Through funding from USAID’s Office of Population and Reproductive Health, GHSC-PSM has produced two landmark documents focusing on private-sector concepts as contributions to the Africa Resource Center’s Out-Sourcing Toolkit, designed to support ministries of health to out-source selected elements of their public health supply chains.
- Implementing Activity-based Costing (ABC) and Activity-based Management (ABM) in Warehousing and Distribution.
- To determine the real costs of warehousing and distribution activities, country governments and donors are shifting to a traditionally private-sector approach called activity-based costing, or ABC. ABC provides tools to capture cost information daily, monthly, and annually, new management processes, and organizational learning about how these tools and processes help improve cost management.
- Readers can use this new guide to work toward a more efficient and well-performing supply chain by assessing supply chain costs against private-sector costs and inform decisions on outsourcing, including contract management and vendor accountability.
- The guide includes case studies, sample cost calculators, ABC management tools, sample reports, templates and much more to help supply chain managers evolve their operations for greater efficiency and accountability.
- Contracting for Transportation of Public Health Commodities to the Private Sector.
- In many countries, central medical stores, ministries of health and others responsible for public health supply chain management may choose to outsource transportation to private-sector service providers.
- This document serves as a guide for private-sector contracting, examines the reasons for doing so, describes different options and explains the potential benefits and challenges of each option. Readers will find it useful in making the right decisions, better understanding the contracting process and how strategic planning for contracting can help ensure satisfactory vendor performance and even save money.
- Examples from Angola, Cambodia, Ghana, Malawi, Mozambique and South Africa illustrate key points. Annexes include a sample scope of work, deliverables schedule, requests for proposals, key performance indicators and other tools.
