Forecasting and Supply Planning for the Scale-up of New Point-of-Care EID/VL Technologies

The ForLab tool is designed to generate forecasts across an entire laboratory program. When sufficient data is available to populate ForLab, or other national quantification tools, the use of separate POC forecasting methods should be discouraged, and POC forecasting efforts should be fully integrated into the general laboratory quantification process. The following forecast approach is intended to accommodate the rapidly changing circumstances encountered when implementing a new technology