Forecasting & supply planning for global health
Health supply chains that adapt to the country.
Akiba Health is a modular, AI-augmented platform for forecasting and supply planning of vaccines and other health commodities. It replaces fragmented spreadsheets with one workflow, from setup to procurement to review.
The problem
Billions invested each year. Millions of children still missed.
Immunization programs run on tools that can't keep up. When forecasts miss, children miss doses, or vaccines expire on the shelf.
Inaccurate forecasts
Stockouts cause missed vaccinations and equity gaps. Overstock leads to costly expiry and waste.
Manual errors
Slow data entry, version-control failures and no real-time view of supply status.
Fragmented workflows
Planning, procurement and review run in disconnected silos with no integrated oversight.
Rigid tools
A new vaccine, device or protocol arrives, and current systems fall behind.
Even digital tools force countries to adapt to the tool. Akiba Health adapts to the country.
The platform
An adaptive platform, not a fixed product
Designed to fit each country's program today and to evolve as products, devices and protocols change.
Modular by design
Start with forecasting, add supply planning, procurement tracking and new commodities. No forced adoption.
AI-augmented development
New modules and country-specific adaptations ship in weeks, not years.
Locally grounded
Built with in-country teams and practitioners, so it reflects how countries actually work.
Adaptive over time
New products and protocols are absorbed by configuration, without a rewrite.
The product
One workflow, from setup to sign-off
Follow a national FSP cycle through Akiba Health. Select a stage to see the working prototype.
Built on a proven foundation. Akiba Health translates the forecasting logic, supply planning rules and financial allocation models of FSP4All, the planning tool national immunization programs already use, into modern, adaptive software.
Working today
Built for the realities of country programs
Forecasting methods
Demographic, stratified by region, facility and district consumption, zero-dose catch-up and manual write-in, combined with confidence weights.
Languages
Every screen translatable, including right-to-left Arabic.
User roles
Platform and country admins, program managers, forecasting and procurement leads, each with scoped access.
Country setups
Currency, administrative divisions, fiscal year and terminology configured per country.
Who it's for
For the teams who plan, and the partners who fund
Ministries of Health & EPI teams
Plan with confidence, in your own terms
- Configure your programs, vaccines, devices, supply chain tiers and funding sources.
- Run multiple forecasting methods and lock one official forecast.
- See months of stock, stockout risk and funding gaps before they happen.
- Produce the UNICEF FSP submission directly from your plan.
Funders & global partners
An institution that outlives its founding grant
- Comparable, sub-national planning data across countries.
- One platform that extends from vaccines to HIV, malaria and family planning.
- A path to self-sustaining subscription revenue by Year 3.
- Led by the builder of the tool countries already trust.
The vision
Born from immunization. Built for every commodity.
Real-time visibility, sub-national equity targeting and a common standard, with country-specific configuration as a first-class feature.
Three-year roadmap
From pilot to sustainable enterprise
A one-year pilot proves a tool works. A three-year enterprise proves it persists: countries renew, and the institution outlives its founding grant.
- Core modular platform deployed for immunization
- Forecasting and supply planning validated with real country data
- First AI-augmented development cycles; revenue model tested
- HIV, malaria and family planning modules
- AI for forecast accuracy and buffer stock optimization
- Enterprise structure formed; first paid subscriptions
Milestone: revenue-positive pilot cohort
- Full commodity coverage
- Prescriptive analytics for procurement and equity
- Self-sustaining on subscription and value-based revenue
Milestone: a going concern without grant funding
Service model
Start free. Grow into what you need.
Foundation
For countries that need a stable digital replacement for Excel, and pilot partners.
- FSP setup & configuration
- Single-method forecasting
- Manual supply planning
- Standard reports & exports
Professional
For countries that need advanced, multi-method planning.
- Multi-method forecasting & combination
- Automated supply planning
- Financial allocation
- Procurement lifecycle tracking
- Multi-language support
Enterprise / AI
For countries and organizations seeking maximum efficiency.
- Everything in Professional
- Predictive inventory optimization
- Equity & risk scoring
- Prescriptive procurement & automated re-forecasting
The team
Led by the person who built the original
Noel Watson
CEO
- Built UNICEF's FSP4All forecasting and supply planning tool, used in 20+ countries
- Trained national immunization teams and ran the feedback loop for three years
- PhD, Operations Management, The Wharton School; founder of Ops Mend
Mohan Balachandran
CTO
- 25+ years across healthcare, data and technology
- IT architecture, interoperability, analytics and behavioral science
- Founded multiple health IT companies; supply chain IT background at i2
Abhijit Bhattacharya
Engineering
- Co-founder of Rapidi2i, bespoke decision-support software
- Former McKinsey consultant
- 15+ years in technology strategy, development and delivery
Not a greenfield concept. A modernization of a proven system, led by the person who built it, alongside the people who use it.
Let's talk
Help shape the standard for global health supply chains.
Ministries, funders and implementing partners: tell us a little about your work and we'll follow up to tailor Akiba Health to your priorities.
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