Supply Chain & Procurement
7 articles
How medical supply chains, cold-chain logistics, and procurement function in low-resource health systems.
Buffer Stock for Essential Medicines: The Formula Behind the Safety Margin
How low-resource health systems size the safety margin on essential medicines, and why the formula h...
Quantification: How Global Health Programs Forecast Medicine Needs Before They Run Out
Why quantification, the forecasting step behind PEPFAR and Global Fund procurement, still leaves ess...
Pooled Procurement: How Global Health Systems Buy Medicine Together
How aggregating demand across countries lets global health buyers negotiate lower prices — and what...
Why Medical Supply Chains Keep Breaking — and What Buyers Learned
Medical supply chains failed because they were optimised for cost on the assumption that disruption...
FDA-Approved Under-Counter Blood Bank Refrigerators: Clinical Specs
Maintaining the integrity and viability of blood products is paramount for patient safety across all...
Ultra-Low Temperature Freezers: Vetting -80°C Units for Biobanks
The Critical Role of -80°C Freezers in Biobanking: Ensuring Sample Integrity Maintaining the integri...
How to Vet a Medical Supplier for a Field Program
Counterfeit stock and broken lead times sink field programs. Here is the supplier-vetting checklist...