Warehouse vocabulary

Doubt that's a good question (forgive pun). After a lifetime as a writer I can only refer you to

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It could be any number of job titles, including:


Central Supply Worker
Inventory Clerk
Stock Clerk
Storekeeper
Supply Clerk
Warehouse Worker
Shipping / Receiving / Traffic Clerk
Shipping & Receiving Lead
Inventory Control Clerk
Inventory Planner
Warehouseman
Warehouse Clerk
Warehouse Associate
Storeman
Stock Controller
Shipper/Receiver
Inventory Coordinator
Inventory Control Specialist
Receiving Clerk
Material Handler
Shipping and Receiving Clerk
Stocker
Warehouse Assistant
Inventory Controller
Bay Stocker
Storeroom Clerk

Wow But I'm impressed. How on earth did you compile that list

Did a Google search for a list of warehouse job titles and deleted those that didn't apply and added a few from my own work experience working in the purchasing dept long ago.

Wow But I'm even more impressed. But But sometimes don't you wonder why we spend so much time and energy addressing the perfect stranger at some remote location by means of an obscure website

In your case, Dale Dale, yes I do.

Guess left self wideopen for that'n didn't I

In my wild teenage days in a UK Warehouse, the stuff was unloaded in the "Goods In" Section, and the guy who checked it in was the Checker.

The poor buggers who had to physically unload the stuff were the "humpers".

I was a humper on numerous occasions. Totally different connotation nowadays.

Ship to Customers

Receive from Vendors

We used to have freelancers in major cities who unloaded trucks. The drivers called ahead on the radio (no cell phones or internet then), and the lumpers were there. Don't know what they do now, nor why they were lumpers instead of humpers.

The terms which i would use (and i've had many jobs where this applied) would be shipping clerk and receiving clerk. Neither one of these is necessarily a full-time occupation, but one of the titles an employee may have.

At a warehouse, the action of receiving goods is called what?

Warehousing

And the person who receives the goods is called what?

Warehouser