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Material logistics are directly influenced by the characteristics of the material. Once these characteristics are identified, the logistics of the material can be planned. Relative characteristics include:
- Receiving — incoming material packaging or transportation requirements can be defined (additional information can be found in Section 4-3, Receipt and Inspection).
- Custody/safeguarding — custody is the immediate charge and control exercised by a person over Postal Service material; all Postal Service employees are responsible for safeguarding materials in their custody.
- Material storage — for example, stocking and replenishment decisions (Section 5-4, Develop, Finalize, and Implement Inventory Control Plan), positioning stock, or issuing stock.
- Administration — record keeping (e.g., Expendable Property Transaction files, Pending Verification files, and subcustody records) and reporting (e.g., reporting excess material that is identified as over and above the foreseeable needs of the Postal Service facility or organization accountable for them and is serviceable and readily available for redistribution).
- Distribution — process by which material is processed, handled, and moved within the SM Operations system to clients (e.g., the mode of transportation needed to ship material from a warehouse).
- Investment recovery — the effective end-of-life decision is addressed by the following methods — recycle, reallocate, resell, remarket, return, remanufacture, and remove (Sections 2-12, Develop Preliminary Investment Recovery Plan; 3-7, Finalize Investment Recovery Plan; 5-5, Implement Investment Recovery Plan).
- Disposal — the final removal of the product and the finalizing action of end of life (Section 6-1, Dispose).
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