Amazon Glossary

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WBR - Weekly Business Review

A Weekly Business Review (WBR) is a recurring Amazon meeting format where teams review key performance metrics, operational progress, and strategic priorities on a weekly basis to ensure alignment and fast decision-making.

The WCO sets global customs standards including the Harmonized System, which determines duty rates and import rules for every Amazon seller sourcing internationally.

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WHS - Warehouse Health and Safety

Warehouse Health and Safety (WHS) refers to the standards, policies, and practices Amazon enforces in its fulfilment centres (FCs), sortation centres (SCs), and delivery stations (DSs) to protect employees, contractors, and visitors from workplace hazards and to ensure safe, compliant warehouse operations.

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WOC - Weeks of Cover

Weeks of Cover (WOC) is an Amazon inventory metric that indicates how many weeks of customer demand can be fulfilled with the current stock on hand for a given product, assuming average sales rates remain constant.

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WoW - Week over Week

Week over Week (WoW) is a comparison metric that measures the change in performance (e.g., sales, traffic, conversion, or other KPIs) from one week to the next.