Knowledge Base for Supply App

Supply App Release notes 2023.8

Table of contents

1. Enhance result accuracy by modeling site closure

2. Visualize and understand what is driving the CO2e emissions of the trial

3. Other updates

4. Bug fixes

5. User documentation

1. Enhance result accuracy by modeling site closure

Previously, the Supply App did not allow to model closed sites which lead to the use of error prone and time consuming workarounds.

With Supply.2023.8, you are now able to define sites as “closed” in the new “Sites status (for simulations)” column (in the “Sites” tab of the Initial state, see image below). This allows the system to ignore these closed sites in the simulations (see “Impacts of site closure on simulations” further below), e.g. if the recruitment is stopped at this site.

To easily identify potential sites to close, you can use the “Active patients” column (see image below). A site can be closed only if there are no active patients in it. For example, if a site is not recruiting anymore, but there are active patients still receiving treatment there, that site cannot be closed.

The “Non-expired kits” column (see image below) gives you information on the potential loss of kits if a site is closed.

You can filter the table and display only sites without active patients, and then use the edit bulk to close all of them. 

1.1. Directly set patient statuses in the Initial state

In the “Initial state”, users are now able to give a specific status (active, discontinued or completed) to a patient. This status is directly displayed in the new “Status” column (“Patients” tab), in place of the former “Discontinued” column (see images below).

Before Supply.2023.8:

Now:

Furthermore, when pasting information from this table to an excel file, the status of the patient is now displayed, instead of a “True/False” value for discontinued patients.

An error is displayed when a patient with a completed status does not have a completion date and/or when an active patient has a completion date (see image below).

An error is displayed when a patient with a completed status does not have a completion date and/or when an active patient has a completion date (see image below).

2. Visualize and understand what is driving the CO2e emissions of the trial

Since Supply.2023.6, you can input CO2e emissions in the Supply App to get the forecasted shipment and productions emissions in results of your trials.

In addition, you can now visualize and analyze the CO2e emissions in the Results dashboard.

The new “Sustainability” sheet displays the emission information per country and per year (see image below).

You can also display the emissions per country on a map in a second view (see image below). 

Through the two views, sustainability managers can answer many questions on the subject:

• What are the CO2e emissions for my trial?
• Are the emissions driven by production or shipments?
• Where are those emissions coming from? (country and year granularity)
• What are the emissions per package type?
• Which country is driving the emissions?

3. Other updates

3.1. Team manager role upgrade

Previously, as a Team manager, you could add/remove users from teams only if you were admin of the team as well.
Now, Team managers can add/remove users from any team defined in the system.

3.2. Get a better visibility of unmatched visits at the initial state creation

The visibility of unmatched visits at the initial state creation has been improved. A message is shown with explicit information related to unmatched visit that will be ignored in the initial state creation (see image below). As an impact,

• Patients that have unmatched visits as their last observed visits are recorded with their latest matched visit instead.  

• In case the unmatched visits are dispensing visits, the number of kits dispensed is not considered in the past dispensing information.

3.3. Define “before” and “after” visit windows

In the “Visit intervals” table (“Treatment visits” tab), you can now accurately model a treatment schedule with asymmetric visit windows, i.e., “before” and “after” visit windows (see image below).

3.4. Filter on empty values

You can now include empty values in your filtering selection (see image below).

3.6. Monitoring dashboard retro-compatibility update

Starting from the next Supply.2024.1 version, results generated before Supply.2023.2 will not display the previous version of the Monitoring dashboard anymore.

An information banner is displayed in all the impacted results to warn you of these upcoming changes.

3.7. Upcoming removal of “Points of attention”

Starting from the next Supply.2024.1 version, the “Points of attention” will be removed from Trial master data. The reasons for this are double: 1) it was used in the previous version of the Monitoring dashboard which will be deprecated (see 3.6. above) and 2) the usage was almost inexistent.

An information banner is added in this version (Supply.2023.8) to warn you of these upcoming changes (see image below).

3.8. A more user-friendly User documentation

The software used to display and search the User documentation of the Supply App is now aligned with the one used to display release notes. You can now navigate and search the user documentation more easily (see image below).

4. Bug fixes

The following issues are now fixed: 

• Portfolio contributors could not open the strategic dashboard.
• Unselecting all rows while a filter is applied was not working.

5. User documentation

The following articles are added (or have been modified) to enrich the documentation and help you in your usage of the N-SIDE Supply App:

• Initial state setup
• Results dashboard – Sustainability