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Strategic material is any sort of raw material that is important to an individual's or organization's strategic plan and supply chain management. Lack of supply of strategic materials may leave an organization or government vulnerable to disruption of the manufacturing of products which require those materials. [ 1 ]
A buffer stock scheme (commonly implemented as intervention storage, the "ever-normal granary") is a price stabilization scheme in which surplus commodities are bought and stored for later sale during shortages, usually for an individual commodity market or an entire economy.
Global strategic petroleum reserves (GSPR) refer to crude oil inventories (or stockpiles) held by the government of a particular country, as well as private industry, to safeguard the economy and help maintain national security during an energy crisis. Strategic reserves are intended to be used to cover short-term supply disruptions.
Commodity management is the process of developing a systematic approach to the entire usage cycle for a group of items. The term is often used interchangeably with category management .
A commodities exchange is an exchange where various commodities and derivatives are traded. Most commodity markets across the world trade in agricultural products and other raw materials (like wheat, barley, sugar, maize, cotton, cocoa, coffee, milk products, pork bellies, oil, metals, etc.) and contracts based on them. These contracts can ...
A strategic reserve can be: Financial in nature such as ring-fenced funding or capital reserves of a large corporation. A commodity, such as intervention stocks of food or petrol (see security of supply and strategic petroleum reserves) Specific machinery, such as railroad cars or steam locomotives, to be used in an emergency situation.
Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act of 1939; Long title: An Act to provide for the common defense by acquiring stocks of strategic and critical materials essential to the needs of industry for the manufacture of supplies for the armed forces and the civilian population in time of a national emergency, and to encourage, as far as possible, the further development of strategic and ...
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