"poor supplies" is correct and usable in written English.
You use it to describe something that has an inadequate or decreased amount of something that may be necessary. For example, "The school was struggling with poor supplies of textbooks and other educational materials."
Because of their low pay and poor supplies, Mr. Crouch said, the military in the Malukus has been broken into small units that are billeted with local residents.
And in a city where you can spend a day or two hunting for eggs, restaurateurs contend with blackouts and poor supplies and rely on visitors to bring in everything from Parmesan cheese to foie gras.
This would yield correspondingly higher costs associated with illness due to poor supplies of water and sanitation.The United Nations Millennium Development Goall for water and sanitation is to halve the numbers lacking access to basic supplies by 2015.
The findings offered by the committee's members and the positive, heavy media coverage of its hearings – not to mention the scores of letters sent home by soldiers complaining of their poor supplies – shielded the committee, such that a motion offered by Representative Stevens to curtail its work was soundly defeated.
What's really arresting about Buzzer--sound designer Bray Poor supplies many front door buzzes--is Laura Jellinek's set.
With his army weakened by disease mostly bubonic plague and poor supplies, Bonaparte was unable to reduce the fortress of Acre and returned to Egypt in May.
"There is a huge demand and a poor supply of good major gift fundraisers," he adds.
The site, badly chosen, was exposed to the weather, unsuitable for growing food and offered a poor supply of water.
If the old productionist policy was a response to problems of poor supply, today we need more subtle solutions.
Infrastructure is often poor, supply chains tricky, red tape a hazard, and markets for people, materials and finished goods unreliable.
This sluggishness is despite successive governments' attempts to liberalise the restrictive planning that they say is to blame for poor supply.
