The GS1 Standards Implementation Project developed strategic recommendations for implementing and supporting GS1 Standards across USAID’s global health supply chain. Primary objectives included ensuring that ARTMIS is designed properly to capture product information according to GS1 Standards, developing a strategy for implementing GS1 Standards with the USAID supplier base, and informing country-level logistics management information system (LMIS) tools on the USAID/GHSC-PSM GS1 implementation to help ensure data can continue down the chain to truly create end-to-end visibility.
Of the five reports prepared as part of this initiative, this document is Report 4, Guidance for USAID’s In-country LMIS Projects. Based on a functional and technical review of LMIS systems in Ethiopia and Tanzania, this report provides:
- Guidance for USAID’s country LMIS projects to follow to ensure country LMIS tools can exchange data with ARTMIS and other country and global supply systems.
- Guidance for how LMIS tools can leverage best practices, common derivations, and lessons learned associated with exchanging Global Trade Item Numbers (GTINs), Global Location Numbers (GLNs), product hierarchies, attributes, application identifiers, and serialization/traceability information.
