Sustainable Supply Chain Logistics Guide: Best Practices in Transport Mobile App

You should use the Logistics Handbook: Inventory Control Card mobile app for each product. The inventory control card may be a summary of many bin cards for a particular product. For example, one inventory control card could hold information about all the paracetamol in a storage facility. It should note the total stock on hand of paracetamol in the warehouse, as well as the total losses and adjustments, without regard to lot number or where the product is located in the warehouse. Canvas apps are great for collecting real-time information critical to your business or personal productivity.

An IRV lists the items and quantity issued to a facility. It also includes quantities received in case any items are lots or damaged en route. The Logistics Handbook: Issue and Receipt Voucher mobile app used in a push system; the issuing facility determines the quantity to be sent and issues the supplies to the receiving facility. When you use Canvas mobile apps, you’ll reduce your reliance on paper, and you’ll eliminate redundant data entry and excess process for your employees and customers.

The Logistics Handbook: Daily Usage Log mobile app is used to record the quantities of a product, usually related to the laboratory, that facility personnel use on a particular date; for example, the number of HIV tests used in the HIV counseling and testing department on a particular day, or the number of vacutainers used in the lab on particular day. These usage logs also work best when the products are labeled by brand, on the form. The Canvas web site is always free to use.

The Logistics Handbook: Monthly Report and Request for ARVs mobile app is a summary report that presents the data to the next higher level and requests new supplies. The advantage of this report is that the higher level can verify the need, and the lower level sends up only one form that includes both its reporting data and its order. A report and request form (or Report and Requisition) is sometimes combined with an Issue and Receipt Voucher and is useful for other steps in the transaction. If you want to continue using the mobile app at the end of 30 days, you can choose one of our service plans.

Managers can use the Logistics Handbook: Feedback Report mobile app to gauge how well the system is functioning. For example, a feedback report might list facilities that are stocked out or overstocked; percentages of those facilities reporting at each level; or quantities of losses and adjustments, by level. Feedback reports can also address a single facility or product. If you need one of our apps to do something different, you can change it yourself with your web browser.

Data for the supply planning step are different from the data for the forecasting step. However, you can collect data for both the forecasting and the supply planning steps at the same time—for example, during individual meetings or consultative workshops with stakeholders. The Logistics Handbook: Supply Planning Data Requirement mobile app describes the specific data required for the supply planning step. You don’t need expensive programmers. With Canvas you are empowered to modify or create as many mobile apps as you want.

The Logistics Handbook: Storage Guidelines mobile app describes the storage guidelines that you should follow, regardless of the size of the facility. However, you may need to adapt these rules to your facility. For example, it is unreasonable to expect a small health center to have more than a small closet or cupboard for storing medical supplies. Using pallets in such a small space would be inappropriate. Small shelves, that keep products away from exterior walls and off the floor, may be sufficient.

Generally, mechanically damaged items are removed from stocks; the remainder of the box, or carton, is distributed as usual. You should remove chemically damaged items from inventory, and remove all like items (i.e., from the same lot) from inventory; quarantine and destroy them using per local disposal procedures. Specifically, look for the common quality problems using the he Logistics Handbook: Common Product Quality Problems mobile app and take the recommended action. Canvas offers a tutorial that will walk you through publishing a sales order app from start to finish.