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[Lamin Jawara <lbjawara@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Johan,
This is great in tracking LMIS commodities using DHIS, Is it also possible to have an sms alert if you are out of stock using the tracker ?
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     On Friday, June 19, 2015 11:40 AM, Johan Ivar Sæbø <johansa@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
   

  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 
 
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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> 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 
 
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       Le Mercredi 17 juin 2015 8h26, Ouango william <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 
 
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       Le Mardi 16 juin 2015 18h13, Aymar Narodar SOME <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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