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Displays the total consumption of product(s) selected in the selected period.
Use:
- District use and up (above facility)
- Biggest uses - quantification and forecasting
- If rationing commodities - see where most things are consumed
- Comparison of consumption with service statistics
- To track abnormal uses of consumption (esp. if looking at trends)
- This data is used for dashboards
- Consumption def. varies - commonly either "issues" - from the store to patient/ward/lab/ etc. OR "dispensed" if country or program actually tracks to the patient/client dispensing data; but should be limited to SDPs (ex. if a district or province warehouse does an R&R and then their "issues" are not counted as consumption)
- Consumption then converted into "packs"
- Adjusted consumption - based on # of days stocked out
The consumption report shows:
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