Supply Chain Management
Futures Group has supported supply chain management in over 35 countries through such projects as the 15-year global USAID-funded SOMARC Project and bilateral programs with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, DFID, KfW, USAID, and World Bank.
Projects have included direct procurement, shipping, distribution, management information systems, monitoring and evaluation, and training of service providers for local government health, private, and nongovernmental organizations. Futures Group assures robust decisionmaking through market segmentation, willingness-to-pay, production and distribution capacity, and legal, regulatory and policy analyses, as well as consumer group profiles and partner mapping.
Key Results
Under the COMPRI-A Project in Afghanistan, Futures Group established schedules for donor-funded and commercial procurement that includes packaging and point of sale materials. Commercial procurement is both domestic and international to ensure a continuous supply of product and communications material in the market. We also developed and implemented a national supply chain strategy using several private traditional and nontraditional distributors, and non-governmental organizations. This effort helped to ensure wide availability of products in all provinces, reaching hard-to-reach areas and vulnerable groups.
Under the SOMARC project, Futures Group was active in providing supply chain management services in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.
For a DFID-funded insecticide-treated nets project in Nigeria, we managed supply chain components such as building and supporting procurement; shipping; local manufacture and distribution of nets and insecticide; and related monitoring, tracking, and information systems.
In Madagascar, Futures Group provided training and technical assistance to government and private distribution operatives in long-range reproductive health supply forecasting and budgeting for commodity procurement, transport, and warehouse and logistics systems planning and management.
In The Gambia, Futures Group provided full supply chain support for a World Bank-funded national family planning program. We supported the selection process for a nationwide supplier, and the creation of a management information system to track commodity movement, commodity inventory, and revenues earned. We also developed a sub-distribution strategy with local non-governmental organizations to ensure a consistent supply of products.
Under the SOMARC project, Futures Group was active in providing supply chain management services in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.
For a DFID-funded insecticide-treated nets project in Nigeria, we managed supply chain components such as building and supporting procurement; shipping; local manufacture and distribution of nets and insecticide; and related monitoring, tracking, and information systems.
In Madagascar, Futures Group provided training and technical assistance to government and private distribution operatives in long-range reproductive health supply forecasting and budgeting for commodity procurement, transport, and warehouse and logistics systems planning and management.
In The Gambia, Futures Group provided full supply chain support for a World Bank-funded national family planning program. We supported the selection process for a nationwide supplier, and the creation of a management information system to track commodity movement, commodity inventory, and revenues earned. We also developed a sub-distribution strategy with local non-governmental organizations to ensure a consistent supply of products.