Fulfilment is the picking, packing and sending of an order. A fulfilment centre, fulfilment costs, outsource fulfilment.
It is the unglamorous half of online retail and the half that decides whether customers return, since a late or wrong parcel undoes everything the shopfront did. A fulfilment centre is a warehouse organised around picking speed. Note the American spelling fulfillment with two l's; and the other sense, of satisfaction.
1nounfulfilmentThe picking, packing and sending of an order.
“The online shop uses a large warehouse to handle order fulfilment.”
fulfilment is a logistics function.
Also accepted in games: fulfillment
Fulfil plus -ment, from Old English fullfyllan, full plus fill. The British spelling keeps one l.
Old English
fullfyllan
Middle English
fulfillen
English, today
fulfilment
From Middle English fulfillen, from Old English fullfyllan, from full + fyllan. Equivalent to fulfill + ment.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA