First-Time Deployment Setup
This page is for the person standing up a brand-new HLMIS instance for an
Getting Started
This page covers signing in, finding your way around the screen, and how
Users and Roles
Users is where administrators add people and control what they can do.
Locations and Stores
Everything in HLMIS — stock, orders, users, reports — belongs to a
Products and Configuration
Maintenance is where an administrator sets up the things the rest of the
Arrivals and Batches
Arrivals is how stock enters HLMIS from outside — a delivery from a
Stock and Inventory
Inventory is where you check what your store holds and correct it — a
Orders and Requests
Stock moves between stores as an order: a store asks its parent for
Shortfalls
A shortfall is when a store receives less than what its parent store
Returns
A return sends stock you are holding back up the hierarchy — to the
Issuing and Dispensing
Issuing is how stock leaves a store for something other than another
Reports
The Reports screen is available to anyone with the View Reports
View Mode
View Mode lets a user whose store has other stores reporting to it look
Notifications
HLMIS tells you when an order or shortfall needs your attention. There is
Settings and Integrations
Maintenance → Settings holds the deployment-wide options an