ABSTRACT
Forecasting, procurement planning, and procurement are significant, closely related supply chain functions. Accurate forecasting of the contraceptives and other health supplies that customers are likely to consume is the only way to ensure that neither too many nor too few are ordered and moved through the supply chain. To prepare a mathematical commodity forecast, need information about supply chain customers from one or more of the some sources: logistics data, service statistics data, and demographic data. Family planning or health service delivery programme needs to do forecasting for its essential commodities, no matter how small the programme or how few data are available. Family planning organizations acquire contraceptives through purchase or donation. Effective procurement enables service providers to make contraceptives available based on the quality, timing, and quantity specifications in the procurement plan. Competitive procurement, as a purchasing method, can be easily translated into policies and procedures, and it is often used for the acquisition of contraceptives on international markets.
