• Manufacturer, uses tools and labor to make things for sale
• Processor (manufacturing)
  Process Manufacturing
  Process manufacturing is the branch of manufacturing that is associated with formulas and manufacturing recipes, and can be contrasted with discrete manufacturing, which is concerned with bills of material and routing....
  
  , converts a product from one form to another
• Packager (manufacturing), encloses products for distribution, storage, sale, and use
• Distributor (business), the middleman between the manufacturer and retailer
• Wholesaler, sells goods or merchandise to retailers
• Franchised dealership, local franchised distribution
  • Drug dealer, supplies illegal drugs
• Merchant
  Merchant
  A merchant is a businessperson who trades in commodities that were produced by others, in order to earn a profit.Merchants can be one of two types:# A wholesale merchant operates in the chain between producer and retail merchant...
  
  , a professional dealing with trade

See also

• Supply chain
  Supply chain
  A supply chain is a system of organizations, people, technology, activities, information and resources involved in moving a product or service from supplier to customer. Supply chain activities transform natural resources, raw materials and components into a finished product that is delivered to...
  
  
• Supply network
  Supply network
  A supply network is a pattern of temporal and spatial processes carried out at facility nodes and over distribution links, which adds value for customers through the manufacturing and delivery of products...
  
  
• Supply chain network
  Supply chain network
  Due to the rapid advancement of technology such as pervasive or ubiquitous wireless and internet networks, connective product marking technologies like RFID and emerging standards for the use of these defining specific locations using Global Location Number, the basic supply chain is rapidly...
  
  
• Supply (disambiguation)
• Vendor (supply chain)
  Vendor (supply chain)
  A vendor, or a supplier, is a supply chain management term meaning anyone who provides goods or services to a company. A vendor often manufactures inventoriable items, and sells those items to a customer.- History :...