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Glossary

What is Safety stock?

An extra quantity of material planned on top of the bare requirement, to cover ordinary variation in a supplier's own delivery or a mill's own production run without stopping the cutting room.

This term in other languages

Arabicمخزون الأمان
FrenchStock de sécurité
TurkishEmniyet stoğu

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Adding lead time and safety stock to a material requirement plan

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