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 ?
Regards, Lamin B. Jawara Ministry of Health & Social Welfare
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     On Friday, June 19, 2015 11:40 AM, Johan Ivar Sæbø <joha...@ifi.uio.no> 
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 <gerald17...@gmail.com> 
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" <williamoua...@yahoo.fr> 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 <williamoua...@yahoo.fr> 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 <naro...@gmail.com> 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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