I’m blanking on a word to use (in a resume).
If I sell a product to, say, a grocery store, I’m a vendor. What is the grocery store? A client? That doesn’t seem right.
I’m trying to complete the sentence fragments:
“print, package, and deliver product to [insert word here]”
“maintain inventory at [insert word here] sites”
. . . or something like that. Customer/client doesn’t seem right, as I want to get across the point that the customers are businesses and not individuals.
Thanks!
Client or customer, yes. Those terms are applicable to organization as well as to private individuals.
Purchaser?
That’s someone in charge of purchasing, usually; I’ve found it in companies/locations large enough to have a Purchasing Manager with several Purchaser underlings.
And it may even be that the purchasing organization isn’t even the one to which goods or services are being delivered (third-party procurement) - one of the fun parts of setting up Purchasing systems is the whole list of “Send-to Clients”, “Bill-to Clients” and so forth.
Customer and client both describe businesses as well as individuals. Maybe you want to get the phrase B2B in there somewhere?
If you’re not happy with customer/client, are they in a particular industry that you can describe? e.g. print, package, and deliver product to pharma companies
“Retailer”, then? Or “reseller” if they’re not dealing with the general public…
Service delivery consultant here, yes “customer” is the industry-standard term in IT service roles.
Not a client. “Client” implies a professional service is being provided. Businesses try to satisfy all of their customers’ demands within the constraints of economics and the law, while there are certain legal and lucrative things you are not supposed to do for a client.
Distributor?
As an ad agency, we design, print and deliver product to clients. Which are all businesses. Oscar Mayer is our client, Target is our client, [Large Insurance Company] is our client, [Small Software Company] is our client.
you can call them “corporate customers” or “business partner”.
Whatever word you use, you aren’t going to get or not get a job because of it. Unless maybe you use a word like “jerkfaces”.