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- Product identification
- Has a definition of a Commodity/Product
- Differentiates between Commodity/Product and Items
- Has a definition of a Lot/Batch
- Defines Lot/Batch in terms of Items
- Items may have GTIN
- Items define which Commodity/Product systems they belong to
- Items may belong to many Commodity/Product systems
- Has a definition for Item serial #
- Orderable Commodities/Products define just enough attributes in addition to the Commodity classification that give them use in two parties carrying out a re-supply request and fulfillment cycle. This allows a store that needs more of a commodity, to order that commodity, and gives the fulfilling store choice in which items will be used to fulfill for that ordered commodity.
- Product Alignment
- Master data follows standard definitions (e.g. GS1 GDD)
- Classification of Item into Commodity/Product
- Fulfills For and Fulfilled By relationships
- Inventory
- Transactions / movements are part of a ledger (as credits / debits)
- Stock events/movements may be recorded
- By Location (Facility, Store room, Refrigerator, etc)
- By source & destination Location
- By Program - you know how many bandages you have accepted by the Malaria program as opposed to how many were accepted by the EPI program
- By Commodity
- By Item
- By Lot
- With Serial #
- By expiration date (without knowing Lot)
- By date the physical event occurred
- By date-time of entering record into system
- Define Stock Adjustment Reasons for an event occurring (e.g. stock was received, stock was lost due to cold chain failure, etc)
- Stock Adjustment Reasons may be grouped into larger semantics (e.g. these 3 debit reasons together define Open Vial Wastage, and these other two define Closed Vial Wastage).
- Stock on Hand may be reported:
- By Commodity / Product
- By Item
- By Lot
- In aggregate for Commodity with all Items
- As of a date
- As of a date as reported by the system on a historical date-time
- Location Alignment
- Locations are nest-able (a storeroom within a building of a hospital)
- Locations may designate an Organization responsible
- Locations may be a part of one or more administrative areas (supervision structure, supply line, health catchment, geopolitical, etc)
- Location also identifiable by GS1's GLN (e.g. through OID)
- Resupply
- Order / Purchase Order
- Invoice
- Shipping notice (e.g. ASN, GS1 Despatch Advice)
- Receiving notice (e.g. POD, Receive Advice)
- Shipment identifier (e.g. GS1 SSCC)
- Transport identifier (e.g. GS1 )