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
| Arabic | مخزون الأمان |
|---|---|
| French | Stock de sécurité |
| Turkish | Emniyet stoğu |
Learn it in the lesson
Adding lead time and safety stock to a material requirement plan
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