Health Supply Chains for a Better World

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CONNEXI Supply Chain Platform

The international donor community has doubled down on the idea of the private sector as advisor, executor, innovator, and financier for governments, donors, and implementing partners to achieve sustainable health outcomes.

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Innovation

Improving Lives Worldwide

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VIDEO CREDIT: Simon Cole | GHSC-PSM PHOTO CREDIT: Esther Muyangana | GHSC-PSM

Simon Cole, distribution center logistics director with the USAID GHSC-PSM project in Zambia, explains how engagement of third-party logistics providers allowed for quick adaptation to an altered health supply chain and continued delivery of life-saving commodities even in the midst of a global pandemic.

Commodity Distribution in Zambia

Re-envisioning Health

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Zambia

The world’s youngest nation faces many supply chain challenges. A private-sector model implemented by one of our projects uses low-cost call centers to collect essential data on commodities by phone.

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South Sudan

An international container cargo ship transports important life saving commodities the world over.

Our global health supply chain utilizes 7,249 shipping lanes worldwide to serve more than 55 countries throughout Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean.

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Shipping Lanes

A family planning nurse counsels a patient about contraceptive methods at Nayamata Hospital in Kinazi, Rwanda. VIDEO CREDIT: Bobby Neptune | GHSC-PSM

In Rwanda, GHSC-PSM supply chain employees are a critical link in ensuring increased access to voluntary family planning. Their work is vital to safe motherhood, healthy families, and prosperous communities. USAID’s support to countries like Rwanda leads to better health outcomes for mothers and babies.

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Rwanda

COMS allowed the GHSC-PSM project to track the long-lasting insecticidal nets that these patients will receive at Bauchi LGA in Nigeria thanks to their netcards. PHOTO CREDIT: Mayowa Fadairo | GHSC-PSM

Innovative solutions like our Commodity Order Management System are letting us track the delivery of health commodities in Nigeria down to the last mile in real time.

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Nigeria

In 2019, we conducted emergency supply chain preparedness workshops with our partners to support 11 countries across Latin America and the Caribbean to respond to the Zika pandemic. The workshops allowed participating governments to develop protocols, create formal emergency response teams, and more.

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Latin America and the Carribbean

Suppliers located in places such as India and China provide the GHSC-PSM project with lifesaving commodities. PHOTO CREDIT: Andi Gultom | Chemonics

We work with with more than 360 suppliers in countries such as India and China to procure lifesaving HIV/AIDS, malaria, family planning, and maternal and child health commodities.

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India

Evens Civil, GHSC-PSM data manager, teaches health workers how to use the Smartphone for Reporting app for improved supply planning. PHOTO CREDIT: GHSC-PSM

Monitoring consumption and restocking health commodities is challenging with limited equipment and technology. “Smartphones for Reporting,” puts smartphones into the hands of health workers at service delivery sites to quickly and accurately report consumption data.

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Haiti

A One Health activity emergency training drill takes place in Tanzania. PHOTO CREDIT: Light in Captivity | Chemonics

The global community — including governments, donors, NGOs, and the private sector — must focus on three critical areas to deal with the impacts of COVID-19 and better prepare for future global health threats: health workforce expansion, supply chain preparedness, and private sector engagement.

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Washington, DC (USA)

GHSC-PSM’s forest ranger long-lasting insecticidal net distribution campaign in the Rattanakroka Forest Protected Area of Cambodia. PHOTO CREDIT: Chris Norman | Chemonics

We work to eliminate malaria in Cambodia and around the world.

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Cambodia

Health commodities are transported by motorized boat to the Sô-Ava municipal health center in Benin. PHOTO CREDIT: GHSC-TA Francophone Task Order

In Benin, we're creating a health supply chain support system and career opportunities for a new generation of supply chain professionals.

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Benin

Essential medicines are stored in a warehouse positioned closer to their end destination. PHOTO CREDIT: Lan Andrian | GHSC-PSM

We operate three regional distribution centers — state-of-the-art warehousing facilities — in Belgium, Dubai, and South Africa to store and distribute the most frequently requested essential medicines and other health products. These help us position commodities closer to their end destinations so that we can respond quickly to countries’ needs and urgent requests.

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Belgium

Workers transport malaria commodities on behalf of USAID and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. PHOTO CREDIT: GHSC-PSM

Even amid the COVID-19 pandemic, in Angola we found a way to strengthen health supply chains by introducing a new contract mechanism that enhanced competitive pricing for lifesaving malaria commodities.

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Angola

Applying best practices for technology usage can be complicated in insecure operating environments with limited connectivity. In Afghanistan, we applied principles for digital development to a new management information system enabling staff to better track and manage project data.

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Afghanistan

Delivering Differently

Global Health Supply Chain presence

We currently have health and supply chain programming in more than 50 countries around the world. Read select highlights by rolling over points on the map and clicking for more information.

Transforming Health Supply Chains from End-to-End

Our comprehensive supply chain services harness an established global supplier and freight forwarding network to deliver health commodities worldwide while also providing our clients with real-time data visibility into the status of their orders and investments. Click on the services below for more.

Waste Management

Pharmaceutical Management

Laboratory Systems

Human Resources

Inventory Management

Transportation and Distribution

Freight and Logistics

Commodity Procurement

Forecasting and Planning

Data Visibility

We adhere to globally recognized health and safety measures and work with our country partners to implement best practices and environmental safeguards to avoid indirect or direct impacts of poorly managed health care waste.

Waste Management

Our supply chain management information system automates every step along the supply chain — from demand planning and sourcing to order management, logistics and warehouse management, and supply chain optimization to ensure a high level of visible, available, quality data to drive decision-making.

Pharmaceutical Management

Using open-source, data-driven optimization tools, such as Laboratory Efficiency and Quality Improvement Planning and ForLab, we improve local laboratory networks and advance high-quality service delivery in all countries in which we work.

Laboratory Services

We provide technical support to continuously improve the systems, processes, and factors affecting an organization’s ability to plan for, manage, and support skilled cadres of supply chain professionals. For us, the development of human resources is an investment in stronger, more sustainable supply chains.

Human Resources

We utilize data-driven inventory strategies for commodities balance costs (of inventory, operating, transportation, and capital deployment) and services (including lead time, stock outs, and on-time deliveries) to improve in-country warehousing and inventory methods.

Inventory Management

We facilitate the distribution of health commodities and work with governments and private sector partners to help them outsource these services by supporting market assessments of third-party logistics services, managing vendor performance, monitoring costs, and offering service benchmarking.

Tranportation and Distribution

As a fourth-party logistics provider, we utilize our extensive network of logistics partners to optimize delivery times, minimize disruptions, and ensure that life-saving commodities reach the customers who need them. Using integrated logistics strategies, we adapt proven commercial methods and tools to optimize supply chain performance.

Freight and Logistics

We apply proven commercial methods for procurement and utilize data-driven tools to build country-level capacity to improve operations along local and global supply chains. We liaise with key vendors and suppliers worldwide to ensure a steady, reliable supply of commodities at competitive prices.

Commodity Procurement

With advanced quantification methods and tools based on predictive analytics, we improve supply forecasts, communicate demand risks, and provide suppliers and managers with accurate information to plan their procurements and deliveries.

Forecasting and Planning

Our supply chain management information system automates every step along the supply chain — from demand planning and sourcing to order management, logistics and warehouse management, and supply chain optimization — to ensure a high level of visible, available, quality data to drive decision-making.

Data Visibility

Health Systems Strengthening Director, USAID GHSC–PSM project

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[We must] elevate the importance of those who are making pharma flow in-country. They have one of the most important jobs: protecting the lives of their fellow compatriots.

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Demand Planning Specialist, GHSC–TA, Francophone Task Order

Mame Kène Sylla

In Senegal, daily monitoring of each order requires constant innovation to ensure an uninterrupted supply of quality medicines and health products.

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Liberia Country Director, USAID GHSC–PSM project

Dr. Innocent Ndubuisi Ibegbunam

GHSC-PSM's success in supporting Liberia's Ministry of Health improve supply chain data visibility is remarkable. Innovation and hands- on support have significantly increased it.

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Angola Country Director, USAID GHSC-PSM project

Ladi A. Stephen

In Angola, at the strike of the pandemic, the government [identified] everyone’s strengths, expertise, and available structures. GHSC-PSM brought the supply chain expertise.

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Malawi Country Director, USAID GHSC-PSM project

Daniel Taddesse

Strategic planning, effective coordination, and close collaboration help avoid duplication, minimize gaps, and maximize efficiency.

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Malaria Task Order Director, USAID GHSC-PSM project

GRACE ADEYA

We were able to convene as key global partners and...prioritize deliveries to the countries with the biggest needs—the countries with the most risk of stockout.

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Sharing Our Expertise

With their global experience, insight, and knowledge, our technical experts are ready to tackle the world’s health supply chain challenges. See more specialists here.

Sustainable

Building resilience through locally led solutions, with patients at the center.

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Reliable

Leveraging people, products, and processes to ensure strong, healthy supply chains.

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Innovative

Supporting new ideas, technologies, and processes to expand the reach of goods and services.

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Health Supply Chains for a Better World

We build innovative, reliable, and sustainable health supply chains that extend to the furthest corners of the globe to improve lives worldwide.

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Infections treated by delivered antimalarials

387.5 M

Couple-years of protection delivered

90.1 M

Patient-years of HIV treatment delivered

15.6 M

On-time delivery worldwide

89%

Health commodities delivered

$3.6 B

Health and supply chain professionals on our team

2,000

This data was collected in quarter 4, fiscal year 2021.

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Measuring Our Impact