Hi Johan,
This is great in tracking LMIS commodities using DHIS, Is it also possible to
have an sms alert if you are out of stock using the tracker ?
Regards, Lamin B. Jawara Ministry of Health & Social Welfare
Tel: +220 9907404 / 7229017
Email: [email protected]: http://lbjawara.wordpress.com
On Friday, June 19, 2015 11:40 AM, Johan Ivar Sæbø <[email protected]>
wrote:
Hi,
DHIS can support LMIS in a number of ways. My experience is that there are
few, if any, specialized LMIS software that fits all needs and circumstances,
and that DHIS can play a useful role here. Like William says, it is possible to
use the Tracker module to literally track commodities. This is sometimes needed
for the supply chain, to make sure the right commodities reach the right
place, and keep track of additional data related to each item (expiry date,
driver/vehicle etc). However, for most facilities, the main functionality of
LMIS is to keep a regular inventory, from which you can have either a pull
(facilities order needed commodities) or push (higher levels determine amount
to be distributed) system. For this, the regular, routine reporting of DHIS is
very suitable. I know it is used for both very simple monthly reporting of
stock-outs (a yes/no question), and a more comprehensive inventory list of
"start balance", "dispensed", "wasted", "requisition", etc. The benefit of
using DHIS for this is that is it is online and simple to use if users are
already familiar with it, and it does not need additional infrastructure. This
applies to both facility users and those in charge of setting up and
maintaining the system. At national level warehouses, the requirements are
typically much wider, such as related to finances, distribution management etc,
but the available software solutions here are both expensive and complex. It is
thus common to support an LMIS with both a "heavy" warehouse software and a
"light" inventory software. If DHIS is already established in a country, I
would recommend using this for the "light" facility reporting, from which the
national warehouse can get the routine requisitions and keep track of wastage
and stock-out rates.
Mind that there are many more arguments for and against, and many local
constellations of systems and organizations. But my short answer would be that
DHIS is very well suited for facility inventory reporting, from which both
requisition/ordering and management indicators can be derived. With some more
information on what is needed, I'm sure we will be able to give clearer advice
on how to set it up.
Regards,
Johan
On 17.06.2015 12:01, Ouango william wrote:
Hi Gerald, What I’m saying is that DHIS2 is an optimized a data reporting
tool , it can be used to track inventory of some drugs through its tracker
module, but it is not optimized if you want to manage all your drugs. You can
use it to track some drugs stocks but not a very large amount of products and
you can’t know your stock intantly, Regarding medication management (For
exemple these operation like selling directly products to persons for example,
making a stock transfer to another facility, making inventory and adjustment of
your inventory... ), it is difficult to do in my opinion. The alternative you
have, is just to use software optimized on drugs stock managements and then
make a bridge with DHIS2. In BURKINA FASO, we use a software named CHANNEL2 to
manage our drugs and DHIS2 for reporting,aggregating data, making chart or
using pivot module. Our team is working on a solution to brige easily the two
software.
William N. D. OUANGO Analyste Programmeur DSITS
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Le Mercredi 17 juin 2015 8h36, gerald thomas <[email protected]>
a écrit :
Dear all,
I am interested in the topic and I can't read or speak French. Please can
someone translate. Regards,
Gerald On 17 Jun 2015 08:34, "Ouango william" <[email protected]> wrote:
Bonjour Narodar, je vois que tu as des questions sur DHIS2, pour ce qui
concerne tes questions, saches que DHIS2 est d'abord un outil de rapportage des
données, il peut être utilisé pour le suivi des stocks de certains produits à
travers son module tracker, mais ce n'est pas optimisé. Tu peux l'utiliser pour
le suivi des produits traceurs par exemple mais pas d'une très grande quantité
de produits, Pour ce qui concerne la gestion des médicaments (achat vente au
client par exemple, transfert de stock, inventaire et ajustement de stock...),
il est difficile de le faire à mon avis. L'alternative que tu as, c'est tout
simplement l'utilisation de logiciels de gestions de stock des médicaments et
la mise en place d'un pont qui permette de les mettre sur DHIS2 (Exemple
gestion de stock = CHANNEL, Outil d'aide à la décision=DHIS2) et tu les relie
de sorte à ce que les données de CHANNEL alimentent directement la base de
données de DHIS2. Ainsi, tu verra la puissance de DHIS2.
William N. D. OUANGO Analyste Programmeur DSITS
(00226) 79 33 83 84 72 00 31 22 66 85 28 18
Le Mercredi 17 juin 2015 8h26, Ouango william <[email protected]> a
écrit :
Bonjour Narodar, je vois que tu as des questions sur DHIS2, pour ce qui
concerne tes questions, saches que DHIS2 est d'abord un outil de rapportage
des données, il peut être utilisé pour le suivi des stocks de certains produits
à travers son module tracker, mais ce n'est pas optimisé. Tu peux l'utiliser
pour le suivi des produits traceurs par exemple mais pas d'une très grande
quantité de produits, Pour ce qui concerne la gestion des médicaments, il est
difficile de le faire à mon avis. L'alternative que tu as, c'est tout
simplement l'utilisation de logiciels de gestions de stock des médicaments et
la mise en place d'un pont qui permette de les mettre sur DHIS2 (Exemple
gestion de stock = CHANNEL, Outil d'aide à la décision=DHIS2) et tu les relie
de sorte à ce que les données de CHANNEL alimentent directement la base de
données de DHIS2. Ainsi, tu verra la puissance de DHIS2.
William N. D. OUANGO Analyste Programmeur DSITS
(00226) 79 33 83 84 72 00 31 22 66 85 28 18
Le Mardi 16 juin 2015 18h13, Aymar Narodar SOME <[email protected]> a
écrit :
Hi all,
I've just want to know if somebody has an experience using DHIS2 as LMIS to
manage heath products/commodities in a repository? regards,
Aymar
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