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Inventory vs Warehousing - What's the difference?

inventory | warehousing |

As nouns the difference between inventory and warehousing

is that inventory is (operations) the stock of an item on hand at a particular location or business while warehousing is the act of storing goods in a warehouse.

As verbs the difference between inventory and warehousing

is that inventory is (operations) to take stock of the resources or items on hand; to produce an inventory while warehousing is .

inventory

Noun

(inventories)
  • (operations) The stock of an item on hand at a particular location or business
  • Due to an undersized inventory at the Boston outlet, customers had to travel to Providence to find the item.
  • (operations) a detailed list of all of the items on hand
  • The inventory included several items that one wouldn't normally think to find at a cheese shop.
  • (operations) the process of producing or updating such a list
  • This month's inventory took nearly three days.
  • (lb) A space containing the available to a character for immediate use.
  • Synonyms

    * See also

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • (operations) To take stock of the resources or items on hand; to produce an inventory.
  • The main job of the night shift was to inventory the store, and restock when necessary.

    Synonyms

    * (take stock) index

    warehousing

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of storing goods in a warehouse.
  • * 1864 , Oregon. Legislative Assembly. House of Representatives
  • at San Francisco it is warehoused and reshipped to Liverpool, or other foreign market; and in exchange for this wheat, comes back the merchandise which has to pass through all these shipments, reshipments, warehousings , handlings, &c.
  • *1999 , (Philipp Blom), translating Geert Mak, Amsterdam: A Brief Life of the City , Vintage 2001, p. 90:
  • *:Warehousing was vital in a time when storms, poor harvests and wars made supplies unreliable.
  • Verb

    (head)