CommCare Supply: Part of CommCare Suite

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CommCare Supply is an open-source product designed to strengthen logistics management through the use of mobile technology. Its purpose is to support health workers and other mobile agents who manage commodities in low-resource settings. It has been proven at scale, through real-world deployments, to provide reliable, real-time, and actionable information to improve the performance of new and existing supply chains. CommCare Supply is integrated seamlessly with CommCare, Dimagi’s suite of industry-leading tools for empowering the mobile workforce. If your questions are not answered on this page, you may find what you want with CommCare. 

What are the benefits of CommCare Supply?

• Streamline logistics systems with targeted, actionable information to supervisors and managers
• Improve quality of reliable, real-time stock information to decision-makers at all levels
• Facilitate detection, resolution, and prevention of stockouts
• Reduce lead times through improved supervision of requisition and delivery, and identify bottlenecks
• Assist with stock tracking and analysis to inform forecasting and resource allocation

CommCare Supply: SMS vs. Mobile App

• CommCare Supply began with providing SMS solutions, enabling any functional mobile phone to submit stock report and receive corresponding alerts and reports in structured SMS format. Learn more about our case studies. 
• CommCare Supply can also be used on a mobile application (as opposed to a structured SMS workflow). For an overview and features of the CommCare Supply mobile app, check out our video demos. 
• Not sure which fits your need better? This page explaining differences between SMS & Mobile Application might help you make a decision!
• More information about how to implement a CommCare Supply SMS solution can be found here.

CommCare Supply On the Web

• CommCare Supply on the web is designed for web users who supervise agents collecting and submitting stock data in the field. 

CommCare Supply On Mobile App

• CommCare Supply on a mobile app is designed for mobile agents who are assigned to collect and report logistics data of products in facilities. They are created by supervisors on CommCare Supply web.
• Once they log into the CommCare Supply mobile app with the credentials provided by supervisors, their associations with given products and given facilities are synced to their mobile app.
• Data cannot be edited by the agent once it gets submitted. The phone syncs with the server automatically when there is internet connectivity. 

System Requirements

CommCare Supply web: Google Chrome, Firefox, Opera (IE not recommended)

CommCare Supply mobile: Android 2.1+