"Logistics management is the process of planning, preparing, implementing, and evaluating all logistics functions that support an operation or activity. Effective logistics management ensures all functions are executed in a unified manner to reduce costs, ensure appropriate support actions, and decrease delivery time. Individual logistics functions and associated sub functions include: (1) Materiel Management. Requisitioning, ordering, and sourcing (requirements processing); acquisition; asset visibility (resource tracking); receipt; storage and handling; security; accountability; inventory; deployment; issue and distribution; recovery; reuse; and disposition; (2) Property Management (Personal Property). Accountability, inventory, disposal, and record processing; (3) Facility Management. Facility selection and acquisition, building services, information systems, communications, fleet management, safety and health, and physical security; and (4) Transportation Management. Transportation prioritizing, ordering, sourcing, and acquisition; time-phasing plans; and movement coordination and tracking". (FEMA, Logistics Management Support Annex, Jan 2003, p. LM-1-2)