- By 2013, ensure that accurate essential logistics data for vital and essential health commodities are being regularly recorded and reported by each SDP/site for replenishment and supply planning purposes.
- By 2013, strengthen the national quality assurance system for health commodities procured, stored, and distributed in country.
- By 2013, attain efficient customer-focused warehousing and distribution operations that ensure best practices in the management of products, the processing of orders, and the delivery of orders to customers.
Activities and Impact
Date Management: Develop and implement a national LMIS for HIV/AIDS products and ensure that accurate logistics data is aggregated, analyzed and disseminated for decision making.
Quality Assurance: Support MOH in designing an accreditation or certification standard for its supply chain, and implement a system to enable logistics management at hospitals and clinics to meet quality assurance standards. Support the Drug Regulatory Unit to increase the range of registered formulations and suppliers to promote access to quality vital and essential drugs.
Strategic Planning and Coordination: Strengthen coordinating mechanism at the MOH level for supply chain management-related information sharing and decision making.
Forecasting and Planning: Provide technical assistance to MOH technical team to prepare realistic and demand driven (evidence based) 24-month forecasts and annual supply plans that are implemented and reviewed quarterly to support accurate procurement process.
Procurement: Institutionalize standardized tools to support a responsive demand driven procurement system which provides at least 90% of high quality HIV/AIDS products to meet the facility demands. This is in addition to:
- Strengthening capacity for the decentralized Public Procurement & Asset Disposal Board structures to efficiently process tenders for health commodity procurements.
- Developing a responsive SCMS procurement system, and providing technical assistance for product specifications, supply planning and procuring health related commodities/services at best value to meet the needs of clients in a timely manner.
Warehousing and Distribution: Support human resource capacity development to ensure that the CMS is a fully operational, cost effective, standardized, and the warehousing and distribution system fully addresses client satisfaction.