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Streamlining Public Health Requisitions with OpenLMIS

Posted on July 11, 2025

The Challenge: Managing Public Health Requisitions In many public health systems—especially in low- and middle-income countries—requisitions are a foundational process. Health facilities must regularly request the medical supplies, vaccines, and commodities they need from central warehouses or district stores. But in practice, requisition processes are often: Manual and paper-based, leading to delays and data entry […]

How OpenLMIS in Nigeria helped save 850,000+ vaccine doses from expiry

Posted on June 4, 2025

Nationwide digital vaccine logistics transformation with OpenLMIS in Nigeria For years, Nigeria’s immunisation supply chain relied on manual processes and fragmented data systems. With the growing demands of national immunisation programs and the urgency of efficient vaccine distribution, the limitations of paper-based tracking and error-prone reporting became increasingly apparent. In response, Nigeria launched a national […]

The impact of OpenLMIS on vaccine supply chains in Mozambique

Posted on April 4, 2025

In Mozambique, ensuring the consistent availability of vaccines across vast and remote regions has been a significant challenge. To address this, the country implemented OpenLMIS. Known locally as Sistema Electrónico de Logística de Vacinas (SELV), this system has revolutionized the nation’s vaccine supply chains. Addressing Mozambique’s vaccine supply chain challenges Prior to SELV’s implementation, Mozambique’s […]

Optimizing medication distribution in The Gambia with OpenLMIS

Posted on February 28, 2025

In 2022, OpenLMIS was implemented in The Gambia as a strategic move by the Ministry of Health to enhance the visibility of the pharmaceutical supply chain, optimizing medication distribution and increasing control over the flow of essential health supplies. The evolution of logistics management in The Gambia Historically, The Gambia’s health supply chain was mostly […]

Intellectual Property for Global Goods: An OpenLMIS Case Study

Posted on July 30, 2021

An important part of our new private sector partnership with Vitalliance is making sure our intellectual property (IP) parameters would work smoothly with our growing community and with the new partner’s proprietary software. We understood that choosing how to manage IP protects software investments, ensures contributors receive appropriate attribution and creates a clear basis for […]

Update: OpenLMIS COVID-19 Edition Now Supports Vaccine Tracking

Posted on April 1, 2021

(COVID vaccination session in Malawi, photo by: Home Line Media) Now more than ever it is important for national health systems who are planning and deploying vaccination campaigns to be able to keep track of their COVID-19 vaccines. COVID-19 vaccines are currently among the most sought after health commodities in the world, and with extremely […]

OpenLMIS Announces Partnership with Vitalliance for Open Source Sustainability

Posted on March 18, 2021

by Rebecca Alban, OpenLMIS Community Manager; originally posted on ICTWorks OpenLMIS is looking toward the future. After launching in 2012 in two countries, OpenLMIS has grown to serve over 11,000 health facilities across 9 African countries. Now our vision is only getting bigger; as we embark on a new partnership with Vitalliance. OpenLMIS was founded on […]

Challenging the Hidden Cost of Free -How one open source technology is preparing for the future

Posted on June 2, 2020

Posted by: Rebecca Alban, OpenLMIS Community Manager The sustainability of public goods has long been an issue — it shows up everywhere from reversing the impacts of climate change, to agricultural subsidies and even the U.S. postal service. In the global development space, there are dozens of examples of technologies that were created – and […]

Leveraging OpenLMIS in the COVID-19 Response

Posted on May 11, 2020

Data Visibility in the time of COVID-19 During this unprecedented time of COVID-19 the OpenLMIS core team is heavily focused on supporting countries to optimize OpenLMIS to support national and international COVID response efforts. Over the next 6-12 months visibility and accuracy of supply chain data will be more important than ever- specifically reporting consumption […]

New LMIS Selection Guidance features OpenLMIS

Posted on April 10, 2020

(content source: Global Fund website) We have exciting news to share! The Global Fund and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance have published new guidance to support countries with the planning the selection, acquisition and deployment of new logistics management information system (LMIS) software. We are delighted to report that this guidance identifies OpenLMIS as an off-the-shelf […]

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