The phrase "an outside supply" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a source of goods or resources that comes from outside a particular organization or system.
Example: "The company decided to seek an outside supply for raw materials to reduce costs."
Alternatives: "external source" or "outside source".
In the fall of 2009, in its only real negotiation with the Iranian government, the Obama administration proposed that Iran agree to a fuel swap in which the West would provide an outside supply of fresh nuclear fuel for a research reactor in Tehran.
The P5-plus-1 group countered by demanding that Iran export its stockpile of 20 percent enriched uranium and disband the underground facility where it is produced, in exchange for an outside supply of processed nuclear fuel that cannot be used for weapons, a limited easing of sanctions and vows of more relief if Iran cooperates.
They need an outside supply.
In a B2B sense it facilitates the substitution of an outside supply chain for company-owned manufacturing.
It also called for an arms embargo that applies to the entire territory of Libya, which means that any outside supply of arms to the opposition would have to be covert.
Auditors found a template for invoices from the outside supply company, Legacy officials said, as well as computer code that showed the template had been designed and generated by someone using Sanwoola's log-in.
HRT MUSIC STREAMER II+ $350 The HRT, the smallest DAC tested and the one with the sleekest case, is the only one powered by a USB cable, not an outside power supply.
Creating such directional motion in a sea of random thermal motion at the molecular level without an outside energy supply would appear to be a violation of the second law of thermodynamics because work (or order) is created from an isothermal state.
Cut off, with no means of outside supply, Napoleon's expeditionary army was forced to attempt to become true rulers of Egypt.
In FORBES GLOBAL's special B2B feature we talked about what this entails: using the Internet to substitute outside supply chains for in-house manufacture, economizing on expensive capital, leveraging assets by investing in brand rather than physical assets.
So OPEC can no longer control the price and supply as well as they used to, because there is too much outside supply and too much growing volatility in demand.
