In the official organizations of Muromachi bakufu and shugo daimyo (shugo, which were Japanese provincial military governors, that became daimyo, which were Japanese feudal lords), Okura bugyo (the magistrate of storehouse) undertook to secure army provisions, but in the Sengoku period (Japan), it became common to place directly-controlled land and invested energy in securing army provisions in peacetime, and prepare konidabugyo (the commissioner of rear-echelon support troops) and, under that, konidatai (caravan of men and animals carrying supplies) in wartime.
室町幕府や守護大名の職制では、御蔵奉行が兵糧確保の任務にあたっていたが、戦国時代(日本)には、平時より蔵入地を設置して兵粮確保に力を注ぎ、戦時に際して小荷駄奉行とその下に小荷駄隊を設けるのが一般的となった。