Alerts & Notifications

Alerts & Notifications

Target release

3.3

Epic

https://openlmis.atlassian.net/browse/OLMIS-1293

Document status

In Dev

Document owner



Tech Lead



Goals

  • Add alerts and notifications needed for vaccines within Stock Management

  • Alerts aim to alert a user that action should be taken.

Background

Vaccines May 2017 Workshop Attendees: Ryan McWhorter (UNICEF), Dorthe Konradsen (UNICEF), Teresa Ha (UNICEF), Brandon Bowersox-Johnson (VillageReach), plus some attendees who joined on day 2 or 3. 

OpenLMIS version 3.1.0 previously delivered an initial beta of stock management. See Stock Management for the detailed list of features.

Assumptions

  • The Notification service in OpenLMIS would be leveraged for this. The workshop did not discuss specific kinds of notifications (email versus SMS versus WhatsApp etc).

User Stories

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Title

User Story

Importance

Notes

JIRA Tickets

#

Title

User Story

Importance

Notes

JIRA Tickets

1

Low stock notification

AN1. Low stock notification

MVP

On hold due dependency on minStock definition.

https://openlmis.atlassian.net/browse/OLMIS-2861

2

Stockout notification

AN2. Stockout notification

MVP



https://openlmis.atlassian.net/browse/OLMIS-2873

3

Near Expiry notification

Near Expiry notification

Perhaps by expiration date, to trigger the notification. This is most relevant at resupply nodes, not at service delivery points. At re-supply nodes there is a chance to do something about it and get your stock out to a facility who might use it. But at a service delivery point there is less they can do about it.

MVP



We are sorting the fulfillment suggestions by expiry date

4

Recall notification

Recall notification

As a National/Central ..., I want to trigger an alert by product and lot so that any facility with that lot is aware of a recall.

Next

Got 9 votes!



5

Ad-hoc notification

(draft text on wiki and photo)

Low





6

Recall and return notification

(draft text on wiki and photo)

Low





7

Notification of Vaccines Problems

(AN6)

At the workshop, we determined that all the parts of this were already covered elsewhere. Stock expired (covered elsewhere); VIMS 3 and 4 (covered); missing supplies (covered by low stock alert).

Low





8

Chart to act on low stock

An alert with a chart to take action on low stock

(we decided this is not needed—it is addressed elsewhere)

Not needed





Diagrams

none

Dependencies

Open Questions

Below is a list of questions to be addressed as a result of the vaccine workshop:



Question

Outcome



Question

Outcome

1

Notification service in OpenLMIS may some day offer more formats (see note in Assumptions above). What mode of notification would the next top priority?



2





3





Out of Scope

  • (see Next in User Stories above)

  • SMS reminders

  • In application reminders

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