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Nigeria has developed a unique LMIS over the years; they have a lot of extra functionalities to tackle local problems. They have functionalities that deal with product leakage (for high value products), product quality, theft, etc. From 2015-2016 developed functionalities (not the tool) and hosted them; in 2016 there was a struggle to choose the right tool and lots of controversy over which one to choose. All partners wanted to market their own. They went with Navision as it was promoted by Unicef. NPHCDA’s mandate was to scale up Navision for Malaria, TB, HIV/TB, Nuturition, etc. but as this happened they realized that the interface (had migrated?) ; the technical content was just basic- wasnt meeting program needs, and was very costly. frustrated. The problems they are seeign are not likely to be resolved so they are looking for replacement. Assessment done last year the LMIS showed that the current systam (Navision) can only take care of 30% of the user requirements and many programs rejected it because it doesn't meet their needs (they don't use it).
Re Essential medicines--states manage these. Dont expect that the tool would provide visibility there because that would add a huge layer of complexity; but if it can interoperate with states to get this info that would be great. This would be too complicated to get involved with since there are so many states. but they do want to extract some info about their consumption. Most of them are using MSupply and we want to be able to pick the data from those
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