Client Management

Clients refer to any entities who send inventory to your warehouse but still retain ownership over it.

In the context of warehouse operations, a client is an individual, a group of individuals, or a business entity that sends their inventory to a warehouse for storage or other logistical services, while retaining the ownership of these goods.

This implies that even though the inventory is physically located within the warehouse, the client still holds all the rights to their goods. The warehouse is merely providing a service - typically storage, inventory management, or distribution.

In the context of prep centers, this includes all the merchants that are serviced by the prep center.

In the context of 3PLs, this includes all the different clients that may be consistently serviced by their warehouse.

This is the opposite of a vendor. You can read the difference between them in this article.