Bahmni uses openERP/Odoo mostly for Sales Management, Purchase Management, and for Inventory and Accounting. For this openERP has been adapted slightly for health facilities.
Stock/Inventory Management allows installations to:
Procure products from a supplier, and break these up by batches having their expiry dates.
Sell products from a shop which is mapped to a warehouse
Move stock units between different stocking points and warehouses
View the current stock levels by products
Automatically reduce stock of product batch quantities when patient pays for the invoice comprising products (via the billing function)
Generate various reports such as:
Sales, Discounts, Credits
Purchases
Stock Movement
Inventory Status
Organizational Accounts
Where is it Used?
Stock/Inventory Management comes into play, when a order is generated which is to be fulfilled from a pharmacy. Also when Purchase Orders and Stock Movement & Inventory Status Reports are to be generated.
Benefits
View and keep track of inventory across different locations, manage actual stock and future stock (future stock equals actual stock when it is delivered).
View batch level stock of an item across various locations.
Track stock units, when stock units are moved from a central stock room to other locations such as pharmacy, OT, laboratory, etc. This is done via Stock Movement or Internal Moves in openERP.
Enables inventory managers to raise appropiraite purchase request for inventory