The plan must provide clear answers to the following questions:
Which tasks must be carried out? How do they relate to all the other activities, and what are the correct sequences for carrying them out?
Who will be responsible for performing such tasks? (Rather than individuals, what must be identified here are organizations or departments.)
Who will be in charge of the overall coordination of the logistical system?
What resources are needed? How, when, and where can they be procured?
What alternative actions can be implemented if the system is somehow disrupted?
Preparedness must be based on the vulnerability and resource assessments normally carried out to develop a national or regional emergency response plan. We must never forget that logistics has to be a key component of any such plan.