A scalable and resilient web, mobile and IoT enabled supply chain system to ensure high availability at sustainable costs to the last-mile
Problem
Across
the developing world, access to essential medicines in frontier communities
is hindered by economic and logistical challenges. Poor transportation and
telecommunications infrastructure and a lack of visibility into supply chains
of essential medicines make health programs expensive and unreliable.
Logistimo is a resilient platform conceived to meet the challenges of those
environments.
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Solution
Logistimo's
immunisation SCM tool is designed to ensure that the correct vaccine reaches
the correct child, at the correct location, at the correct dosage and
potency. Logistimo pioneers scalable and resilient web, mobile, IoT and
AI-enabled supply chain systems to ensure high availability of health
commodities at sustainable costs to the last-mile. The amount of orchestration that goes
into executing this in the analog world is immense and affordable mobile and cloud
computing technology has made it possible to manage these processes in the
most challenging low-resource environments. We have a great opportunity to
accelerate the timeline by which we reach >95% vaccination coverage for
children worldwide in line with SDG goals. Our further vision for global
impact is to deploy our solution widely where it can have catalytic impacts
on social programs that aim to expand access to all public goods. From all
classes of health commodities, to nutrition, clean water and energy, we think
that humane technologies can nurture sustainable and equitable development.
Competitive Advantage
Traditional
interventions that aim to achieve real-time visibility of the supply chain
follow a top down approach and often rely on third parties to perform data
entry for the last-mile. The Logistimo mobile applications facilitate
bottom-up empowerment and gives voice to the last-mile users who are
otherwise reliant on supervisors and third parties to report on their behalf.
Availability of real-time data across the supply chain leads to greater
transparency and eventually greater accountability across the value chain.
Additionally, the mobile application is designed with a strong focus on user
centric design, a testament to the intuitiveness of the interface is that
even first time users of smart phones can be trained to become proficient
users of the application in less than a day. Data has shown that even 60 year
old users (assumed to be less comfortable with digital technology) are as
active as 18 year old users on the platform.
Planned Goals and Milestones
Logistimo
seeks to replicate its impacts in immunisation coverage in India across a
broader stretch of the world – moving from an 18 million birth cohort to a 54
million across different countries in less than 3 years, imparting
world-class vaccine supply chain performance to nations that adopt the
platform. Within India alone, upon full national rollout of the eVIN
(electronic vaccine intelligence network) program, our coverage will reach
nearly 28 million children annually. We place a high priority on impacting
countries that have been designated by GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance as most in
need of assistance, and many of these are in Africa, South and Southeast
Asia. Apart from the direct benefits
accrued to the additional tens of millions of babies covered under
efficiently managed and executed immunisation programs, the broader footprint
of impact is many times that when one considers the immediate family of
beneficiaries and their communities. Furthermore, our platform having been
conceived from the user-centric approach of a frontline health worker and not
just a program executive, is strongly allied with the aim to localise
accountability in health deployments. The technical assistance staff we
recruit in country are there to facilitate knowledge transfer to the point of
care, and foster greater in-country participation in the Logistimo open
source user community.