Purchased items, such as bar stock or food ingredients, transformed by manufacturing operations into an intermediate or finished item. Often used in reference to bulk or commodity items but may include individual components (piece parts) such as nuts, bolts and screws.
A good that has not been transformed by production; a primary product.
an unprocessed natural resource or product used in manufacturing.
An unprocessed natural substance used in manufacturing.
the original material as taken from its source, usually the ground. A good example is bauxite ore that is used to make aluminum.
material suitable for manufacture or use or finishing
A kind of material that has not been processed in any way. They are used to make other products. Iron, wood, and copper are raw materials.
Term used to identify different formats of information such as handwritten material, posters, bills of sale, certificates and documents, typed pages, etc. that are to be used in preparing a camera ready manuscript.
Purchased items that are used in components or finished goods.
Materials a manufacturer converts into a finished product.
Raw material supply agreement RE
Purchased items or extracted materials that are converted via the manufacturing process into components and products.
Any substance used in the production of a product excluding packaging materials.
naturally occurring starting material used to manufacture a product, such as petroleum, coal, ores, wood, hides, and cotton, as well as water and air; the intermediate product (semi-finished product) is formed from the raw material during the production process, and the finished (manufactured) products are produced from the intermediate product
Stock or items purchased from suppliers, to be input to a production process, and which will subsequently modified or transformed into finished goods.