The extraction of information on the number of shipments, how much was included in each shipment, the date each shipment was sent, and so on from the manufacturing plant's database exemplifies
Based on the information provided within the question it can be said that the term that is being exemplified in this scenario is called a data query. This term refers to a request that is sent to the database in order to retrieve from said database the information that is being requested. The information is then returned as standard text or sometimes pictorials/graphs, depending on the chosen method.
