| Subject | English | French |
| comp., MS | fixed material consumption | consommation fixe de matériaux (Absolute quantity of a material resource to be used to complete an assignment. A fixed consumption rate indicates that the amount of material used will be constant, regardless of changes to task duration or assignment length) |
| market. | material consumption | consommation de matières |
| nat.res. | material consumption | consommation de matériaux |
| construct. | material consumption capacity | taux de consommation de ressources matérielles |
| construct. | material consumption index | indice de consommation des matériaux |
| environ. | raw material consumption The developed countries depend on a stable supply of raw materials for their industries. Total resource requirements are increasing rapidly over the entire world. In developed countries, although population is increasing slowly, per capita use is increasing rapidly, while the opposite is happening in developing countries. Traditionally raw materials have been classified as non-renewable resources, but a distinction may be important between "loosable" resources, such as oil and coal, and "non-loosable" resources, such as metals, which can be used several times over by recycling processes | consommation de matières premières |
| comp., MS | variable material consumption | consommation variable de matériel (The time-based quantity of material resource to be used in an assignment. A variable consumption indicates that the amount of material that is used changes if the task duration or assignment length changes) |