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Warehouse Deal Glossary
A Warehouse Deal is a listing in the resale storefront for open-box, used, or refurbished stock — typically items that began as customer returns or were damaged within the fulfilment network, resold at a discount under a distinct grading.
WBR (Weekly Business Review) Glossary
A Weekly Business Review is the standing meeting at which performance is examined against plan: the metrics, the issues behind them, and the commitments for the coming week. It is a management rhythm rather than a report.
WCO (World Customs Organization) Glossary
The World Customs Organization is the intergovernmental body that sets the international standards governing how goods are classified, valued, and cleared across borders.
WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) Glossary
WEEE is the European directive making producers responsible for the collection, treatment, and recycling of electrical and electronic products once they reach end of life. It applies across European markets and to sellers, not only to manufacturers with a physical presence there.
Wholesale Glossary
Wholesale means selling in bulk to a buyer who then retails the goods. On a marketplace it describes two related things: the first-party model, in which the brand supplies the platform as a wholesaler, and the sourcing model in which a reseller buys branded goods in bulk to sell on.
Wholesale Sourcing Glossary
Wholesale Sourcing is the reseller model: buying branded products in bulk from manufacturers or authorised distributors at trade pricing and selling them on existing listings, at a margin between the buy price and the retail price.
WHS (Warehouse Health and Safety) Glossary
Warehouse Health and Safety is the framework of facility standards, equipment training, and handling procedures that protect the people working in a warehouse from injury: how racking is managed, how machinery is operated, how goods are lifted, and how incidents are recorded and investigated.
WIP (Work in Progress) Glossary
WIP (Work in Progress) is inventory caught mid-manufacture: materials committed and money spent, but the goods not yet finished and therefore not yet sellable.
WOC (Weeks of Cover) Glossary
Weeks of Cover measures how long current stock will last at the present rate of sale: units on hand divided by weekly sales. The answer is a runway expressed in weeks, which is exactly how inventory decisions are actually made.
Working Capital Glossary
Working capital is the difference between current operational assets — inventory, receivables, cash — and current liabilities such as supplier payments and platform fees. In practice it is the money available to run the business day to day.
WoW (Week over Week) Glossary
WoW (Week over Week) compares this week’s figure with last week’s: the highest-frequency trend view that is still worth having. It is used across sales, units, traffic, conversion, availability, and advertising performance.
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