Nouvelle PSP CI
Optimized medicine supply
in Ivory Coast.
Maximum quality assurance ✔ Highest protection against counterfeiting ✔ 100% traceability ✔
Our Client
Our customer, the Nouvelle PSP CI (hereinafter: NPSP), is situated in Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) with the strategic mandate of safe distribution of medicines in the national sovereign territory.
The Challenge
The future-proof fulfillment of this order requires an extensive expansion of the existing IT infrastructure of NPSP and a completely reorganized process landscape - with digital and automated sub-processes. In this respect, the project has "pioneer character" and is supported in further project steps by the Global Fund, which is dedicated to fighting AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
Project Challenges
- Extensive expansion of the existing IT infrastructure
- Reorganization of the process landscape
- Project has pioneer character
The Solution
With ICS Group, NPSP found the right partner for this complex supply chain project, having extensive experience in international digitalization projects in healthcare and pharmaceutical supply chain projects. The ICS solution will ensure the safe availability and quality of medicines in public health facilities as well as the seamless tracking of medicines along the entire supply chain - right up to the acceptance by the end customer.
Solution
The service of ICS is provided holistically (general contractor) and consists of:
- Consulting
- Process strategy
- Integration and rollout
Consulting
- Development of IT infrastructure
- Process organisation
- Barcode scanning and mobile devices
Process Strategy
- Container unloading
- Transport and storage processes
- Medicines delivery
Integration and Rollout
- Warehouse Management System
- Labelers and anti-counterfeiting labels
- Software for inventory
As of the end of 2022, the solution is in an advanced implementation phase. After a successful rollout and process operation, consequential effects in the entire region of the West African States (ECOWAS) for medicines distribution are possible in the long run, in order to ensure process reliability similar to European standards.