Sunday, 28 April 2024, 6:11 PM
Site: Bcom International Supply Chain Management
Course: Bcom International Supply Chain Management (IMM)
Glossary: SCS Glossary
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Effectiveness

The degree to which something is successful in producing a desired result; success.

Efficiency

Efficiency is the ability to avoid wasting materials, energy, efforts, money, and time in doing something or in producing a desired result. In a more general sense, it is the ability to do things well, successfully, and without waste.

Elastic Demand

Elastic demand exists when the change in quantity is larger than the change in price.

Elasticity

Elasticity is a measure of responsiveness or sensitivity to a dependent variable when an independent variable changes.

Elasticity Coefficient

Elasticity coefficient is the ratio of the percentage change in quantity demanded to the percentage change in the price of that product.

Employee Engagement Cycle

The employee life cycle model (ELC) is an organizational method used to visualize how an employee engages with the company they are a part of. There are six stages involved in this model: Attraction, Recruitment, Onboarding, Development, Retention, and Separation.

Engineer to Order (ETO)

Manufacturing process where product is built as per customer specifica-tion due to requiring unique engineering, design, customisation etc. 

Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship refers to the skill that people who open and own a business possess. The act of opening a business.

EOQ

EOQ – Optimal order level that keeps the costs associated with inventory at their lowest level.

Equal Advantage

Exists where a country can produce a good or ser-vice with the same opportunity costs than another country, i.e. their pro-duction ratios are the same. Countries with equal advantage will not trade.