sales campaign | an advertising campaign intended to promote sales |
management control | an internal control performed by one or more managers |
distribution | the act of distributing or spreading or apportioning |
distribution | the commercial activity of transporting and selling goods from a producer to a consumer |
distribution channel channel | a way of selling a company's product either directly or via distributors, possible distribution channels are wholesalers or small retailers or retail chains or direct mailers or your own stores |
sale cutate sale sales event | an occasion (usually brief) for buying at specially reduced prices, they held a sale to reduce their inventory, I got some great bargains at their annual sale |
management direction | the act of managing something, he was given overall management of the program, is the direction of the economy a function of government? |
database management | creation and maintenance of a database |
line management | administration of the activities contributing directly to an organization's output |
sales resistance | resistance by potential customers to aggressive selling practices |
mercantile establishment retail store sales outlet outlet | a place of business for retailing goods |
stall stand sales booth | a booth where articles are displayed for sale |
distribution dispersion | the spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume, worldwide in distribution, the distribution of nerve fibers, in complementary distribution |
complementary distribution complementation | (linguistics) a distribution of related speech sounds or forms in such a way that they only appear in different contexts |
distribution statistical distribution | (statistics) an arrangement of values of a variable showing their observed or theoretical frequency of occurrence |
distribution law | (chemistry) the total energy in an assembly of molecules is not distributed equally but is distributed around an average value according to a statistical distribution |
Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution law Boltzmann distribution law | (physics) a law expressing the distribution of energy among the molecules of a gas in thermal equilibrium |
nonparametric statistic distribution free statistic | a statistic computed without knowledge of the form or the parameters of the distribution from which observations are drawn |
frequency distribution | a distribution of observed frequencies of occurrence of the values of a variable |
normal distribution Gaussian distribution | a theoretical distribution with finite mean and variance |
Poisson distribution | a theoretical distribution that is a good approximation to the binomial distribution when the probability is small and the number of trials is large |
sample distribution sample sampling | items selected at random from a population and used to test hypotheses about the population |
binomial distribution Bernoulli distribution | a theoretical distribution of the number of successes in a finite set of independent trials with a constant probability of success |
industrial engineering industrial management | the branch of engineering that deals with the creation and management of systems that integrate people and materials and energy in productive ways |
distribution list | list of names to whom a communication should be sent |
distribution agreement | a contract governing the marketing of an item of merchandise |
sale sales agreement | an agreement (or contract) in which property is transferred from the seller (vendor) to the buyer (vendee) for a fixed price in money (paid or agreed to be paid by the buyer), the salesman faxed the sales agreement to his home office |
database management system DBMS | a software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database |
relational database management system | a database management system designed to manage a relational database |
object-oriented database management system | a database management system designed to manage an object-oriented database |
sales talk sales pitch pitch | promotion by means of an argument and demonstration |
sales promotion | promotion that supplements or coordinates advertising |
management consulting | a service industry that provides advice to those in charge of running a business |
sales department sales division sales force | the division of a business that is responsible for selling products or services |
Federal Emergency Management Agency FEMA | an independent agency of the United States government that provides a single point of accountability for all federal emergency preparedness and mitigation and response activities |
Office of Management and Budget OMB | the executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget |
Financial Management Service | the federal agency in the Treasury Department that manages the government's disbursement and collection systems and provides central accounting and financial reporting |
sales staff | those in a business who are responsible for sales |
management | those in charge of running a business |
sales finance company | a finance company that buys (at a discount) the installment sales contracts of retail merchants |
management personnel | personnel having overall planning and direction responsibilities |
demonstrator sales demonstrator | someone who demonstrates an article to a prospective buyer |
management consultant | adviser to business about efficient management practices |
salesperson sales representative sales rep | a person employed to represent a business and to sell its merchandise (as to customers in a store or to customers who are visited) |
gross sales gross revenue sales | income (at invoice values) received for goods and services over some given period of time |
net sales | gross sales reduced by customer discounts, returns, freight out, and allowances |
sales incentive | remuneration offered to a salesperson for exceeding some predetermined sales goal |
distribution cost | any cost incurred by a producer or wholesaler or retailer or distributor (as for advertising and shipping etc) |
sales tax nuisance tax | a tax based on the cost of the item purchased and collected directly from the buyer |