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Business Definition for: Order

  • an occasion when a broker is told to buy or sell something for an investor's own account
  • a contract made between a customer and a supplier for the supply of a variety of goods or services in a determined quantity and quality, at an agreed price, and for delivery at or by a specified time

Wiktionary Definition for: Order

  • Arrangement, disposition.
  • Good arrangement; opposite to chaos.
  • A command.
  • A request for some product or service.
  • A religious group.
  • taxonomy In taxonomy, the classification below class and above family.
  • cricket The sequence in which a side's batsmen bat; the batting order.
  • electronics a power of polynomial function in an electronic circuit's block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc.
  • chem a number of a chemical reaction
  • graphtheory a number of vertices in a graph
  • To set in (any) order (1).
  • To set in (a good) order (2).
  • To issue a command.
  • To request some product or service.

Additional Resources

Article on E.Order
This article is about the Greate Plains e.Order . e.Order means your customers can order when it’s convenient for THEM, wherever they are, because you’ll be open for business around the world, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. And you won’t have to add costly order desk staff....
Tags: Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Greate Plains e.Order, Customer
White papers
Global Enabled Supply Chain Map Series: Order Management
Every successful business has a lot riding on the next sales order. Speed, accuracy and the number of steps taken to fulfill an order all represent critical aspects of order management. Much of today's technology is limited only by the expertise of the person who controls it. The same can...
Tags: Supply Chain, Order Management
White papers 2001-09-01
E-Z-EM Receives Additional Order for RSDL from U.S. Department of Defense
$8 Million Order is the Largest Single Order for RSDL Received to Date
Tags: U.S. Department of Defense
Research articles 2007-08-06
THE MAIL-ORDER BUSINESS KNOW YOUR REWARDS AND YOUR RISKS!
The author of this article says that there is no "store- front" in a mail-order operation, advertising becomes essential to a successful start-up. A mail-order operation does not receive enough publicity and does not achieve name recognition until it is a large and successful operation therefore the only exposure linking...
Tags: Mail-order Business, Sales, Sales Channel, Mail-order
White papers 1997-01-01
Order brings order for mail order firm
As part of a five year contract with Experian, JD Williams, the mail order company, has implemented Experian's Probe SM, a behavioural decision analytics solution, to assist in both its scoring and customer management activity. The contract also covers the supply of credit reference information from Experian.
Tags: Experian, mail-order
Research articles 2006-11-01
Shipping Order
This template can be used to tell the shipping department to assemble and order and prepare it for shipment to a customer. Customers should receive a copy of the form since it informs them of important information, such as their order numbers.
Tags: Customer
Tools & templates 2007-09-01
Backorder Control
Use this template to track items that you have ordered but have not yet been delivered. Whenever you plan to place an order, check this report first to make sure you have not already placed such an order. Be sure to enter quantity on order and backorder as values so...
Tags: Order
Tools & templates 2007-09-01
EnXnet, Inc. Receives Another Order for Dual-Sided DVD/CD — Order Received by Corporate Disk of Chicago
TULSA, Okla. -- EnXnet, Inc. (OTCBB:EXNT) (German WKN# AOHMDW) is pleased to announce that marketing affiliate Corporate Disk out of Chicago received an order for the dual-sided DVD/CD. This is the second order EnXnet has received in just the past 10 days. This also marks the third order this calendar...
Tags: CD, disk, DVD
Research articles 2006-05-24
Order Form
This basic Order Form Template is used to obtain information necessary to fulfill a customer order.
Tags: Management, Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneur.com Inc.
Tools & templates 2006-08-17
Enterprise Resource Planning
This article focuses on Enterprise Resource Planning ERP and describes its benefits. ERP automates the tasks involved in performing a business process - such as order fulfillment, which involves taking an order from a customer, shipping it and billing for it. With ERP, when a customer service representative takes an...
Tags: Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), ERP, Software, Enterprise Software
White papers 2003-10-13
Sort Records In Custom Order
There may be times when you want to sort data, not by alphabetical or numerical order, but by user-defined order also called custom or logical order. For example, sorting weekdays so that Monday appears first makes more sense than sorting in alphabetical order, where Friday appears first. You can sort...
Tags: Order
White papers
Precise Biometrics Receives Order Worth Sek 2.3 Million
Precise Biometrics has received an order for hardware worth SEK 2.3 million in a Match-on-Card project. The order is a follow-up order from an existing customer in the Middle East and part of a larger order comprising both hardware and Precise Match-on-CardTM licenses.
Tags: hardware
Research articles 2008-05-22
Selling by Mail Order
This paper provides basic information on how to run a successful mail order business. It includes information on selecting, pricing, testing and writing effective advertisements for the products. For marketing wizards, a mail order business can be highly profitable. Mail order can be a profitable and interesting full- or part-time...
Tags: Sales, Sales Channel, Mail-order
White papers 2004-02-23
The rule of thumb: timely shipments - mail order marketing is governed by the Mail or Telephone Order Merchandise Rule of the Federal Trade Commission; other services of the FTC are discussed - Brief Article
We recently started a mail-order business offering inexpensive genera]. merchandise. While we were setting up the business, we heard about a new mail-order rule issued by the Federal Trade Commission. What are the general rules for a mall-order business? And where can we obtain copies of the regulations?
Tags: FTC, mail-order, marketing, phone
Research articles 1997-06-01
EADS Receives Order for Five HC-144A U.S. Coast Guard Maritime Patrol Aircraft
New order further expands the growing order book for EADS CASA CN-235/C-295 military transport aircraft family
Tags: aircraft, United States Coast Guard
Research articles 2007-05-08
MONEY-MAKING MAIL ORDER---Part 1
The author of this article says that Mail Order or Direct Marketing is an ideal business. It explains some advantages of mail order like you can start with little investment and low risk, can start in your spare time and build into full time, it can be used to expand...
Tags: Mail-order, Sales Channel, Sales
White papers 1997-01-01
i2 New-Generation Customer Order Management Suite Helps Companies Achieve New Levels of Excellence in Complex Order Management Environments
Designed to Help Companies Synchronize Their Sales and Supply Chain Organizations by Providing Continuously Optimized Execution of Order Processes
Tags: i2 Technologies Inc., order management
Research articles 2006-11-14
Rim Semiconductor Receives First Purchase Order
PORTLAND, Ore. -- Rim Semiconductor Company (OTCBB:RSMI) has received its first purchase order for $114,300 of its flagship Cupria[TM] transport processor. Extreme Copper, Inc. of Westlake Village, California, placed this purchase order under its previously announced three-year supply agreement with Rim Semi. The Company anticipates that the gross profit margin...
Tags: Company, Research In Motion Ltd., semiconductor
Research articles 2007-05-01
BAE Systems Wins Additional M777 Howitzer Order from the U.S. Armed Forces
HATTIESBURG, Miss. -- BAE Systems has received a new order from the U.S. Department of Defense for 87 additional M777A2 155mm towed howitzers, valued at $176 million. The order adds to the 589 M777A2 howitzers already on order for the U.S. armed forces, of which more than 300 have been...
Tags: BAE Systems Plc.
Research articles 2008-04-01
Borders Selects Sterling Order Management for New Borders.com E-commerce Site to Launch Early 2008
Sterling to Help Streamline Customer Order Fulfillment with Best-of-Breed Order Management
Tags: Borders Books & Music, e-business, order management, Sterling
Research articles 2007-05-08
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