Logisticians and engineers who perform sustainment analyses should have a basic understanding of operations, system missions and profiles and the system capabilities.

Integrated logistics support (ILS) is an integrated and iterative process for developing material and a support strategy that optimizes functional support, leverages existing resources, and guides the system engineering process to quantify and lower life cycle cost and decrease the logistics footprint (demand for logistics), making the system easier to support. Although originally developed for military purposes, it is also widely used in commercial product support or customer service organisations.