Outsourcing has historically been provided by public employees and has been done so with a largely consistent rationale: that applying market mechanisms and private sector expertise to the work of governments can increase efficiencies, ensure that more products reach the patients and ultimately improve the effectiveness of the entire health supply chain. However, for governments (ministries of health, central medical stores, vaccine stores and supply chain agencies) to outsource their supply chain services, they need to have the internal human resource capacity to effectively manage these outsourced activities.

The outsourcing toolkit comprises three resources that have been designed to complement one another and is intended to support governments and national supply chain organisations to successfully outsource from a “people” perspective.

Centring on the outsourcing roadmap, the toolkit allows users to assess the maturity of their supply chain and their current people practices, and defines the steps to be taken before outsourcing can be adopted. The roadmap builds on PtD’s maturity model for human resources in supple chain management, Kotter’s 8-step process for leading change, and is informed by interviews with health supply chain managers in Africa.

The human resources for supply chain management Theory of Change (HR4SCM ToC) provides a useful basis for strategic planning, by providing a foundation for developing strategies to manage the quantity, type, and capacity of human resources required to operate health supply chains. The HR4SCM TOC analyses the conditions needed to ensure that workers at every level are performing optimally, in order to fulfill all the necessary functions of an effective SC system.

The purpose of this package is to set standard policies and practices to ensure fairness and equity, attract and retain a qualified and committed supply chain workforce and to clearly show the rights and responsibilities of the health supply chain workforce This standard is meant to be used as either a guideline for health supply chain organisations that do not yet have a HR policy manual or that do and wish to update and ensure that it contains best practices. Therefore, this document shall be used as a reference tool when developing, revising or updating HR policy manuals.

On June 28th and 29th, 2011, 170 representatives - from 13 country delegations and more than 75 organizations - assembled at the World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva for the Global Positioning and Harmonization Conference of the People that Deliver Initiative (PtD).

In 2019 GHSC-PSM, in collaboration with PtD, SAPICS and USAID, published a SCM Professionalisation Framework white paper outlining how a SCM professionalisation framework could be used by: › Governments to define the professional standards of the profession › Employers to articulate SCM competency requirements and career pathways in their organisations › Learning institutions of to define clear learning and teaching courses › SCM employees to map out a professional career in SCM In 2020, the same consortium worked together to complete the necessary elements of the ‘SCM Professionalisation Framework’.

The Workforce optimization tool: an easy, powerful method to optimize your supply chain.

The presentation provides an overview of Health System and Supply Chain in Namibia, key findings of the human resources for supply chain management assessment and key HR related findings of a SWOT analysis of the central medical store.

La pandémie de COVID-19 exerce une pression croissante sur les chaînes d’approvisionnement de la santé. Prévenir, détecter les pénuries de produits de santé et y remédier constitue un défi de taille.

Gavi Alliance, alongside the People and Practices Priority Working Group (P&P PWG) of the Gavi Supply Chain Strategy, aims to explore the personnel profiles behind supply chain management (SCM) in the private and public sector.