all types of activities related to the purposeful impact on objects, systems in order to maintain their sustainability or transfer from one state to another in order to achieve certain goals;

organizational formation, functioning in the market in the system of productive forces and production relations, in which there is a direct union of labor with the means of production;

all activities related to the intentional transformation (transformation) of materials, information or customers;

planning, organization, control of all activities related to movement, warehousing, which ensure the passage of material flows