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Warehouse

Meaning in e-commerce, with examples

/ˈwerhaʊs/nounCore term

In e-commerce, warehouse means: A large building where a business stores its products and where orders are picked, packed and prepared for shipping.

In Turkish: depo, ambar

How it is used

Used by operations, customer service and finance. Stock arrives at, is stored in and ships from the warehouse; teams talk about warehouse space, staff and cut-off times. Larger e-commerce warehouses are often called fulfillment centers.

Example sentences

  1. Orders placed before 3 p.m. leave the warehouse the same day.

  2. We're running out of warehouse space before the holiday season.

Common collocations

  • warehouse staff
  • warehouse space
  • ship from the warehouse
  • warehouse management system
  • fulfillmentAll the work needed to get an order to the customer after it is placed: storing stock, picking and packing the items and handing the parcel to a carrier.
  • inventoryAll the products a business has available to sell, and the records that show how many of each item are in stock and where.
  • pick and packThe warehouse process of collecting the ordered items from the shelves and packing them into a box with the right label and documents.
  • 3PLShort for third-party logistics: an outside company that stores a seller's stock and picks, packs and ships its orders for a fee.
  • stock levelThe number of units of a product that a seller currently has available, usually tracked per SKU and per warehouse.

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