Name: VV 30 - Business English Vocabulary for Supply Chain Management 1 | English for Logistics
Uploaded: 2026-01-19T16:58:39.000Z
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Head over to businessenglishpod.com to get started when we think of supply chain management, we usually think of logistics.

But supply chain management is about more than just shipping goods from point A to point B.

In this lesson, we'll look at the basic steps in the supply chain, beginning with suppliers who sell materials or parts to the manufacturers that assemble products.

The products then go to distributors who transport them to retailers, where they are then sold to consumers or end users.

Supply Chain Supply Chain A supply chain is the entire network of businesses involved in providing goods or services to a customer.

This includes all the processes related to the creation, storage, and movement of a product.

The supply chain for gasoline begins with extracting oil from the ground and ends with the gas sold at the pump.

Logistics Logistics Logistics is the process of managing the flow and storage of materials, goods, information, and capital.

Good planning and communication is essential to good logistics.

Our logistics department has a sophisticated system for tracking materials through the supply chain.

Shipping Shipping Shipping is the movement of goods and cargo either by land, air, or sea.

We offer customers different shipping options with different delivery speeds and costs.

Supplier Supplier A supplier is a business that provides goods or services to other businesses.

A manufacturer usually relies on several or even hundreds of different suppliers.

Gorman Motors is looking for a new supplier for the electrical components of its trucks.

Materials Raw Materials Materials are the physical items that a supplier provides to other businesses.

These materials could be raw resources such as oil or manufactured parts such as computer chips.

The high cost of materials has slowed down the construction sector in the last few years.

Manufacturer Manufacturer A manufacturer uses machines, tools, and labor to transform materials into goods.

The goods might be for use by consumers or as parts of a more complex product.

Boeing is one of the largest manufacturers of airplanes in the world.

Distributor Distributor A distributor box buys products from manufacturers and then resells them to retailers.

A distributor is like a middleman between the producers and the consumers.

The Canadian Paper company found a European distributor for their specialty products.

Retailer Retailer A retailer is a business that sells products directly to customers or end users.

Traditional retailers are complaining about online retailers stealing their customers.

Consumer Consumer in economics, the consumer is the one who uses a good or service that has been produced.

Consumers are the final link in the supply chain.

After the economic crisis, consumers showed a lack of confidence by saving rather than spending.

Now it's your turn to practice some of the words we have studied.

In this episode, you'll hear a series of sentences with a word replaced with a beep.

Repeat the whole sentence, including the missing word.

For example, if you hear we offer free on orders to customers in North America, you can say we offer free shipping on orders to customers in North America.

We'll play the correct answer after each question.

Samsung is very successful because they understand preferences.

Samsung is very successful because they understand consumer preferences.

General Electric is one of the largest companies in the world.

General Electric is one of the largest manufacturing companies in the world.

Walmart is so successful that smaller find it hard to compete.

Walmart is so successful that smaller retailers find it hard to compete.

Large shipping companies such as TNT and FedEx provide a complete solution.

Large shipping companies such as TNT and FedEx provide a complete logistics solution.

That's all for this episode of Video Vocab.

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