Ensuring access to quality essential medicines for the most remote settings in the world.

We strengthen health supply chains in low-resource settings by building local capacity, improving data-driven logistics systems, and ensuring essential medicines and health commodities are reliably available where and when they are needed most.

Jefferson, Warehouse Supervisor and Lilian Warehouse Assistant packing medicine at NMS, Honiara, Solomon Islands

A highly experienced team of specialists

BES’s health supply chain team have completed consultancies, evaluations, assessments and reform projects in 15 LMICs across three continents, including major national reform projects in 12 countries including in Cambodia, Solomon Islands, Fiji, Samoa and Vanuatu amongst others. Staff are often embedded within Ministries of Health and work across the full Essential Medicines Cycle, from policy and forecasting through to last-mile distribution and digital systems.

Health supply chain framework

Our health supply chain framework provides an end-to-end view of how health commodities are governed, financed, moved, used, and tracked to ensure they reach people safely and effectively. It highlights the interconnected system functions required to maintain availability, quality, and accountability across the entire supply chain. BES has delivered 6 national health supply chain assessments and reform projects under this framework.

Services

End-to-end assessment

Delivery of our flagship supply chain assessment methodology and production of a costed work plan for reform. BES can also work with partners to implement the reform plan.

Procurement support

Supporting tender preparation or emergency procurements, including annual procurement plan development, quantification, budget analysis, and supplier contract management.

Distribution planning

Supporting the development and optimisation of national and sub-national distribution plans to ensure health commodities are delivered efficiently, reliably, and equitably.

LIMS and digital systems

Providing end-to-end logistics management information system (LMIS) support from scoping and defining system requirements through to implementation and user capacity-strengthening.

Policy, strategy and guidelines

Assisting governments to develop and update National Medicines Policies, Pharmacy Operational Plans, and practical guidelines that are fit-for-purpose from national level to frontline health facilities.

Stock management support

Delivering hands-on support for annual stocktake planning and execution, imprest system reviews, and waste management to improve stock accuracy, accountability, and availability.

Quality use of medicines support

Delivery of quality use of medicines (QUM) activities that address antimicrobial resistance (AMR), rational prescribing, patient safety, and other areas of interest in the local context.

Essential Medicines List review

Supporting evidence-based Essential Medicines List (EML) reviews by analysing clinical guidelines and stock consumption data, and facilitating structured consultation with key stakeholders.

Staff training

Design and delivery of practical training for supply chain staff from national warehouses to last-mile delivery, including peer-to-peer and on-the-job learning models that build sustainable capacity.

Affordable, scalable, powerful software solutions.

We are proud implementation partners of mSupply, the world’s most widely used health supply chain LMIS for low and middle-income settings. Coupled with our BI tool, Tupaia, we can implement a fit-for-purpose software solution, whatever the context. Single facility or a network of thousands? Our highly experienced team can steer you through the digitisation process and provide all the resources you need to ensure success.

BES partners with the mSupply Foundation to run the supply chain Data & Technical Assistance Centre (DTAC) across six Pacific Island Countries and Territories. This initiative, supported by New Zealand’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade provides a comprehensive suite of supply chain technical assistance and resources to Samoa, Tonga, Tuvalu, Tokelau, Cook Islands and Niue.