The Language of Global Sourcing – Glossary

Product sourcing today is highly complex, involving multiple regions, job functions and links across the global supply chain. As with many industries there is a lot of specific language and jargon involved.

For experienced insiders in the industry this information may be second nature, but for people new or unfamiliar with global sourcing, it might feel like they need a crash course in a new language. CBX deals with this language every day in our daily process of supporting the largest retailers to simplify and automate their global sourcing.

As such we felt it would be useful to compile a long list of The Language of Global Sourcing.