| Category | Detail | Code |
| Objectives of models | Total cost | C |
| Cost of Quality | CoQ | |
| Profit | Pr | |
| Robustness | Ro | |
| Delivery period | Dp | |
| Financial risk | Fr | |
| Responsiveness (service level) | Re | |
| Decisions of models | Location/allocation | La |
| Demand satisfaction | Ds | |
| Transportation values | Tv | |
| Ratio Defect | Rd | |
| Inspection error rate | Ir | |
| Quantity | Q | |
| Facility Capacity | Fc | |
| Number of periods | T | |
| Number of suppliers | J | |
| Features of models | Period |
|
| Multi-period | MP | |
| Single-period | SP | |
| Product |
| |
| Multi-product | MPr | |
| Single-product | SPr | |
| Parameters |
| |
| Deterministic | D | |
| Stochastic | S |