- Distribution center: a special kind of warehouse designed to speed the flow of goods and avoid unnecessary storing costs
- EDI: an approach that puts information in a standardized format easily shared between different computer systems
- Just in time delivery: reliably getting products there just before the customer needs them
- physical distribution concept: all transporting storing, and product-handling activities of a business and a whole channel system should be coordinated as one system that seeks to minimize the cost of distribution for a given customer service level
- Private warehouses: storing facilities owned or leased by companies for their own use
- Public warehouses: independent storing facilities
- Total cost approach: involves evaluating each possible PD system and identifying all of the costs of each alternative