Emmanuel- Technical Officer- Pharmacy. Responsible for health commodity movements down to the field site; state
They are interested in a tool for FHI; need to make a case for it; they have other projects that might need it. For humanitarian projects, they are relying on Excel. There is another project in Yemen and other country. If this works here in Nigeria, they could adopt it.
Types of products; medicines, medical consumables; other medical supplies. There are a few cold chain items (non-vaccines). Vaccines are being handled in the public system
Regarding locations of where the data would come from: do the locations change? or are they pretty set.
Requirements that they wanted:
- Monitor basic warehouse inventory
- Track stock issued, received, transferred
- Monitor real time stock status/stock levels from other locations i.e. we should be able to see what each supported sites have at each point in time.
- Track/flag soon to expire/expired products (it is OK
- Generate consumption report for each items for ease of forecast
monitoring of the expiration dates is useful