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Beyond the Stock Card: Assessing Advanced Inventory Monitoring Practices among Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Personnel in Four States of South-South Nigeria

Inventory management is frequently reduced, in health-systems research from sub-Saharan Africa, to a single question of which recording medium a facility employs — a stock card, a ledger, or a computer. This framing overlooks the substance of what a functioning inventory system actually requires its custodians to track: current stock on hand, historical consumption, losses and adjustments, supplier lead times, minimum and maximum stock thresholds, shipment and handling schedules, and provision for safety stock against demand variability. Using previously unreported items from a 2015 cross-sect…