The role of Logistics Management Information System (LMIS) in the health commodity supply chain management in Bangladesh at lower health care level(community based clinic and upazilla hospital)

Abstract

Bangladesh is currently implementing its Seventh Five-Year Plan (7FYP) for the period 2016-2020. To ensure its progress, the Government of Bangladesh adopted a number of policies, acts, rules, etc. Recently, a number of acts have either been passed or amended to strengthen the capacity and quality of the health services of the country. In order to achieve these goals, there should be adequate supply of logistics which are needed for efficient and effective service delivery. There should also be proper management of logistics in order to achieve these goals. Logistics bridges the physical and temporal gaps in a global supply chain. Efficient logistics makes a global economy possible, lowering the cost of living for the people of the world. The major disadvantage of push-based model were unnecessary stocking goods, expired, breaking cool chain, wastage of product, increased dead stock. The major advantage of pull based model were less wastage, proper utilized of product, quality immunization, decreased the dead stock and fulfilled the requirement of community. Both methods have some challenges though cent percent of the respondent suggested about implementation of pull based model in community level. As a contribution to strengthening the supply chain management in developing countries, this thesis provides research that can be used to define informational needs in different supply chain contexts. These informational needs can be used as a guide for how to improve information systems for logistic management, to promote the role of these informational needs in the supply chain management.