution of HIV/AIDS commodies and simultaneously make significant improvements to their supply chain management capacity through the establishment of a Logistics Sub Unit (LSU).... Read more
Author: Supply Chain Management System (SCMS)
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Document type: Country reports
Language: English