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Cape Town Area, South Africa

In 2022 we have supported an international agency with a strategic plan for revitalizing the community level health supply chain to improve efficient delivery of health commodities and essential medicines to Primary Health care in Malawi.TDG Advisors has consulted to Public sector Medical aid, Provincial Medical Supply Depots, International agencies on Public health Supply Chain, Warehousing and Logistics. Assignments have included collaboration with NGO's, Private sector Pharmaceutical companies and medical commodity suppliers.Our team has working experience in multiple countries including, Angola, eSwatini, Haiti, Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, Sierra Leone, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

Burundi, South Africa

Evaluation of the distribution of pharmaceutical products - BurundiClient project March 2023 – Feb 2024. Consortium of IQVIA / Caritas / TDG Advisors awarded by The Global Fund Project.Evaluation of the distribution of pharmaceutical products used to fight against HIV, tuberculosis, malaria, and COVID-19, as well as other essential supplies related to these 4 diseases in Burundi.Support the Ministry of Health in Burundi with a diagnostic review of the warehousing, supply chain systems and distribution system(s) for, which include the following activities:• Conduct a situational analysis of the current distribution network, system design, operational processes, and performance.• Identify the challenges and constraints that need to be addressed, and• Make recommendations for improving the distribution system and optimizing the delivery of health products up to the last mile.TDG advisors provided technical Supply Chain analysis capability to the consortium which included:• Converting supply chain data into information using relationship databases.• Using software with descriptive text analysis to identify items from multiple data sources.• Applying master data list of over 300 items of Health Commodities and Essential medicines. • Converting quantity into volume in meters cubed for storage and distribution.• Converting storage into 3D models for analysis of storage capacity.• Application of ArcGIS mapping for Visualizing, Road networks, Health Facility locations, Health districts, Population data in Burundi.• Combining supply chain data with maps to create visual outputs in Dashboard Software (Power BI etc), 3D models, and maps.

Port-Au-Prince, Haiti

The warehouse management main functions included:• Oversee and coordinate all routine warehouse activities, including receiving, storage put away, picking & packing and dispatch of all health commodities.• Establish and oversee the staff management methodology for the warehouse general manager.• Review, monitor, adjust, and enforce the inventory management policies and standard operating procedures to ensure inventory accuracy in the warehouse management system (WMS) and allow timely communication of stock status reports to key stakeholders. • Stock cycle counting was reinstated, and the stock accuracy Key Performance Indicator was measured monthly against the target of 97.5% stock accuracy. • Ensure proper coordination with the Operations department, to have maintenance plans with service providers for all warehouse related infrastructure equipment and material handling equipment (MHE).Due to the transition to a new Warehouse Management System (WMS), I managed the system implementation while delegating many of the daily warehouse operational functions to Warehouse general manager. Managed the Core WMS implementation team for customizing the new WMS system to meet the Haiti Warehouse and distribution user requirements which included:• Developing a WMS transition project plan on Smart Sheets. • Set-up and lead core working group to implement the new WMS system, which included the WMS specialist, the Warehouse general manager, IT Officer, and representatives of the new WMS service prover.• Reviewing and cleaning all the legacy data from the old WMS to reduce the number of SKU’s from over 2,500 legacy stock items to less than 700 SKU items actively kept in stock.• Reviewing and cleaning up the health facility master data to create the client data in the new WMS system (555 Health Facility addresses).

Luanda, Angola

Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa

Global Health Supply Chain - Technical Assistance (GHSC-TA) resources re-allocated by USAID to support National Department of Health (NDoH) respond to COVID-19 Pandemic.I was allocated to a national team which included working with NDoH, Provincial Departments of Health, Business for South Africa, Department of Trade & Industry, National Treasury, other donors and Agencies such as CHI in providing the following assistance.1) Demand forecasting and planning of PPE for all Health Care workers for South African Public Health sector.2) Weekly National Provincial PPE Coordinator team meeting to assist provinces with PPE supply chain issues.3) Proposed a National central strategic Procurement process to NDoH, which was rejected due to National Treasury issuing emergency procurement regulations for a decentralised procurement process in May 2020.4) Proposed Strategic National PPE store with contracted Third Party Logistics (3PL), which was accepted and implemented.5) Measure and Evaluation (M&E) of the effective use, and stock levels of PPE at a Health facility level (Hospitals, Community Health Centers, and Clinics). The existing system used for M&E of essential medicines in South Africa, was modified to include PPE and implemented within weeks of the expanded mandate being approved.Original assignment before Covid-19 re-assignment in April 2020:Appointed as Technical adviser to implement the logistics for the distribution of USAID funded Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision (VMMC) surgical kits, and HIV self test kits to USAID supported NGO's in South Africa.Functions include:- Forecasting of VMMC demand.- Setting up a Track & trace system- Coordinate between all the NGO implementation partners in South Africa.- Work with contracted 3PL company (DSV) to manage central 3PL stock and monthly distribution.- Develop Power BI dashboard to increase supply chain visibility of distributed VMMC kits.

Swaziland

Client: Ministry of Health (MOH) eSwatini (Swaziland) Tasked with training core members of the technical working group (TWG), Ministry of Health (MOH) eSwatini (Swaziland) and project staff on the use of Quantimed and PipeLine software systems, in addition to supporting the formal quantification exercise for HIV commodities including ART medicine, TB medicine, Reproductive Health commodities, Malaria, Non-communicable diseases (NCDs). This included forecast methodology, data validation and developing the next two year forecast data to develop the budget for eSwatnin Ministry of Health.

Zimbabwe

Short Term Technical assistance (STTA) for Warehouse Specialist – Zimbabwe Inventory optimization study.Inventory Optimization Study is to evaluate warehouse needs and network design. The study was completed at the National Pharmaceutical Company of Zimbabwe (NatPharm) Harare main Store, with recommendations made to reduce warehouse storage cost and improve supply chain operational efficiency and robustness. This included a “Quick-win” project plan to improve warehouse utilization and increase rate of deliveries to Health facilities.

Pretoria Area, South Africa

Short term assignment to assist USAID transition the Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision (VMMC) Commodities supply chain from Right to Care to the new awarded contractor University Research Co (URC) in South Africa.

Centurion, Gauteng

Manage Logistics of Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision (VMMC) Commodities to USAID implementation partners in South Africa.

Pretoria Area, South Africa

Manage Logistics of Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision (VMMC) Commodities to USAID implementation partners in South Africa; supply of ARV’s to the POPART Clinical trial in the Western Cape; and 3rd Line ARV’s to NGO’s in Gauteng.Forecasting of large seasonal demand for Implementation Partners (RTC, Chaps & MatCH); - Calculation of Economic Order Quantity for stock replenishment to delivery sites; - Finalizing monthly delivery schedule and raise Purchase request; - Assist USAID and SCMS PMO with updating VMMC commodity budgets; - Audit Vendor managed stock with the VMMC supplier. Vendor Stock for SCMS supply to 14 countries in Africa; - Expedite VMMC Emergency orders during peak demand months; - Ad-hoc project assignments, Western Cape Department of Health “Eden District Facility Assessment report”, Spend analysis for UNFPA report for Reproductive Health commodities in Eastern Cape & KZN.

Gauteng

SCMS appointed to evaluate the Medical Supply Depot (MSD) Gauteng Department of Health for opportunities to improve Logistics, warehousing and Procurement. Phase 1: Implement findings and recommendation of the SCMS Survey at provincial Medical Supply Depot (MSD). Teams of Purpose (Top) methodology used as a change management approach for implementation. Project target to save the Gauteng Department of Health R100 Million. I lead the Procurement Stream Improvement team: Identified large off contract spend resulting in Pharmaceuticals being procured at a premium by the GDoH. Mapped business processes and identified issues with regard to Policy and Procedure misalignment. SCMS team built a database of all National contracted Pharmaceutical items. SCMS used an exception report that identified all Purchase Orders that were being purchased from the incorrect supplier at inflated price, stopped transaction and corrected Purchase Order.RESULT: Saving of R170 Million per annum through elimination of non-compliant purchase orders. Phase 2: The MSD procurement process analyzed using a brown paper exercise technique. Identified reason for slow service delivery to Hospitals/facilities was large amount of Non-Pharmaceutical consumable items not on contract. Proposed to the Head of Department (HoD) of Health Gauteng to urgently issue an interim contract to place Non-Pharmaceutical consumable products onto provincial contract. Set-up a procurement team of procurement specialists. The team was tasked with issuing a tender to the market for 1300 Non-Pharmaceutical products. Issued the RFQ, evaluated response, negotiated and successfully facilitated the recommendations of 879 items through the government Local Acquisition Committee (LAC), and awarded in 45 days.RESULT: The average savings achieved was 48% reduction in price per unit. Annualized savings of R160 million. Lead time reduction on all awarded items negotiated to 5 days from standard 30 days.

Client: Eskom Engineering

Assisted M-tek with the Back to Basics Business Process modelling using Aris for Eskom Engineering - Plan Technical Effort business Process

Client: Denel Land Systems

Implemented Supply chain optimisation at Denel Land Systems.Reduction of operating expenses. Categorisation of small and medium calibre weapon components, and development of category procurement strategies.

Strategic Sourcing and cost reduction consultants. Welman consulting specializes in, Spend Analysis, Strategic Sourcing, Supplier development, Production & operations optimization

Assigned to an International Telecoms Company for the evaluation of alternative energy for Cellphone tower applications. Evaluation of Tender responses and technology evaluation to determine the most suitable systems for different geographic regions.

Lead the Business Process Optimization stream at Talota's client, Project Aerborne at Safair. Reviewed the business process from 3rd Party quotes, hanger planning, material availability for major Aircraft checks (Boeing 737, MD80, Lockheed C130). Worked closely with the Hanger Productivity optimization stream, and the Procurement Optimization stream. Implemented an Economic Order Value system for imported aircraft spares. Implemented an automated Hanger store stock provisioning system. Developed a cost model for the Safair Maintenance and Repair business.

Assisted with a LBO of a mining Engineering company, raising of venture capital and restructuring the company in terms of BBBEE.

Rosebank, Johannesburg

Implementation of the McKinsey Total Cost of Ownership philosophy. Creation of strategic group procurement for the Sasol group of companies. Establishment of 14 commodity teams as centers of excellence. Facilitated two 14 week money team processes. Audited first and second FY TCO sustainable savings with KPMG.

OEM Supplier development program. Cost reduction through Japanese Total Cost Investigation program. Productivity optimization, Reverse Engineering, Benchmarking.

T4 (S4), Industrial Engineering

Industrial Engineering

Education record

Matric

Education record

Std 4 - Std 7