Operations

Every ward supplied and every critical item in stock, with batches and expiry on record.

Stores for your hospital's medical supplies, with batches and expiry dates, issues to wards and alerts before a critical item runs low.

Overview

Ehkam Medical Supplies Stores runs your hospital's supply stores end to end. You receive supplies by batch with their expiry dates, issue them to wards and departments, move stock between stores, count and reconcile, and get alerted before anything critical runs low, with a costed ledger of every movement. It works in Arabic and English, on the web and on the mobile app.

Because Ehkam is a configurable platform, you can shape it to your own procedures: the information each record holds, the forms, the steps a record moves through, who may do what, and what you see on your dashboards. You can do all of this without changing any code.

At a glance

How it works

  1. Receive

    Receive supplies from suppliers by batch, with their expiry dates.

  2. Issue

    Issue supplies to wards and departments, and move stock between stores.

  3. Count

    Count a store, review the result, then post it or recount.

  4. Watch

    Get alerted before a critical item runs low.

Features

Supply stores

Your central and ward stores in one storage tree.

  • Build your storage tree, from the central store down to ward stores, shelves and bins.
  • Every movement is posted to a costed stock ledger, so you always know what you hold and what it is worth.

Receiving

Supplies received by batch, with their expiry dates.

  • Post receipts from suppliers, by batch where an item is tracked that way.
  • Keep each batch's supplier, production and expiry dates from the moment it arrives.

Issues to wards

Supplies issued to where they are used.

  • Issue supplies to wards, theatres and departments, so stock follows the patient care it supports.
  • Transfer stock between stores, tracked while it is in transit, and take returns back in.

Stock counts

Counts that are reviewed before they change the ledger.

  • Count a location, review the result, then post it or send it back for a recount.
  • Count ward stores as often as you need, without stopping the work.

Stock levels and alerts

Know before you run out.

  • Set low and critical levels for each item, so life-critical supplies never run out unnoticed.
  • Storekeepers and warehouse managers are alerted when an item falls to its low or critical level.

Supplies and batches

A catalogue of your supplies, with their batches.

  • Keep your supplies by category, unit and shelf life.
  • Track each batch with its supplier and expiry date, and the shipments that brought it in.

Suppliers

Your suppliers, what each supplies and at what price.

  • Keep your suppliers, with the supplies each provides and at what price.
  • Keep a register of the services you buy beside your suppliers.

Hospitals and departments

Where your stores sit, as one tree.

  • Keep hospitals, buildings and departments nested under each other, so every store has its place.
  • Print a QR code for any location, so a phone scan opens it on the spot.

In the store

Storekeepers working on the floor, on their phones.

  • Use the mobile app on the floor, and scan a QR code to open a record straight away.
  • Geo-fencing makes sure work is done at the right place.

Included

  • Geo-fencing
  • Scannable Code

Workflows and approvals

Controlled steps and approvals for every stock action.

  • Every stock action follows a controlled lifecycle, so nothing is posted until it is ready.
  • Add approvals wherever your procedures need them, such as reviewing a count before it is posted.
  • Chain steps into multi-step processes, such as a review followed by an approval, and track every run.

Dashboards

Live views of your stock.

  • Ready-made dashboards show stock on hand, movements and items running low.
  • Build your own charts and views on any of your data.

Included

  • Dashboards
  • Embedded Views

Roles and permissions

Ready-made store roles, and exact control over who sees and does what.

  • Ready-made roles for the storekeeper and the warehouse manager, with exactly the access each needs.
  • Add roles for ward staff and pharmacy or supply teams, and decide exactly who sees and does what.

Starter roles

Ready on install, so your team can start straight away. Change what each role may do, or add your own roles, at any time.

  • Storekeeper

    Runs the store day to day: receives, issues, moves, returns and counts stock, and maintains locations and the vendor catalog.

  • Warehouse Manager

    Owns the storage tree, the vendor register, and every threshold in it.

Across the system

  • Arabic and English throughout

    Every screen and every record works in both languages.

  • Full audit trail

    Every change to every record, with who made it and when.

  • Linked records

    Connect any record to any other and follow the thread between them.

  • Attachments

    Photos and documents on any record.

  • Configurable without code

    Shape the records, forms, lifecycles, roles and dashboards to your own procedures.

Make it yours

Fields, statuses, roles and forms can all be changed after installing, so the system follows the way your team already works.

Not quite it?

Tell us what you need and we will set it up with you.