Materiel is a term used in English

English language

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 to refer to the equipment and supplies in military

Military Supply Chain Management

Military supply chain management is a cross-functional approach to procuring, producing and delivering products and services. The broad management scope includes sub-suppliers, suppliers, internal information and funds flow.-Supply:...

 and commercial

Business

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 supply chain management

Supply chain management

Supply chain management is the management of a network of interconnected businesses involved in the ultimate provision of product and service packages required by end customers...

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In a military context, materiel relates to the specific needs of a force to complete a specific mission

Military operation

Military operation is the coordinated military actions of a state in response to a developing situation. These actions are designed as a military plan to resolve the situation in the state's favor. Operations may be of combat or non-combat types, and are referred to by a code name for the purpose...

. The term is also often used in a general sense ("men and materiel") to describe the needs of a functioning army.

Materiel in the commercial distribution

Distribution (business)

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 context comprises the items being moved by the services of or as the products of the business, as distinct from those involved in operating the business itself.

See also

• Organizations
  • Air Force Materiel Command
    Air Force Materiel Command
    Air Force Materiel Command is a major command of the United States Air Force. AFMC was created July 1, 1992 through the reorganization of Air Force Logistics Command and Air Force Systems Command....
    
    
  • United States Army Medical Research and Materiel Command
    United States Army Medical Research and Materiel Command
    The United States Army Medical Research and Materiel Command is the United States Army's medical materiel developer, with responsibility for medical research, development, and acquisition and medical logistics management. The USAMRMC's expertise in these critical areas helps establish and maintain...
    
    
  • Defence Materiel Organisation
    Defence Materiel Organisation
    The Defence Materiel Organisation is the Australian Government agency responsible for the acquisition, through-life support and disposal of equipment for the Australian Defence Force...
    
    
• Anti-materiel rifle
  Anti-materiel rifle
  An anti-materiel rifle is a rifle that is designed for use against military equipment rather than against other combatants ....
  
  
• Attrition warfare
  Attrition warfare
  Attrition warfare is a military strategy in which a belligerent side attempts to win a war by wearing down its enemy to the point of collapse through continuous losses in personnel and matériel....
  
  
• Inventory
  Inventory
  Inventory means a list compiled for some formal purpose, such as the details of an estate going to probate, or the contents of a house let furnished. This remains the prime meaning in British English...
  
  
• Logistics
  Logistics
  Logistics is the management of the flow of goods between the point of origin and the point of destination in order to meet the requirements of customers or corporations. Logistics involves the integration of information, transportation, inventory, warehousing, material handling, and packaging, and...
  
  
• Loss of Strength Gradient
  Loss of Strength Gradient
  The Loss of Strength Gradient was devised by Kenneth Boulding in 1962. He argued that the amount of a nation’s military power that could be brought to bear in any part of the world depended on geographic distance. The Loss of Strength Gradient demonstrated, in graphical form, that the further away...
  
  
• Military technology and equipment
• Military Supply Chain Management
  Military Supply Chain Management
  Military supply chain management is a cross-functional approach to procuring, producing and delivering products and services. The broad management scope includes sub-suppliers, suppliers, internal information and funds flow.-Supply:...
  
  
• Plowshares Movement
  Plowshares Movement
  The Plowshares Movement is an anti-nuclear weapons movement that gained notoriety in the early 1980s when several members damaged government property and were subsequently convicted.-History:...
  
  
• Pre-paid supplies
  Pre-paid supplies
  Pre-paid supplies is a strategic studies term for those military supplies purchased prior to conflict. As a result they do not enter into the current cost considerations of conducting combat....
  
  
• Supply chain
  Supply chain
  A supply chain is a system of organizations, people, technology, activities, information and resources involved in moving a product or service from supplier to customer. Supply chain activities transform natural resources, raw materials and components into a finished product that is delivered to...
  
  
• Upward Spiral
  Upward Spiral
  Upward Spiral is a term used by Paul Kennedy in his book The Rise and Fall of Great Powers to describe the continually rising cost of military equipment relative to civilian manufactured goods. According to Kennedy there is an upward spiral at work in "all areas" of military production which is...
  
  
• War effort
  War effort
  In politics and military planning, a war effort refers to a coordinated mobilization of society's resources—both industrial and human—towards the support of a military force...