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

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

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