business management software - usually a suite of integrated applications—that a company can use to collect, store, manage and  interpret data from  many business activities, including: product planning, cost; manufacturing or service delivery; marketing and sales; inventory management; shipping and payment

key part of the supply chain and primarily aims to control the movement and storage of materials within a warehouse and process the associated transactions, including shipping, receiving, put away and picking

practice in the logistics of unloading materials from an incoming semi-trailer truck or railroad car and loading these materials directly into outbound trucks, trailers, or rail cars, with little or no storage in between