GAPS
Gap analysis planning system (GAPS)
The gap analysis planning system (GAPS) is a tool designed to help EPI teams to assess whether their CCE infrastructure is sufficient to meet expected demand.
The GAPS module allows EPI teams to:
- Assess CCE capacity for the country
- Forecast the expected demand for CCE capacity over the next 5 years
- Compare the current CCE capacity to the expected demand
- Identify facilities that will need intervention due to increased demand
- Identify facilities that will need intervention due to CCE reaching end-of-life
Assessing CCE capacity
The CCE capacity for the country can be assessed by:
- Registering all CCE for all facilities in the CCEI module.
- Obtaining recent updates about the functional status of each CCE
- Reviewing the aggregated data
1. Registering CCE
CCE can be registered for every facility in the country by following the documentation for the CCEI module.
Each registered CCE provides data about its cold storage volume capacity:
The aggregation of these cold storage volumes from all CCE across all facilities therefore gives the Installed CCE capacity for the country (see Installed CCE capacity).
2. Updating CCE functional status
The Functioning CCE capacity is the percentage of the Installed CCE capacity that is currently working as expected.
To determine an accurate Functioning CCE capacity it is necessary to obtain recent data about the functional status of each CCE in the country.
This data can be obtained in two ways:
- Manually - each facility user submits a functional status report for each of their CCE
- Automatically - each CCE directly reports its own functional status (*future feature)
As of version 2.7, only the manual option is available.
Therefore, to obtain an accurate Functioning CCE capacity it is vitally important to implement a robust SOP for facilities so that they regularly report the functional status of their CCE by submitting a functional status report (for example, on a weekly basis)
3. Reviewing aggregated CCE data
Installed CCE capacity
The Installed CCE capacity is the aggregation of the data collected in 1. Registering CCE and can be viewed in the mSupply Dashboard.
The dashboard can be filtered by metrics such as supply level (Primary, Sub-National, Lowest Distribution etc) or temperature range (+ 5°C, -20 °C, -70°C)
Functioning CCE capacity
The Functioning CCE capacity is the aggregation of the data collected in 2. Updating CCE functional status and can be viewed in the mSupply Dashboard.
The dashboard can be filtered by metrics such as supply level (Primary, Sub-National, Lowest Distribution etc) or temperature range (+ 5°C, -20 °C, -70°C)
