"supply department" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is usually used in the context of a business or other organization with a group responsible for the procurement of materials. For example: "The supply department of this organization is responsible for acquiring the materials needed to fulfill our orders."
Due to its compatibility with even delicate surgical instruments, the process can be integrated into the large scale reprocessing of instruments in a central sterile supply department.
Officials said Essam Qasim Dijaili, head of the supply department at the Defense Ministry, was killed along with his bodyguard by four gunmen in a speeding vehicle.
Changes brought in by the team include improving response times to calls to the council's housing and supply department and reducing processing times for housing benefit claims from more than two months to under one month.
Two years later, he returned to Houston as general manager of Exxon, U.S.A.'s supply department.
Investigators say Paulo Roberto Costa, who used to be in charge of the refining and supply department of Petrobras, and Alberto Youssef, an infamous Brazilian career criminal and money launderer, built a sophisticated system of corruption and "cartelization" within Petrobras.
However, nurses working in the central sterilization supply department, operating room, neonatal unit and delivery rooms were excluded.
Moreover, such services are within the grasp not just of the supply departments of giant multinationals but also of anyone trading on eBay from the spare bedroom.
—Newstrack India, 25 July 2012* And this from Pakistan: Hours of power outage in scorching summer Monday sparked protest in most parts of Pakistan and angry protesters attacked offices of power supply departments in some areas.
The words "buy any article issued by the Army or the Air Force" are substituted for the words "purchase, from the Department of the Army, of any article issued by any of the supply departments of the Army".
Several other areas were not included in the audits such as infection control in the hemodialysis units, central sterile supply departments, operating, delivery, and emergency rooms, laboratories, pharmacies, and outpatient departments.
It wasn't in the pet-supply department at the huge discount superstore I visited.
