The original software from the mSupply Foundation is mSupply – used to support people and supply chains for over 20 years, across more than 40 countries. From there, the ecosystem has grown to cover all aspects of a medicine’s lifecycle. That’s the goal for the mSupply Foundation – better access to safe and effective medicines for everyone. For that reason, we aim to make every step from pre-market approval all the way to the patient better!

Below is a summary of the many components that make up the mSupply Ecosystem:

Open mSupply

Our application for managing inventory in a store.
Click here for a detailed list of features or here for our public user documentation.

mSupply Cold Chain

Our open source Android application, mSupply Cold Chain, collects data from our Bluetooth temperature sensors.

Dashboards

Data visualisation that has access to all the data in Conforma. We use the open source Grafana Dashboard, but can also use Superset or Power BI (if you have a license).

mSupply Master Data Server

The mSupply master data server has two main functions:

1. It manages master data such as item and facility lists.
2. It collects data from every site when they synchronise. If there are orders, requisitions or shipments that involve another mSupply store, it handles sending the data to the right site.
   It usually lives in the cloud, but you can host in-country if your laws require that.
   This is the only part of the mSupply ecosystem that isn’t open source. We’re planning to work on the open source replacement in 2024/25.
   
   

Health Supply Hub

Our Health Supply Hub works with mSupply’s tender module to allow suppliers to upload their bids for tenders you’ve published. Suppliers get notified of new tenders (or RFPs), can ask questions of the customer, and view responses.