Reception of the equipment into service, its distribution and storage, repair, maintenance and disposal are clearly a consumer logistic task. However, the initial design of the equipment which is part of production logistics has to take account of the consumer aspects of repair and maintenance, and therefore involves both disciplines. Supply Function of Logistics 108. The supply function includes the determination of stock levels, provisioning, distribution and replenishment. Maintenance and Repair Function of Logistics 109.
Maintenance means all actions to retain the materiel in or restore it to a specified condition.
The operational effectiveness of land, naval and air forces will depend to a great extent on a high standard of preventive maintenance, in peacetime, of the equipment and associated materiel in use. Repair includes all measures taken to restore materiel to a serviceable condition in the shortest possible time. It is designed to restore damaged materiel to a battleworthy condition, irrespective of the cause of the failure, as quickly as possible. Damage assessment has to be done rapidly and must not always require the use of automated test equipment or sophisticated tools. The considerations are primarily aimed at limiting the damage, determining the cause of the damage, establishing a plan for damage repair, and minimizing the risk to equipment and operators.