Dear Colleagues, Thank you to those who filled in the 1st and 2nd survey. We have had over 110 responses so far. We still need your help with the last survey. As part of the GAVI supply chain strategy PtD has been leading the development of a ‘SCM Leadership Competency Framework’ as part of the...

This post follows another on in-country Vaccine Transport a week ago, inviting discussion of the post and suggesting we discuss a revision of vaccine transport temperatures around a single temperature requirement; +2C to +8C during 48 hours with excursions 100kgs) requires rolling and lifting trolle...

Dear Colleagues, Thank you to those who filled in the 1st survey. We have had 88 responses so far. As part of the GAVI supply chain strategy PtD has been leading the development of a ‘SCM Leadership Competency Framework’ as part of the GAVI People and Practice Working Group. Such a framework ...

WHO's “Guidelines on the international packing and shipping of vaccines” clearly defines the temperature conditions for vaccines in three groups of stability up to a maximum travel duration of 48 hours. Guidelines for in-country transport cannot yet be found in a single document but are scattered am...

Interesting article from Bloomberg. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-11-17/ebola-vaccine-challenge-motorbikes-and-kerosene-fridges.html This section on the supply chain challenges is particularly interesting: Muddy Roads “Even if we decide not to use the vaccine during this outbreak and ...

Dear Colleagues, As part of the GAVI supply chain strategy PtD has been leading the development of a ‘SCM Leadership Competency Framework’ as part of the GAVI People and Practice Working Group. Such a framework will be used to help develop SCM job descriptions for leaders, and guide the develop...

The 'Moving Warehouse' (MW) system of vaccine distribution issues vaccine as needed from a mobile stock to a series of stores situated on a pre-planned delivery circuit. MW has proved to be the best of the available choices in countries of three regions, by achieving the following comparative advant...

A new policy paper on the vaccine supply chain, "System Design: Repair or Replace," has recently been released. It's attached and can also be found here: http://villagereach.org/vrsite/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/villagereach-system-design_repair-or-replace.pdf. This paper considers the broader conce...

I want to bring your attention to a new supply chain management resource: the Promising Practices in Supply Chain Management series. The series was commissioned by the Supply and Awareness Technical Reference Team (TRT) of the United Nations Commission on Life-Saving Commodities for Women’s and Chil...

A recently concluded two-week discussion on the IAPHL Forum addressed the challenges or solutions for managing vehicles for distribution of health commodities in rural areas. In week one, moderator Matthew Hann from Riders for Health summarized the discussion: "almost everyone mentioned that...

Oxytocin is a lifesaving drug - it is one of the 13 commodities on the list of the United Nations Commission on Life-Saving Commodities for Women and Children. - See more at: http://everywomaneverychild.org/component/content/article/1-about/409-un-commission-sets-out-plan-to-make-life-saving-health...

Cross-posted from the IAPHL forum with thanks! The post summarizes the discussion over three weeks. Week 1: Introduction to Supply Chain Design ? Supply Chain Design is about achieving objectives (Reliability, Responsiveness, Agility, Cost, Assets) by configuring infrastructure and process...

Immunization supply chains are regularly reviewed and plans made to improve them. All of the GAVI eligible countries carry our regular and comprehensive EVM reviews which help ministries focus their attention on the parts that most need help. Supply chains for drugs are not so fortunate; assessm...

by Tina Lorenson, PATH, and Joanie Robertson, GAVI Alliance Newer vaccines often require more cold chain space and more reliable cooling equipment than traditional ones. For many national immunization programs, these requirements present a serious challenge. Aware of the problem, for the last fiv...

by Patrick Lydon, WHO, and Prashant Yadav, University of Michigan Project Optimize has recently published a document that examines the benefits, challenges, and rationale for integrating vaccine supply chains with the supply chains of other health commodities. It provides agencies, donors, decisi...

by Michel Zaffran, WHO In December 2007, a team of talented individuals from PATH and the World Health Organization (WHO) came together to form project Optimize, a five-year collaboration to identify ways in which supply chains can be optimized to meet the demands of an increasingly large and cos...

The USAID | DELIVER PROJECT has just published Alternative Public Health Supply Chains: Reconsidering the Role of the Central Medical Store (report) and Getting Products to People Without a Traditional Central Medical Store (policy brief). This report and policy brief identify a set of approaches th...

Cross-posted from http://deliver.jsi.com/ with thanks! Risk management for public health supply chains focuses on how to organize the logistics activities of the supply chain in order to ensure that commodities needed for health programs are continuously available, without disruption. The USAID |...

Thank you Dr Robert Steinglass for directing our attention here. This contribution has been cross-posted from the International Association of Public Health Logisticians (IAPHL) with thanks. Those of you interested in subscribing to the discussions on this forum, please click here: http://knowledge-...

Joanie Robertson Senior Manager, Vaccine Supply Chain, GAVI Alliance wants your views on vaccine investment strategies and the vaccine supply chain. The GAVI Alliance is currently developing two strategies, and your views are important for both. The Vaccine Investment Strategy and the Supply Chain...