The practise of holding physical merchandise for sale or distribution is known as warehousing. Warehouses are utilised by a wide range of businesses that require bulk storage of items before transporting them to other sites or individually to end users.
Warehousing is an essential part of the supply chain for most types of businesses that deal in physical goods. This could be consumer businesses holding a product that eventually makes its way to an end retail customer, or it could be business to business (B2B) companies storing products that eventually make it to business customers.