vendor

thumb|A Bengalis|Bengali fish vendor from [[Sylhet]] thumb|Memorial to a Kraków vendor,Szczepański Square, [[Kraków, Poland]] thumb|Vendor In Balboa Park (San Diego)|Balboa Park, 2024 In a supply chain, a vendor, supplier, provider or a seller, is an enterprise that contributes goods or services. Generally, a supply chain vendor manufactures inventory/stock items and sells them to the next link in the chain. Today, these terms refer to a supplier of any goods or service. In property sales, the vendor is the name given to the seller of the property.

==Description== A vendor is a supply chain management term that means anyone who provides goods or services of experience to another entity. Vendors may sell B2B (business-to-business; i.e., to other companies), B2C (business to consumers or direct-to-consumer), or B2G (business to government). Some vendors manufacture inventoriable items and then sell those items to customers, while other vendors offer services or experiences. The term vendor and the term supplier are often used indifferently. One distinction which might be made is that the vendors sell the goods or services while the supplier provides the goods or services. In most business contexts, except retail, this difference has no impact and words are interchangeable.