Temperature excursions can negatively impact the quality of cold-chain health commodities, sometimes rendering them ineffective or even unsafe. From international shipping down to central and regional warehouses and along in-country transport to the last mile, temperature monitoring of ambient products is limited, or in many cases, nonexistent. Without such data, the likelihood of product degradation…
Jean Miller is a senior project manager and systems integration lead with more than 20 years of technical experience implementing Information Technology (IT) solutions of varying size and complexity across the full software development life cycle. Jean specializes in process improvement services, including leveraging ISO 9001 quality management systems and the Capability Maturity Model Integration…
Health product manufacturers and shippers go to great lengths to ensure appropriate storage conditions for cold-chain health commodities, using specialized equipment including vehicles with temperature-controlled truck beds or refrigerated shipping containers. On the other hand, the storage conditions for ambient (non-cold chain) products are not well documented or understood, despite international good distribution practices, which…
Overtime, the Malawi Ministry of Health began to realize the impracticality of its outdated Supply Chain Manager (SCMgr) software, a stand-alone Microsoft Access-based application installed in 33 data entry sites, to collect essential health commodity logistics data nationwide. In February 2017, the USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program-Procurement and Supply Management (GHSC-PSM) project and the Malawi Ministry…
In 2018, Chemonics developed a transportation management tool called TransIT, which is currently being used on the GHSC-PSM project. With engineering support provided by Chemonics’ partner Arizona State University, TransIT uses a cloud-based system that enables access to transportation information anytime and anywhere while minimizing infrastructure, set-up, and maintenance costs. The tool aggregates end-to-end data…
The Global Health Supply Chain – Procurement and Supply Management (GHSC-PSM) program ensures uninterrupted supplies of health commodities by enabling the identification, data capture, and data sharing of every item procured at every point in the supply chain, from manufacturer to dispensary to the end user/patient. This provides security and efficiency in the supply chain…
The intent of this document is to provide guidance to country programs for systematically organizing the work of operationalizing and executing a vision and strategy for pharmaceutical traceability. It is not intended to be prescriptive, but to serve as guidance for developing a vision, strategy, and implementation roadmap specific to the country environment – one…
The Frontier Economies Logistics Lab (FELL) meeting will convene more than 100 forward-thinking supply chain leaders from the private sector, academia, and global development community to exchange ideas and harness commercial tools to enhance supply chains and improve people’s lives in developing countries. “This summer FELL meeting will focus on applying specific commercial tools and…
Medicines distributed at health facilities in small towns in Mauritania, large cities in Nigeria, and remote areas in Cambodia take a long journey to get there. It all starts with the manufacturers that produce them — many of which are based as far away as China or India. Once they have been produced by the…
From our founding in 1975, Chemonics has worked in more than 150 countries to help our clients, partners, and beneficiaries tackle the world’s toughest development challenges. Chemonics optimizes and streamlines global supply chains to provide critical health and other commodities, maximizing value for our clients and creating impact that improves the lives of vulnerable populations.…
With each passing year and technological advancement, society creates more data. This much data can be both a blessing and a curse. We have an expectation that with more data, better decisions will surely follow. Of course, this assumes that we understand what the data is telling us. With so much data coming at us,…
Whether you’re in line at the supermarket or online ordering clothes, nearly every item has a barcode. This barcode is one of many standardized methods for indicating the quality of a product. With a standard method for product identification and data collection, you can track where a product came from and where it is going.…