The Swedish Armed Forces Logistics (FMLOG) was established on 1 January 2002 from the remnants of the Maintenance Regiment (
Underhållsregemente) organization. The stated main purpose was to bring about rationalizations and increased cost efficiency. An important task was to dismantle and reduce the anti invasion defence concept's (
invasionsförsvar) extensive
materiel and supply stock and adapt to new conditions. FMLOG was established as a joint resource of the
Swedish Armed Forces for a number of differentiated activities that were not characterized as core activities, but as support. These activities are e.g. storage, transport, environmental activities, workshops, IS support, reserve equipment supply, military restaurants, procurement, travel administration, payroll and financial management and administrative support. At the start, FMLOG was divided into three divisions under the staff: Supply, Technology and Service. FMLOG's management and staff was located in
Karlstad, the Supply Division's management was located in
Boden, the Technology Division's management was in
Arboga and the Service Division's management was in
Karlskrona. The payroll and financial accounting was concentrated in five locations:
Stockholm,
Visby, Karlskrona,
Karlsborg and Boden. On 1 January 2005, the staff unit moved from Karlstad to Stockholm. In June 2012, the
Riksdag decided that parts of FMLOG would be transferred to the
Defence Materiel Administration (FMV) on 1 January 2013. The activities affected by the transfer were the main part of the procurement unit, the workshops and parts of the service office and the supply unit as well as parts of FMLOG's central management and staff function. The purpose was to create more efficient defense logistics within the framework of already existing agencies. ==Activities==