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Open Source Software for Managing Health Supply Chains
Author: Open LMIS
Technical area: LMIS
Document type: Tools and guides
Language: English
Technical area: LMIS
Six Years of Saving Lives through Stronger Public Health Supply Chains
In 2005, PEPFAR—through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in partnership with JSI—established the Supply Chain Management System (SCMS) to provide a reliable, cost-effective and secure supply of products for HIV/AIDS programs in 16 countries. Six years after their creation, SCMS now provides over 71 percent of all anti-retroviral medicines... Read more
Author: Supply Chain Management System (SCMS), USAID
Technical area: Finance and costing, Forecasting and supply planning, Human resources, LMIS, M&E, Private sector, Procurement, Storage and distribution
Document type: Technical briefs
Language: English
Integration of Vaccine Supply Chains With Other Health Commodity Supply Chains: A Framework for Decision-Making
This evidence brief, developed by project Optimize, examines the benefits, challenges, and rationale for integrating vaccine supply chains with the supply chains of other health commodities. It provides agencies, donors, decision-makers, and partners with a brief overview of supply chain integration and lessons learned during project Optimize’s demonstration activities in... Read more
Author: Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH), World Health Organization (WHO)
Technical area: cold chain, Forecasting and supply planning, LMIS, Procurement, Storage and distribution
Document type: Technical briefs
Language: English
OPTIMIZE South Sudan Report 2013
Project Optimize, a five-year partnership between the World Health Organization (WHO) and PATH, conducted a small implementation activity in South Sudan. The goal of the activity was to test the feasibility and usefulness of implementing a mobile and cloud-based vaccine stock management information system capable of providing EPI staff at... Read more
Author: Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH), World Health Organization (WHO)
Technical area: cold chain, LMIS
Document type: Country reports
Language: English
Analysis of challenges of medical supply chains in sub-Saharan Africa regarding inventory management and transport and distribution
The World Health Organization defines access to medicine as a priority for citizens, where a functioning medicine supply chain is necessary. This paper identifies challenges for reliable medicine supply chains with effective in-country distribution systems regarding the medicine availability due to inventory management and transport and distribution. The findings in... Read more
Author: Anna Schöpperle, University of Westminster
Technical area: LMIS, Storage and distribution
Document type: Technical briefs
Language: English
Supply Chain Integration: Seamlessly Linking the Pieces
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Author: USAID | DELIVER PROJECT
Technical area: Finance and costing, Forecasting and supply planning, Human resources, LMIS, M&E, Private sector, Procurement, Storage and distribution
Document type: Technical briefs
Language: English
Handbook of Humanitarian Health Care Logistics
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Author: G. McGuire
Technical area: cold chain, Human resources, LMIS, M&E, Storage and distribution
Document type: Tools and guides
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Reducing Stock-Outs of Life Saving Malaria Commodities Using Mobile Phone Text-Messaging: SMS for Life Study in Kenya
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Author: Agneta M. Mbithi, Alex N. Muturi, Andrew Nyandigisi, Andrew Wamari, Dejan Zurovac, Dorothy Memusi, George Jagoe, Jim Barrington, Robert W. Snow, Samwel Kigen, Sophie Githinji
Technical area: LMIS, M&E
Document type: Technical briefs
Language: English
The Logistics Handbook: A Practical Guide for the Supply Chain Management of Health Commodities; Chapter 10: Logistics System Design
The Logistics Handbook, updated in 2011, offers practical guidance in managing the supply chain, with an emphasis on health commodities. This chapter on System Design outlines the context, process, considerations, and guidelines for designing a logistics system as well as the technical aspects related to system design and implications of... Read more
Author: USAID | DELIVER PROJECT
Technical area: LMIS
Document type:
Language: English
Software Fact Sheet: Supply Chain Manager
This document is a Fact Sheet on Supply Chain Manager, a computerized logistics management information system (LMIS), which helps aggregate and analyze logistics data from the facility level. Supply Chain Manager supports integrated supply chains by enabling health organizations to track the products used.... Read more
Author: USAID | DELIVER PROJECT
Technical area: LMIS
Document type:
Language: English