People Centered Supply Chains
People become ill, have suboptimal health outcomes or die because health services and supply chains are not designed to be responsive to their needs, challenges, or desires. When services and supply chains are not optimized for performance or efficiency, or are not agile and resilient enough during times of crisis, communities experience poor quality, high prices, delays, or lack of access to products and services.
To meet the SDGs, future supply chains must be predictive rather than reactive and capable of responding to the needs of people, wherever they are. This intelligence must be driven by appropriate data, supported by agile processes, and executed by a professionalized workforce.
The Strategic Resource Management Tool (SMArT), is a very practical and easy-to-use tool that will accurately help us use the allocated resource using our Quantification data for decision-making. There is also limited resource allocation for HPTs in the County, and the decision on sharing this resource to the facility level needs to be anchored on documented, predictable consumption data to ensure equitable sharing and also maximize utilisation while enhancing transparency to the lowest level. The SRMT covers all these aspects while allowing room for adjustments as necessary.
Forecasting & Supply Planning (Quantification)
inSupply Health brings best-in-class practice to forecasting and supply planning (Quantification) of health commodities. We help organizations plan for and develop forecasts using robust methods and tools, and provide staff training. inSupply’s process factors in data limitations as well as potential risks and future scenarios. Our outputs lend themselves to routine supply planning, refreshing of data and assumptions, advocacy for funding or procurement needs and gaps, and the training ensures users are focused on actions to enable effective inventory management and consistent supplies of commodities.
Forecasting and Supply Planning Use case
Nigeria: DMPA-SC Quantification Report
Nandi County Reproductive Health Quantification Documentation for 2017-2020
Supply Chain System Assessment & Optimization
Supply Chain System Assessment & Optimization Use Cases
Supply Chain Considerations for New Product Introduction
Supply Chain Capacity Building
The main goal is to equip health workers with knowledge, skills, and resources related to the supply chain. Through the support of USAID’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA), JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc. in partnership with inSupply Health Ltd. have been facilitating physical training to build the capacity of organizations working in Humanitarian and Disaster Settings.
The program focused on improving pharmaceutical and medical commodity management by equipping staff from the BHA funded organizations with supply chain skills necessary to improve supply chain practices in their humanitarian crisis response efforts.
The annual training has had two series in Nairobi, Kenya and one series in Amman, Jordan reaching over 76 staff from more than 33 organizations across the globe. A total of 29, 25, and 22 participants in the respective years between 2021 and 2023
inSupply Health continues to leverage different platforms to promote supply chain best practices. This includes IAPHL. Promoting supply chain management and participating in the discussion with the community of logisticians. One such discussion held recently, focused on spotlight forecasting tools, including AI-powered innovations that are transforming how we plan and manage public health commodities. These kind of discussions provide opportunities for knowledge and experience sharing through:
- Panel discussion on challenges and pain points in supply chain practices
- Expert responses and insights
- Demo of innovations and supply chain intervention
- Q&A and live poll
Supply Chain Capacity Building for NTD
Logistics System Implementation & Design
Forecasting & Quantification Use Cases
Digitization of MDA Data collection tool & integration in DHIS-2
Track & Trace
Procurement
Pipeline Monitoring & Supply Chain Visibility
cStock
cStock is a supply chain strengthening approach that combines simple resupply procedures with mobile technology, user-centered dashboards, and Information Mobilized for Performance Analysis and Continuous Transformation (IMPACT) teams.
cStock connects community health volunteers (CHVs) to facilities and promotes demand-based resupply, ensuring greater product availability in communities. Using cStock’s real-time supply chain data, CHV supervisors, facility staff, and sub-county and county managers can better manage inventory and demand planning. Adapted in partnership with the Kenyan Ministry of Health’s Community Health Division Unit, cStock was built within DHIS2 and integrated with Kenya’s Health Information System to facilitate scale and sustainability.
The good things I have seen while dealing with cStock is that it gives
me an easy time when I receive the commodities….I don’t just walk anytime
into the facility. When I am in my house but I don’t have [to go] to the facility.
I simply request via the phone and I will be notified when stocks are
available to go and collect rather than walking physically to the facility to
inquire about the drugs. Sometimes, the CHA might have gone to a certain
meeting so this saves me time.
System Design & Implementation
inSupply Health combines JSI’s proven system design methodology with our design-thinking approach to co-create and deploy systems and tools adapted to context and users and that can be implemented with minimal training. inSupply has helped build digital workforce skills for more than 1,000 health care workers who use supply chain information systems in Kenya and Tanzania.
System Design & Implementation Use Cases
Making Data Useful: The VIMS Story in Tanzania
Maturity Assessment & Strategy
At inSupply Health, we make sure that we fully understanding a problem before proposing solutions. We assess systems using a variety of tools such as the Supply Chain Compass and ASCM’s Maturity Model tool, both of which identify weak links in the supply chain. We use design thinking to co-create affordable, feasible, and practical strategies for supply chain improvement, with a focus on data use and continuous quality improvement.
Maturity Assessment & Strategy Use Cases
Maturity Model Training Report
Maturity Model Training and assessment: Mombasa County