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They have 6 national level warehouses and local warehouses in each state. Then products go to a disaster site.
Delhi (national level)→States (these are under control of state-level societies)-->districts→facilities.
Currently doing inventory mgmt with paper-based system, also no electronic warehouse system
Plan to modernize the warehouses and want an info system with real time stock situation, want to know minimum level stock updates;
- administration, product codes, etc can be handled by the national level
- staff here is not very tech saavy
- storekeepers dont know how to operate computers, low tech capacity
- 1st level want to do stock updates, 2nd then ask them to put it into OpenLMIS, then step 3 to have a WMS
Funds available: do not have funds to hire a vendor, no funding source. Propose to ICRC to support. Hosting will not be an issue, but need help with selection of 'a package'; want a technical requirement from OpenLMIS to host on AWS
Single time training at national HQ and then they can take the responsibility of cascading down
Implementation Options:
- implementing partners
- funding source–minimum funding requirement
Desired scope: Initially just stock mgmt and hosting help with AWS; they might be interested in becoming an implementing partner; they might want to take it up and
want to try to install themselves; configuration; just need global level support (perhaps a freelancer from one of our partners)?
Interested to build the capacity in India; want to showcase how this can be an open source solution for disaster mgmt organizations; other disaster solutions are not open source and very expensive; they want to create an example and showcase that this can be done locally
Advise from Wes: you will need project mgmt; will need to be some kind of contract/partner
Next steps:
How can we partner with Indian Red Cross society? Shikha is a one- man show–she would do the bulk of the work. Has LMIS experience from MoH
Ready to fund for 1-2 technical resources/consultancies; for 1-2 months; there might be some customizations required. They are looking for outsourced development/configurations