What is Default Monthly Consumption and why is this useful?
If you are only interested in knowing the absolute number of stock available at different locations, you do not need to use Monthly Consumption values. However, often times in order to answer the question of "when will we run out?" and "how much should we order?", you will need some sense of the rate of consumption of different products. For example, two clinics may both have 1,000 boxes of aspirin in stock, but the one that is consuming 300 boxes a day is in a much more urgent situation than the one consuming 100 boxes a day.
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3) Save and upload the location file. Go to Setup and under Manage Locations, select any reporting facility you registered. Scroll down and you will see the unchangeable default consumption value for each product.
Automatic Monthly Consumption
CommTrack can also automatically calculate consumption rates per product based on historical behaviour within a specified date range. CommTrack needs the following data to calculate the dynamic monthly consumption. These can be found in the 'Advanced Settings' under Setup.
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In this scenario a mobile agent has to report at least 3 stock on hand reports over at least 5 days before CommTrack can calculate a monthly consumption automatically.
You must always specific a Default Monthly Consumption
When 'use automatic consumption calculation' is not checked, CommTrack will use the default values provided.
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