Business Case:

 

Track and Trace is a business process that enables various participants like manufacturers, suppliers, distribution centers, consumers, in a supply chain to follow items as they move from the source of production into consumers hand. A combination of hardware and software technologies, business processes and overt or covert item identifiers enables auditable record-keeping of the physical movement of the item.

 

In this engagement, EITI did partner with USAID and Ethiopia’s Food, Medicine and Health Care Administration and Control Authority of Ethiopia (FMHACA) to formulate a  technical architectural and implementation guideline for a national level traceability system to Track and Trace the movement of pharmaceutical commodities in In- Country, Ethiopia’s  supply chain.

Our Approach:

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The EITI Health IT Strategy Consultants assigned to the engagement did employ the following approaches in the formulation of Ethiopia’s FMHACA National Strategy for Pharmaceutical Track & Trace System Technical Architecture and Implementation Guidelines:

 

• GS1 global standards for supply chain management and product identification.

• Track and trace features that are most likely to make a deployment effective.

• Ability to impact and meet the goals of mitigating counterfeits and diversions, providing supply chain security, data transparency and ease of product recall.

Outcomes:

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The key outcomes will be a to curate a functional System Technical Architecture & Guidelines for Implementation of the Ethiopia Food, Medicine and Health Care Administration and Control Authority of Ethiopia (FMHACA) Pharmaceutical Track & Trace System with inclusion of:

 

• High level principles and concepts relating to Track and Trace.

• Guidance and technical approach to enable various capabilities for an effective and sustainable Track & Trace deployment.