Supplier

Supplier may refer to:

Manufacturer, uses tools and labour to make things for sale
Processor (manufacturing), 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, a professional dealing with trade

See also

Supply chain
Supply network 
Supply chain network
Supply (disambiguation)
Vendor (supply chain)processes, the residuum or other asphaltic material is circulated through a furnace for heating to coking temperature and then delivered to the coke drum where a coke product as well as the more useful products form from the thermal cracking of the heated heavy hydrocarbons. The overhead of the coke drum is quenched and circulated to a combination or fractionating tower for separation of the overhead into gas, gas oil, fuel oil, naphtha and the like. When the coke drum is filled with coke, a mechanical process of removing the coke from the coke drum is begun. Generally during the process of removing the coke from the coke drum, the circulation of the heated heavy hydrocarbon is switched to a second coke drum which fills with coke as