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)