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Transforming Procurement and Logistics in South Africa

From January 2010 through January 2012, SCMS in South Africa implemented the $110 million program to support national scale-up of ART and transform logistics in South Africa.

 

This report provides the final documentation for SCMS’s contribution to the Bridging Assistance Program. It is designed to assist other organizations, governmental or nongovernmental, that take on a large-scale procurement and distribution program.

  • Chapter 2 provides background on the program approach.
  • Chapters 3 - 8 describe the supply chain that was developed and implemented for the program, organized by process, challenges, lessons learned and outcomes.
  • Chapter 9 describes the Logistics System Strengthening Program (LSSP) that was implemented with the provincial depots in support of the overall initiative.

  • Chapters 10-12 describe overall program strategies, including communications, business operations and transition. The final chapter summarizes the program’s financial results. Many of the chapters include annexes of project documents that may be useful examples for other programs
  • The report summarizes the program’s financial results, which is available on request


Table of Contents and Acronyms  Adobe Portable Document Format  (1329461) bytes.

Executive Overview  Adobe Portable Document Format  (3216139) bytes.
Summary overview of key project components

Chapter One: Executive Summary  Adobe Portable Document Format  (1158987) bytes.
Highlights from the full report

Chapter Two: Program Approach  Adobe Portable Document Format  (1683083) bytes.
Context and considerations in developing the program approach

Chapter Three. Forecast and Demand Planning  Adobe Portable Document Format  (1754240) bytes.
Determining quantities to order to meet the demand

Chapter Four. Procurement  Adobe Portable Document Format  (823099) bytes.
Conducting a competitive tender and placing vendor orders

Chapter Five. Inbound Process  Adobe Portable Document Format  (1836559) bytes.
Shipping products from source to the centralized warehouse

Chapter Six: Inventory Management  Adobe Portable Document Format  (852504) bytes.
Managing products in the warehouse, including sampling for quality assurance

Chapter Seven: Outbound Process  Adobe Portable Document Format  (7211139) bytes.
Distributing products from the warehouse to provincial medical depots and health facilities

Chapter Eight: Incident Management  Adobe Portable Document Format  (682449) bytes.
Strengthening capacity of the provincial depots to manage increased volumes

Chapter Nine: Logistics System Strengthening  Adobe Portable Document Format  (6411421) bytes.
Strengthening capacity of the provincial depots to develop guideline conformance and manage increased volumes

Chapter Ten: Communication Strategy  Adobe Portable Document Format  (3883684) bytes.
Communicating within the project and with external stakeholders

Chapter Eleven: Business Operations  Adobe Portable Document Format  (323016) bytes.
Providing lean support to the program’s business operations

Chapter Twelve: Transition  Adobe Portable Document Format  (613873) bytes.
Preparing for handover of the project to the government of South Africa

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