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  Supplier may refer to:

  • Manufacturer, uses tools and labor to make things for sale
  • Processor (manufacturing), converts a product from one form to another
  • Packager (manufacturing), encloses products for distribution, storage, sale, and use
  • Distributor (business), the middleman between the manufacturer and retailer
  • Wholesaler, sells goods or merchandise to retailers
  • Dealership
    Dealership

    A dealership is an authorized seller and may refer to:*Franchised dealership*Car dealershipSee also*Dealership *Dealer ...
    , local franchised distribution
    • Drug dealer, supplies illegal drugs
  • Merchant
    Merchant

    Merchants function as professionals who deal with trade, dealing in commodities that they do not produce themselves, in order to produce profit....
    , a professional dealing with trade


See also


  • Supply chain
    Supply chain

    A supply chain or logistics network is the system of organizations, people, technology, activities, information and resources involved in moving a product or service from Vendor to customer....
  • Supply network
    Supply network

    A supply network is a pattern of temporal and spatial processes carried out at facility nodes and over distribution links, which adds value for customers through the manufacturing and delivery of Product ....
  • Supply chain network
    Supply chain network

    Due to the rapid advancement of technology such as pervasive or ubiquitous wireless and internet networks, connective product marking technologies like RFID and emerging standards for the use of these defining specific locations using Global Location Number, the basic supply chain is rapidly evolving into what is known as a Supply Chain Network....
  • Supply
    Supply

    supply is the amount of good or services a business providesSupply may refer to:*Supply and demand theory*Confidence and supply#Supply for a Government budget, in the Westminster System...
     (disambiguation)
  • Vendor (supply chain)
    Vendor (supply chain)

    A vendor, or a supplier, is a supply chain management term meaning anyone who provides goods or services to a company. A vendor often manufactures inventoriable items, and sells those items to a customer....