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[Johan Ivar Sæbø <johansa@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

DHIS can support LMIS in a number of ways. My experience is that there 
are few, if any, specialized LMIS software that fits all needs and 
circumstances, and that DHIS can play a useful role here. Like William 
says, it is possible to use the Tracker module to literally track 
commodities. This is sometimes needed for the supply chain, to make sure 
the right commodities reach the right place, and keep track of 
additional data related to each item (expiry date, driver/vehicle etc). 
However, for most facilities, the main functionality of LMIS is to keep 
a regular inventory, from which you can have either a pull (facilities 
order needed commodities) or push (higher levels determine amount to be 
distributed) system. For this, the regular, routine reporting of DHIS is 
very suitable. I know it is used for both very simple monthly reporting 
of stock-outs (a yes/no question), and a more comprehensive inventory 
list of "start balance", "dispensed", "wasted", "requisition", etc. The 
benefit of using DHIS for this is that is it is online and simple to use 
if users are already familiar with it, and it does not need additional 
infrastructure. This applies to both facility users and those in charge 
of setting up and maintaining the system. At national level warehouses, 
the requirements are typically much wider, such as related to finances, 
distribution management etc, but the available software solutions here 
are both expensive and complex. It is thus common to support an LMIS 
with both a "heavy" warehouse software and a "light" inventory software. 
If DHIS is already established in a country, I would recommend using 
this for the "light" facility reporting, from which the national 
warehouse can get the routine requisitions and keep track of wastage and 
stock-out rates.

Mind that there are many more arguments for and against, and many local 
constellations of systems and organizations. But my short answer would 
be that DHIS is very well suited for facility inventory reporting, from 
which both requisition/ordering and management indicators can be 
derived. With some more information on what is needed, I'm sure we will 
be able to give clearer advice on how to set it up.

Regards,
Johan


On 17.06.2015 12:01, Ouango william wrote:
> Hi Gerald,
> What I’m saying is that DHIS2 is an optimized a data reporting tool , 
> it can be used to track inventory of some drugs through its tracker 
> module, but it is not optimized if you want to manage all your drugs. 
> You can use it to track some drugs stocks but not a very large amount 
> of products and you can’t know your stock intantly,
> Regarding medication management (For exemple these operation like 
> selling directly products to persons for example, making a stock 
> transfer to another facility, making inventory and adjustment of your 
> inventory... ), it is difficult to do in my opinion.
> The alternative you have, is just to use software optimized on drugs 
> stock managements and then make a bridge with DHIS2. In BURKINA FASO, 
> we use a software named CHANNEL2 to manage our drugs and DHIS2 for 
> reporting,aggregating data, making chart or using pivot module. Our 
> team is working on a solution to brige easily the two software.
>
>     William N. D. OUANGO
>     Analyste Programmeur
>               DSITS
>
>
>     (00226)     79 33 83 84
>                 72 00 31 22
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>
>
>
> Le Mercredi 17 juin 2015 8h36, gerald thomas <gerald17006@xxxxxxxxx> a 
> écrit :
>
>
> Dear all,
> I am interested in the topic and I can't read or speak French. Please 
> can someone translate.
> Regards,
> Gerald
> On 17 Jun 2015 08:34, "Ouango william" <williamouango@xxxxxxxx 
> <mailto:williamouango@xxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>     Bonjour Narodar,
>      je vois que tu as des questions sur DHIS2, pour ce qui concerne
>     tes questions, saches que DHIS2 est d'abord un outil de rapportage
>     des données, il peut être utilisé pour le suivi des stocks de
>     certains produits à travers son module tracker, mais ce n'est pas
>     optimisé. Tu peux l'utiliser pour le suivi des produits traceurs
>     par exemple mais pas d'une très grande quantité de produits,
>     Pour ce qui concerne la gestion des médicaments (achat vente au
>     client par exemple, transfert de stock, inventaire et ajustement
>     de stock...), il est difficile de le faire à mon avis.
>     L'alternative que tu as, c'est tout simplement l'utilisation de
>     logiciels de gestions de stock des médicaments et la mise en place
>     d'un pont qui permette de les mettre sur DHIS2 (Exemple gestion de
>     stock = CHANNEL, Outil d'aide à la décision=DHIS2) et tu les relie
>     de sorte à ce que les données de CHANNEL alimentent directement la
>     base de données de DHIS2. Ainsi, tu verra  la puissance de DHIS2.
>
>         William N. D. OUANGO
>         Analyste Programmeur
>           DSITS
>
>
>         (00226)     79 33 83 84
>                     72 00 31 22
>                     66 85 28 18
>
>
>
>
>     Le Mercredi 17 juin 2015 8h26, Ouango william
>     <williamouango@xxxxxxxx <mailto:williamouango@xxxxxxxx>> a écrit :
>
>
>     Bonjour Narodar,
>      je vois que tu as des questions sur DHIS2, pour ce qui concerne
>     tes questions, saches que DHIS2 est d'abord un outil de rapportage
>     des données, il peut être utilisé pour le suivi des stocks de
>     certains produits à travers son module tracker, mais ce n'est pas
>     optimisé. Tu peux l'utiliser pour le suivi des produits traceurs
>     par exemple mais pas d'une très grande quantité de produits,
>     Pour ce qui concerne la gestion des médicaments, il est difficile
>     de le faire à mon avis.
>     L'alternative que tu as, c'est tout simplement l'utilisation de
>     logiciels de gestions de stock des médicaments et la mise en place
>     d'un pont qui permette de les mettre sur DHIS2 (Exemple gestion de
>     stock = CHANNEL, Outil d'aide à la décision=DHIS2) et tu les relie
>     de sorte à ce que les données de CHANNEL alimentent directement la
>     base de données de DHIS2. Ainsi, tu verra  la puissance de DHIS2.
>
>         William N. D. OUANGO
>         Analyste Programmeur
>                   DSITS
>
>
>         (00226)     79 33 83 84
>             72 00 31 22
>             66 85 28 18
>
>
>
>
>     Le Mardi 16 juin 2015 18h13, Aymar Narodar SOME <narodar@xxxxxxxxx
>     <mailto:narodar@xxxxxxxxx>> a écrit :
>
>
>     Hi all,
>
>     I've just want to know if somebody has an experience using DHIS2
>     as LMIS to manage heath products/commodities in a repository?
>     regards,
>
>     /Aymar/
>
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