Inventory vs. Merchandise — What's the Difference?

Inventory (American English) or stock (British English) refers to the goods and materials that a business holds for the ultimate goal of resale, production or utilisation.Inventory management is a discipline primarily about specifying the shape and placement of stocked goods. It is required at different locations within a facility or within many locations of a supply network to precede the regular and planned course of production and stock of materials.

Goods bought and sold in business; commercial wares.

A detailed, itemized list, report, or record of things in one's possession, especially a periodic survey of all goods and materials in stock.

To buy and sell (goods).

The process of making such a list, report, or record.

To promote the sale of, as by advertising or display

The items listed in such a report or record.

To buy and sell goods; trade commercially.

The quantity of goods and materials on hand; stock.

(uncountable) Goods which are or were offered or intended for sale.

An evaluation or a survey, as of abilities, assets, or resources.

(uncountable) Commercial goods connected (branded) with an entity such as a team, band, company, charity, work of fiction, festival, or meme. merch.}}

To make an itemized report or record of.

A commodity offered for sale; an article of commerce; a kind of merchandise.

To include in an itemized report or record.

The act or business of trading; trade; traffic.

(operations) The stock of an item on hand at a particular location or business.

To engage in trade; to carry on commerce.

(operations) A detailed list of all of the items on hand.

(intransitive) To engage in in-store promotion of the sale of goods, as by display and arrangement of goods.

(operations) The process of producing or updating such a list.

To engage in the trade of.

A space containing the items available to a character, especially that in a video game, for immediate use.

(transitive) To engage in in-store promotion of the sale of.

The total set of a specified linguistic feature within a language etc.

(transitive) To promote as if for sale.

To take stock of the resources or items on hand; to produce an inventory.

The objects of commerce; whatever is usually bought or sold in trade, or market, or by merchants; wares; goods; commodities.

An account, catalogue, or schedule, made by an executor or administrator, of all the goods and chattels, and sometimes of the real estate, of a deceased person; a list of the property of which a person or estate is found to be possessed; hence, an itemized list of goods or valuables, with their estimated worth.

The act or business of trading; trade; traffic.

The objects contained on an inventory{1};

To trade; to carry on commerce.

The total value of all goods in an inventory{2}.

To make merchandise of; to buy and sell.

The act of making an inventory{1}.

Commodities offered for sale;

To make an inventory of; to make a list, catalogue, or schedule of; to insert or register in an account of goods; as, a merchant inventories his stock.

Engage in the trade of;

A detailed list of all the items in stock

The merchandise that a shop has on hand;

(accounting) the value of a firm's current assets including raw materials and work in progress and finished goods

A collection of resources;

Making an itemized list of merchandise or supplies on hand;

Make or include in an itemized record or report;