The Plateforme Alimentaire de Guyane, run by the French Red Cross, supplies a network of local charity partners in Cayenne with food and hygiene products funded by multiple donors, including EU programmes. Managing this on Excel had reached its limits: no accounting valuation of stock, no clear visibility per partner or per funder, and manual statistics that were increasingly error-prone as volumes grew.
A generic warehouse management system had previously been deployed and rejected: its coded references and supply-chain abstractions did not match the reality of food-aid distribution. Rather than retrofit another tool, Relief Applications restarted from the user’s actual workflow. Working sessions with the PFA manager mapped the full operational cycle — from supplier orders to EU-compliant donation receipts — and translated it into a lightweight set of requirements. The decision was made to build a bespoke Django application, keeping the stack simple and the interface focused on clarity over feature density.
A complete web application covering the full lifecycle: supplier order circuit with partial receptions, stock entries with per-donor valuation at purchase price, distributions with auto-generated EU-standard bons de donation (PDF), a real-time dashboard with monthly trends and meal equivalents, destruction tracking, accounting valuation by funder and year, and one-click Excel exports. Three user roles (administrator, operator, read-only) ensure proper separation of duties.
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