Practical Pharmaceutical Supply Management: LMIC Focus

Pharmaceutical Supply Mastery: | From Procurement to Efficient Distribution

Created by: Ron Wehrens, M.Sc. Pharmacist MBA
Pharmaceutical Supply Management Specialist

What Will I Learn?

• Understand the pharmaceutical industry
• Pharmaceutical and healthcare needs in low and middle income countries
• Detailled insight in all steps of the supply cycle (e.g. Specification, Quantification, Procurement, Storage, Use)
• How to forecast/quantify medicines and health products
• Procurement
• Warehousing and distribution logistics
• Rational use of medicines

Requirements

• Although it will be helpful, you do not need to have a pharmaceutical or medical background to understand and benefit from this course. Whether your field of expertise is in (public) health, nursing, laboratory, logistics, finance or general management, you will see that the topics are presented in such a way that you will easily pick up the concepts and able to apply them in your own daily practice.

Target audience

• Anyone interested in improving access to medicines and health products in low and middle income countries