Firefighter Logistics / Tour

Tour: a station supply request, start to finish

Here is one station supply request in Firefighter Logistics, from the supply room shelf to the budget, on a phone at every step. The department is a made-up sample; the screens are the real product.

1. 1The station counts its supply room

   A member counts what is on the shelf in the station's medical supply room. Four items are below what the station keeps on hand.

   

2. 2What is short becomes a request

   Saving the count asks the warehouse for exactly what is missing. Nobody has to write a list or send a text.

   

3. 3Logistics sees it

   The request lands in the logistics officer's list beside every other station's, oldest first, with what is still outstanding.

   

4. 4Logistics fills it

   The logistics officer sees what the station asked for and what the warehouse has, and fills it.

   

5. 5It goes on the truck

   The filled request is picked for the next run to the station, and the station can see it is on the way.

   

6. 6The station confirms it arrived

   When the delivery arrives, the station says so - or a battalion chief does when the station is out. Where the department asks for it, nothing is left as "I thought someone signed for it".

   

7. 7The cost lands on the station

   What was delivered is counted out of the warehouse and costed to the station that received it, ready for the budget by station, apparatus, month or category.