Data Visibility: Monitoring Pharmaceutical and Medical Commodities in Humanitarian and Crisis Settings

Health supply chain managers are responsible for analyzing and monitoring every aspect of their supply chains to ensure the timely delivery of medicines to people in need. An important tool for this is a logistics management information system, which provides visibility to inform decisions and performance management in the supply chain cycle. This brief explores how humanitarian organizations can improve data visibility to make retrieving and analyzing data easier to understand the flow of commodities better.