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Fire & EMS Inventory Control

Fire and EMS Inventory Management Software

One inventory for everything your department stocks: medical supplies and medications, SCBA, tools and equipment, and the cleaning, office and kitchen supplies every station goes through. Track it by warehouse, station, rig and compartment, on the phone your crews already carry.

Built in: station supply ordering. Stations order what they need, the warehouse fills it, and the counts move on both ends by themselves.

What You Can Track

Not Just The Ambulance. The Whole Department.

Your inventory doesn't stop at the drug box, so the software shouldn't either. Emergency Logs keeps one catalog for every category you buy, stock or hand out, with its own PAR levels, counts and history at every location.

Category Examples What Emergency Logs tracks
Medical consumables Airway supplies, IV start kits, bandaging, gloves, OB kits PAR by location, restock after calls, usage by station and rig
Non-controlled medications Fluids, epinephrine, naloxone, aspirin, glucose Lot and expiration date, alerts before expiry, rotation between units
Fire equipment and tools SCBA packs and cylinders, thermal imagers, hand tools, nozzles and appliances Asset tag and serial number, which rig it is on, checkouts, service tickets and full history
Durable equipment and assets Monitors, suction units, stretchers, radios, gas detectors Warranty and next maintenance dates, purchase cost, funding program, assignment history
Station and facility supplies Cleaning and decon, paper goods, office, kitchen, rehab supplies PAR at each station, supply orders to the warehouse, spend by station
Controlled substances Fentanyl, midazolam, ketamine, morphine Handled in Narcotics Tracking, with vial-level chain of custody for the DEA PPAEMA rule
Station Supply System

Fire and EMS Inventory Management From the Warehouse to the Rig

Station supply orders run on the same inventory, not beside it. Nobody types a delivery into a second system, and nobody recounts the shelf to find out what arrived.

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Station

Order From PAR

The order screen suggests how many of each item the station needs to reach PAR, counting what is already on its shelves and its rigs. One tap fills every suggestion.

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Supply officer

Fill From The Warehouse

The order goes to whoever handles that order type. They fill each line from the warehouse that has it, and the system remembers that source next time. Short lines go on back order.

3
Station

Receive And Put Away

The crew confirms what arrived and splits it across the station and its rigs, with current stock and PAR shown for each spot. Lot numbers and expiration dates come with it.

4
Automatic

Counts Move Themselves

The warehouse count goes down, the station and rig counts go up, and every move is written to the audit trail. What the screen says matches the shelf.

The Supply Officer's Side

  • A supply dashboard with open orders, back orders, today's orders and orders by station
  • Order types such as EMS, station and office supplies, each notifying the right people
  • A log of who was notified about each order and who has opened it
  • Back orders tracked line by line until they are filled
  • Stock removals logged with where the stock went, and an email when it leaves a location

Order Analytics

  • Cycle time from order to fill, receipt and close, and which stations wait longest
  • Fill rate, units short and the value of what never arrived
  • Spend by station, order type, category and item
  • PARs set too low (crews keep ordering past them) and too high (stock that never moves)
Capabilities

What the Inventory Module Does

Generic inventory software is built for a warehouse. Fire and EMS stock lives in a warehouse, several stations and a dozen rigs, some of it expires, and some of it gets signed out to a person. Emergency Logs is built for all three.

Locations The Way You're Organized

Warehouses, stations, rigs and the cabinets or compartments inside them, each with its own stock. Set up one engine and copy the layout to the next.

PAR Levels by Location

Minimum and maximum stock for each item at every location, with below, at and over PAR shown at a glance. Copy PARs from one rig to the rest of the fleet.

Expiration Tracking

Every lot carries its expiration date. See what expires in 7, 30 and 90 days, the dollar value at risk, and send alerts in time to rotate stock to a busy unit.

Barcode & QR Scanning

Scan with the phone camera or a handheld scanner. Keep the scanner open during a transfer and each scan adds one more. No scanner hardware required.

Stock Counts

Count a location on the phone, or print a count sheet for the supply room. Every count is saved as its own record for the audit.

Equipment Registry

Asset tag, serial number, manufacturer, warranty, next maintenance date and funding program for every piece of equipment. Print asset labels and open a service ticket from its record.

Check Out To Members

Sign equipment out to a member or a location with a due date, check it back in with its condition, and see what is overdue.

Vendor Restock Orders

Generate restock orders for everything below PAR, split by vendor. Receive partial deliveries and the rest stays open until it arrives.

Inventory Intelligence

Days of supply left, fast movers, dead stock, chronic back orders, usage trends and a movement history for every item. Numbers for budget season.

The Product

The Screen Your Logistics Officer Will Use

The inventory dashboard, first thing in the morning. Catalog size, locations stocked, everything below PAR and everything expiring in the next thirty days, with the restock order one click away. Stock counts and transfers run from the phone at the shelf.

Emergency Logs fire and EMS inventory management dashboard on a desktop: total catalog items, active locations, low stock items, expiring soon, a low stock alert list by station and quick actions for stock count, transfer and restock order
The dashboard across four stations and eight apparatus. Low stock is listed by item and station, with the PAR level beside each.
The inventory dashboard on a phone
The same dashboard on a phone, for the supply officer who is rarely at a desk.
Station supply room shelves stocked by PAR level
Why It Matters

Why Departments Move Inventory Off the Spreadsheet

A spreadsheet tells you what someone typed last week. Inventory software tells you what is on the shelf, the rig and the member's locker right now, and what is about to expire.

  • One system for medical, fire equipment and station supplies instead of three lists
  • Station orders that update the counts on both ends, with no re-entry
  • A record of who moved, ordered, received or signed out every item
  • Usage and spend by station when it is time to defend the budget
  • Less waste from expired stock, fewer empty shelves on a call
Guide

EMS Inventory Management: A Practical Guide

How to set PAR levels from real usage, cut expired-stock waste, restock rigs after a call, and what to look for when you move off the spreadsheet.

Questions

Fire and EMS Inventory Management FAQs

Fire and EMS inventory management software tracks everything a department keeps in its warehouse, stations and apparatus: medical supplies and medications, SCBA, tools and equipment, and station supplies such as cleaning, office and kitchen stock. It replaces paper sheets and spreadsheets with PAR levels for each location, expiration alerts, ordering and restock workflows, and usage reports, so the department knows what is on every shelf and every rig without a manual count.

No. EMS supplies are one part of it. The same catalog holds fire equipment and tools, durable equipment such as monitors and radios, and station and facility supplies. Each category gets its own PAR levels, counts and history at every location, and equipment gets an asset tag, serial number, warranty and maintenance dates.

A station opens a supply order and the system suggests how many of each item it needs to reach PAR, counting what is on its shelves and its rigs. The order goes to the people set up for that order type. The supply officer fills each line from a warehouse, and anything short goes on back order. When the station receives it, the crew splits the delivery across the station and its rigs. The warehouse count goes down and the station counts go up automatically, with lot numbers, expiration dates and an audit trail carried along.

Yes. The warehouse, each station, each unit and the compartments inside it can be separate locations with their own PAR levels. Stock is transferred between them with a record of who moved what and when, so a rig that is short shows up as short.

Yes. Equipment can be checked out to a member or a location with an expected return date and checked back in with its condition. Overdue equipment is listed, and each item keeps its full checkout, location and service ticket history.

Controlled substances are tracked in the Narcotics Tracking module, which keeps a vial-level chain of custody for the DEA PPAEMA rule. The Inventory module handles medical supplies, non-controlled medications, fire equipment, durable equipment and station supplies. Both run under the same login.

No. Crews scan barcodes and QR codes with the camera on the phone or tablet they already carry, and a handheld USB or Bluetooth scanner works too if you have one. Emergency Logs runs in the browser, so there is no app to install.

Import your item list from a CSV or Excel file using the catalog template, or we build your catalog, locations and PAR levels with you during setup, starting from whatever list or spreadsheet you use today.

Yes. Emergency Logs is priced per agency, not per user or per device, so a single-station volunteer department can put every member on the system. Support is included.

See Your Whole Department's Inventory on One Screen

Open the live demo to see a four-station department with real PAR levels, low stock, expirations and station supply orders, or book a walkthrough on your own item list.