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Status in eLMIS: In the eLMIS
Status in OpenLMIS: Not implemented
Priority: High
Requisition Splitting - Extension Scenario Analysis is the background of the OpenLMIS team's assessment of how to achieve this by extensible means.
Currently, the Zambia eLMIS team have built an enhancement which is able to split the products defined by a facility to different defined suppliers. The Ministry of Health relies on MSL for its supplies of products. However, some other Organisations can also supplement with the supplies and that case referred to as a supply partner. Currently, CHAZ (churches Association of Zambia) has a number of facilities which they supply certain products. In this case, the facilities do the normal requisition process except the system splits out the products so that the intended supply partners are able to view and supply the product. In that way the, two supply partners cannot supply the same product to the same facility. The supply partners will have to be defined in the system.
In Zambia, Chaz has been defined and apparently serves 59 facilities and 36 products under the ARV program. See picture below.
So when an R&R is sent from one of the defined facilities, the requisition goes through the normal process except it will be viewed by CHAZ if the products being requested are within the products that CHAZ supplies. If some products cannot be supplied by CHAZ, then part of the requisition goes to MSL for supply. In this case, CHAZ will only view what it can supply and MSL can only view what it can supply.
# | Title | User Story | Label | Importance | JIRA | Notes |
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1 | Configure Supply Partners | As administrator, I need to configure multiple supply partners so that requested products are supplied by one predefined partner.
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Edge case questions:
Notes from 8/30/18 meeting
Attendees: Chris Opit (Unlicensed), Chongsun Ahn (Unlicensed), Joanna Szymańska (Deactivated), Łukasz Lewczyński (Deactivated), Nikodem Graczewski (Unlicensed), Sam Im (Deactivated)
Splitting requisition workflow in eLMIS (screenshots below):
The requisition split happens when the requisition has been approved by the district. This is the workflow:
Per the screenshot from Ashraf the view shows approved quantity, requested quantity, packs to ship as they were entered, nothing is zeroed out.
Ashraf or Chris Opit (Unlicensed) can you provide screenshots that show each of the columns approved quantity, requested quantity, and packs to ship for a CHAZ requisition?(Is requested qty only hidden from CHAZ? Is there any trace back to what was originally requested?)
Discussed changes to the workflow based on this feature - OUT OF SCOPE for 3.5:
Step 6: CHAZ logs in when requisition is approved and has been split to see the packs to ship. They have ability to change packs to ship to match what they will actually fulfill. (This is a want vs need because we don't know if CHAZ would actually use this capability, but it would increase accuracy for OpenLMIS.) This feature is not included in 3.5 release. (Ashraf and Elias Muluneh)
Potential problems:
Potential development tasks/tickets: (Chongsun Ahn (Unlicensed) & Nikodem Graczewski (Unlicensed) this is not a complete list, so please add any other ideas)
Verify format for csv matches expected format (Joanna Szymańska (Deactivated) this may also be a testing scenario only)
Question | Answer |
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Why is there approved quantity for CHAZ requisitions? | CHAZ just looks at the packs to ship, they don't modify the requisitions. They have access/rights to edit approved quantities in their requisitions. |
Does CHAZ approve the requisitions in the eLMIS? | They don't, the requisition is converted to a CSV and dropped in the Dropbox. |
Is the process of converting requisition to a CSV automatic in eLMIS? | Yes, it is. |
Would it be useful if CHAZ could see the requisition screen and approve specific quantity? | Yes, the district supervisor might not know what is in the warehouses. Based on screenshots provided by Ashraf this can happen and does already in eLMIS. |
Is there a view for supervisor to display the combined requisition? | No, there isn't. The original requisition has requested quantities set to 0 for products supplied by partners and a comment is added to the line item to indicate that. |
Is there a scenario when CHAZ has no supply? | There might be, but CHAZ is responsible for making sure they can fulfill orders. |
Is the warehouse actually approving? Could they reject? | Possible, but rare, warehouse team can change the values in the WMS though (provide X instead of Y quantity). |
Should CHAZ be able to fulfill order through OpenLMIS? | Not the original goal, but would be really useful. |
If CHAZ could log in to the OpenLMIS, would they do it? | They actually do for eLMIS. They log in and can edit approved quantities. |
Other important notes: