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An accessible, open-source inventory and supply chain management system.

OpenBoxes was initially conceptualized by staff atPartners In Health as a way to digitize the delivery, inventory, and consumption of emergency medical supplies in Haiti in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake.

Today, OpenBoxes runs in healthcare facilities all over the world, including in Sierra Leone, Lesotho, Rwanda, Liberia, and the United States, providing staff with the tools they need to ensure that lifesaving medication is always available to patients when they need it.

But OpenBoxes isn't only for global health systems. As an open source project, the OpenBoxes community has helped evolve the application into a robust, general-purpose warehouse management system that services supply chains across a wide array of industries.

As a community, OpenBoxes strives for:

• 🚀Efficiency: Our mission remains deeply rooted in our origin story. The application should run smoothly, reliably, and affordably in low-resource environments.

• ↪️Flexibility: The application should be adaptable to the everchanging needs of each facility, and flexible enough to apply itself to the unique requirements and structures of vastly different supply chains systems.

• 🤝Accessibility: The application should be intuitive to use, simple to get up and running, and affordable to maintain.

• 🎩Sophistication: We don't want the accessibility of our software to come at the expense of quality. We pride ourselves on open-sourcing a world-class suite of feature-rich tools that you'd normally expect to see only in paid, enterprise tier software.

Seeour website for a list of some of the primary features of the application or check out ourdemo site to experiment with the application yourself!

See ourlocal setup instructions for a step-by-step guide on how to quickly get an OpenBoxes server running on your local machine.

If you're a system administrator looking to deploy the application to a production server, take a look at ourinstallation documentation instead.

Do you need assistance running or using the app? Have you encountered an issue/bug?

See oursupport guide for more information.

Are you looking to help out the project? Please see ourcontributor guide.

This project exists thanks to all the generous people who have contributed their valuable time and effort over the years:

We are incredibly grateful to all the individuals and organizations thatsponsor OpenBoxes with a financial contribution:

This project is licensed under theEclipse Public License 1.0. See theLICENSE.md file for a copy of the full license.

By using or contributing to this software in any fashion, you are agreeing to be bound by the terms of this license.

You must not remove this licensing notice or any other notices from this software.