Shared Vision for OpenLMIS Software (Plenary)

Shared Vision for OpenLMIS Software (Plenary)

  • Description: What are the boundaries of OpenLMIS? What is the domain scope in which OpenLMIS will operate? What belongs in OpenLMIS and what doesn't?


Leads: Dykki, Kevin


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Rapporteur/Notetaker:Sandy Hawley

Notes from Session:

What IS part of OpenLMIS?

  • basic cold chain equipment support, but not beyond "It is working"

  • suggestions for best practice processes in supply chain reports (core)

  • costing data- cost of supplies by program

  • batch management

  • different ways to install- configurable vs. specific

  • stock management (district, region, int. warehouse)

  • open source

  • one (1) product or platform

  • a common roof for programs (essential meds and vaccines)

  • requisitions

  • source for analytics/data source- R&R

  • commodities transaction data

  • modular

  • facilities "light" or interface

  • dispensing "light" or interface

  • key processes supported offline: (intermittent access) * - determine which one (some need support and some don't)

  • reference mobile application

    • responsive: not pillar/core; but sufficient interface and APIs to allow for construction of apps that enable mobile access

    • trying to create a one size fits all isn't feasible (mobile use is different for each country/facility) 

  • upgrade path 

 

What it is NOT part of OpenLMIS (doesn't mean we won't interface with this, it's just not our focus/core, or another system that does it better)

  • medical records

  • ERP system (warehouse data)

  • procurement at national level (no budgeting and buying)

  • asset management

  • full stack analytics tool, full business intelligence tool

  • bar coding, but support call for separate modules

  • budgeting

  • warehouse management

  • EMR

  • distribution management/rout planning, transport

  • master product list

  • master data

  • CHW

  • M&E

  • disaster relief/response

  • disease or initiative specific

  • Full VAN tool

  • country-specific system

 

QUESTION ITEMS

  • beyond health

  • master product list 

  • mobile and offline are separate issues but

    • usable offline - many countries need offline capability, especially where mobile challenges exist (screen size for forms, data not feasible in some places)- interface issues may be country specific 

  • SaaS

  • annual forecasting

  • facility stock management, or clients without online capability - does the mobile/offline become part of OpenLMIS?

    • offline capability is a need (this is feedback we are hearing)

    • in current state- its not possible to make whole OpenLMIS offline-but for example, the requisition process could be made offline 

 

 

Artifacts:

Is the domain of OpenLMIS:

Is NOT the domain of OpenLMIS:

Questionable / Contested:

 

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