Its six interlinked modules combine to support nearly all aspects of product management including—

• Tender & Procurement Management
• Inventory Management
• Sales & Distribution Management
• Warehouse Management
• Vehicle & Equipment Maintenance
• Finance, Accounts Receivables & Payables

Based on industry standards and best practices, ORION@MSH incorporates tested procedures for ensuring effective management of pharmaceuticals and medical supplies, particularly as applicable to resource-limited settings.

It also incorporates the functionality of existing MSH pharmaceutical management software (e.g., INVEC-2, ECPRO-2, CLM), can be used with multiple currencies, and includes security and password functions to ensure the protection of data.

Tender & Procurement Management

Topics include the following—

• Tender Procurement
• For all types of catalogue items that are procured through tender for stocking & distribution
• Non Tender Procurement
• For all types of catalogue items that are procured for stocking & distribution
• Non Stock Procurement
• For all types of services, including air tickets and office supplies
• Special Orders
• All types of non-catalogue items that are procured based on special requests from customers
• Donor Stock Procurement–Tender
• All types of items that are procured for vertical programs/donor through tender
• Donor Stock Procurement–Non Tender
• All types of items that are procured for vertical programs/donor
• Consumables Procurement
• All types of consumables, including catalogs, gasoline, tires, packaging, pallets, advertisements, and marketing material
• Fixed Asset Procurement
• All fixed asset procurement for various departments within company
• Pooled Procurement
• Centralized procurement where a central procurement company handles procurement and a participating company gives its requirement for purchasing

Inventory Management

Topics include the following—

• Receiving & Returns
• Receiving of items based on order, costing of items received, inspection and quality control, rejection and return to supplier
• Inter Store Distribution
• Remote store requesting stock from central warehouse and transfer of stock from central warehouse to remote store
• Expired Stock Management
• Transfer of expired stock to separate area and disposing of expired stocks
• Stock Take (Physical Inventory)
• Perpetual and physical stock take, and adjustment to stock based on stock take
• Kit Assembly
• Assembling of kits and costing of kits assembled
• Kit Disassembly
• Disassembling of kits

Sales & Distribution Management

Topics include the following—

• Catalogue
• For all types of catalogue items
• Non Catalogue
• For all types of non catalogue items
• Donor Program
• For all types of donor stock distribution
• Kit Distribution
• For all types of kit distribution
• Free Issues
• For free issues
• Services
• For all types of services offered, including consultancy and warehouse space
• Complaint Registration
• For logging and tracking actions on complaints

Warehouse Management

Topics include the following—

• Receiving
• Palletization and put away
• Replenishment
• Replenishment of stocks from stocking location into picking location
• Picking
• Picking for dispatch
• Pallet Transfers
• Internal movement of pallets
• Stock Take (Physical Inventory)
• Perpetual and physical stock take, and adjustment to stock based on stock take

Vehicle & Equipment Maintenance

Topics include the following—

• Trips
• Define trip routes
• Schedule a trip, reserve a vehicle
• Captures actual details and analysis thereof
• Capture repair cost on the move
• Repair & Maintenance
• Make a maintenance plan and reserve vehicle and equipment for maintenance
• Capture actual details and cost

Finance, Accounts Receivables & Payables

Topics include the following—

• Finance
• Multi-currency
• Automatic foreign exchange gain or loss calculation and related financial entries
• Forex revaluation
• Design your own balance sheet and profit and loss statement
• Maintain multiple formats of balance sheet, profit and loss statement, and income and expense statement
• Account heads shifts without recoding
• Define and track budgets
• Petty cash management to track daily sundry expenses and reduce the number of vouchers
• Bounce check handling
• Payment approval and check printing
• Tightly integrated with all operations modules
• Analysis and activity code definition to reduce the size of Chart of Account
• Accounts Receivables
• Matching of open entries
• Provides outstanding statement of accounts
• Provides for aging of receivables
• Accounts Payables
• Matching of open entries
• Provides outstanding statement of accounts
• Provides for aging of payables
• Bills Registration
• Accrual of liabilities
• Supplier's bill registration
• Matching with accruals and automatic variance generation

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