Supply Chain Management of Pharmaceuticals & Related Heath Commodities Logistics University of Benin -­‐ 28th May 2014

1.
Sustainable
Electronic
Logis2cs
Management
Informa2on
Systems
Omo
Oaiya
CTO,
WACREN
Supply
Chain
Management
of
Pharmaceu6cals
&
Related
Heath
Commodi6es
Logis6cs
-­‐
University
of
Benin
-­‐
28th
May
2014

2. Overview
• RENs
&
WACREN
• Electronic
LMIS
-­‐
Overview
• Open
Source
LMIS
–
A
global
approach
• Leveraging
Research
and
Educa2on
Networks
• Collabora2on
on
Capacity
Building
&
Moving
Forward

3. Research
and
Educa2on
Networks
1. An
NREN
is
responsible,
on
a
na2onal
basis,
for
the
provision
of
data
communica2ons
networks
and
services
to
the
research
and
educa2on
community
of
its
country.
The
NREN
network
typically
connects
other
networks
at
regional
or
metropolitan
level
2. NRENs
are
primarily
human
networks
and
their
accompanying
organiza2onal
structures
for
producing
and
sharing
knowledge
and
for
promo2ng
a
con2nuous
research
agenda.
• The
human
networks
are
the
users
and
beneficiaries
of
the
physical
network
……
they
have
to
be
drivers
too!

4. About
WACREN
• Registered
in
Ghana
in
2010
• 22
poten2al
member
NRENs
• Second
Board
and
1st
CEO
appointed
recently
• Opera2onal
agreement
with
Ubuntunet
Alliance
• Partner
in
AfricaConnect
–
Phase
2
around
the
corner.
• Partner
in
eI4Africa
project

5. Our
NRENs
8
Established
NRENs
• GARNET
-­‐
Ghana
• snRER
-­‐
Senegal
• MaliREN
-­‐
Mali
• RITER
-­‐
Cote
d’Ivoire
• NigerREN
-­‐
Niger
• GabonREN
-­‐
Gabon
• TogoREN-­‐
Togo
• NgREN-­‐
Nigeria
Ongoing
Ini2a2ves
in
Benin,
Cameroon,
Burkina
Faso,
Chad
and
Guinea

6. Electronic
LMIS
• LMIS
involves
the
processes
needed
to
produce
orders
for
products
from
higher
central
and
intermediate
stores
as
well
as
the
tracking
of
products
from
the
point
of
departure
at
the
central
store
to
the
service
delivery
point.
• Star2ng
point
is
vision,
strategy,
and
requirements
for
an
LMIS

7. eLMIS

8. OpenLMIS
• Global
Approach
to
help
countries
strengthen
their
logis2cs
systems
by
providing
a
global
commons
for
sharing
tools,
experience,
and
best
prac2ces
-­‐
hp://openlmis.org
• VillageReach,
JSI,
and
PATH
with
funding
from
The
Rockefeller
Founda2on
• Main
outcomes
– Common
requirements
for
LMIS
– Open
Source
Reference
implementa2on

9. Open
Source
• Generally
refers
to
to
something
that
can
be
modified
because
its
design
is
publicly
accessible.
• Open
source
sobware
is
sobware
whose
source
code
is
available
for
modifica2on
or
enhancement
by
anyone.
• Source
code
is
program
instruc2ons
in
their
original
form
-­‐
access
to
source
code
allows
a
programmer
to
improve
that
program
by
adding
features
to
it
or
fixing
parts
that
don't
always
work
correctly.

10. OpenLMIS
(2)
• Common
Requirements
for
Logis2cs
Management
Informa2on
– Collabora2ve
Requirements
Development
Methodology
(CRDM)
• develop
a
general
methodology
for
determining
and
documen2ng
health
informa2on
system
user
requirements
and
(
• apply
this
methodology
to
produce
requirements
in
supply
chain
as
one
of
the
core
func2onal
domains
of
a
na2onal
health
system.
– applying
CDRM
to
strengthen
logis2cs
management
of
systems
for
pharmaceu2cals,
vaccines,
and
medical
products
– Adapt
and
refine
the
common
requirements
into
a
version
that
meets
specific
local
needs,
including
the
alignment
of
local
stakeholders
to
a
shared
vision
and
strategy
as
well
as
requirements.
• Zambia
and
Tanzania
(with
USAID/JSI
support)
have
produce
localized
version
of
user
requirements
for
na2onal
LMIS
– with
a
methodology
and
a
set
of
common
requirements
were
able
to
move
rapidly
to
sourcing
a
solu2on
to
meet
these
requirements

11. Matrix
of
global
and
country-­‐specific
architecture
and
solu2ons.

12. OpenLMIS
Conclusions
• Users
and
stakeholders
in
LMIC
can
be
successfully
engaged
in
applying
appropriate
methodology
to
determine
requirements
for
a
health
informa2on
system
• The
requirements
can
be
used
to
plan,
secure
funding,
and
source
a
solu2on
that
meets
those
requirements.
• Requirements
related
to
supply
chains
are
more
alike
than
different
across
countries
• Common
LMIS
requirements
have
value
to
many
as
a
public
good.

13. Developing
Shared
Vision
&
Strategy
Na2onal
LMIS
requirements
and
reference
sobware
implementa2on
Common
Requirements
for
Logis2cs
Management
Informa2on
Systems
Apply
and
develop
localized
version
of
user
requirements
Development
environment
including
sobware
tools
for
prototyping

14. Stakeholders
• Ministry
of
Health
and
related
agencies
• Communi2es
of
Prac2ce
anchored
in
Research
and
Educa2on
–
REN
– Pharmacists!!
– System
Developers
• Private
sector
/
SCM
Industry
• Technical
Advisors
• Development
Partners
/
Donors

15. Opportunity
to
Innovate
• Work
with
the
research
networks
and
leverage
resources
and
services
–
Build
online
communi2es
of
prac2ce
and
capacity
for
development
projects.
–
Setup
up
virtual
sandbox
for
research
and
development
including
sobware
tools
for
prototyping
–
Experiment
with
open
healthcare
systems
and
develop
mobile
applica2ons
as
student
projects
in
a
tested
capacity
building
model.
– Use
network
to
support
development
of
eLMIS
requirements
and
a
Nigerian
OpenLMIS
implementa2on.

16. Example
of
the
Model
-­‐
ngMobicon
• Eko-­‐Konnect
project
supported
by
Ford
Founda2on
towards
Mobile
development
Innova2on
Centre
– Research
&
report
on
use
of
mobile
apps
in
Nigeria
– Capacity
building
on
Android
Mobile
development
for
Eko-­‐
Konnect
students
– Par2cipatory
Design
Sessions
with
CSO’s
&
NGO’s
– Provide
a
plajorm
to
connect
students
and
young
mobile
app
developers
and
entrepreneurs
– Develop
5
mobile
applica2ons
that
promote,
social
jus2ce,
governance
engagement,
youth
rights.
• Outcome
is
sustainable
framework
for
suppor2ng
grantees
technology
needs.

17.
Android
Workshop
For
Mobile
Apps

18. REN
References
• WACREN
–
West
and
Central
African
Research
and
Educa2on
Network
–
hp://wacren.net
• NgREN
-­‐
Nigerian
Research
and
Educa2on
Network
–
hp://www.ngren.edu.ng
• Eko-­‐Konnect
–
Eko-­‐Konnect
Research
and
Educa2on
Ini2a2ve
-­‐
hp://www.eko-­‐konnect.org.ng
• eI4Africa
-­‐

19. eLMIS
References
• Common
Requirements
for
Logis2cs
Management
Informa2on
Systems
-­‐
hp://www.path.org/publica2ons/files/
TS_lmis_crdm.pdf
• The
Case
for
Developing
and
Deploying
an
Open
Source
Electronic
Logis2cs
Management
Informa2on
System
-­‐
hp://openlmis.hingx.org/Share/Details/493
• OpenLMIS
source
code
-­‐
hps://github.com/OpenLMIS/open-­‐lmis

20. Thank
you
for
listening!
Any
Ques2ons?
Omo
Oaiya
omo@wacren.net