The biggest factor here in modern warfare is that only a small percent of an attacking force can be brought to bear as long as the front holds. A BEF division on the Somme only has 16 platoons in the actual firing line and this can be matched by a regiment.
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Absolutely-- particularly for the Soviets who fought the entire war with a crippling lack of chemical industrial production (Lend Lease provided 55% of the chemicals for Soviet explosives production) and thus a shell shortage.
It is, as an aside, hard I think for a lot of people to grasp how important Lend Lease was to the USSR (in part because the Soviets later didn't want to admit it). Mother Russia provided the blood, but a LOT of the metal was reliant on lend lease.
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Though mostly it was about providing industrial goods - chemicals, train cars, engines, etc - so that Soviet industry could focus entirely on producing the direct war materiel (shells, tanks, etc). But that matters, even if it is less visible.
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Interestingly even the Soviets admitted internally about how critical the chemicals were. There's notes from a 1963 Politburo meeting where they concede how critical those were in the basic Soviet ability to wage warfare.
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