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Why Safety Stock Is So Important to Your Supply Chain

Demand Solutions

Of all the factors that can impact available stock levels, forecast accuracy is the most decisive factor in predicting if you'll be able to satisfy demand. That's where safety stock comes in. How can you make sure your most important customers always get the key items they need? By holding safety stock!

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Safety Stock for Raw Materials – A view from the trenches and importance of community intelligence

Arkieva

A common question is how to best manage safety stock for critical raw materials that are critical to the production of the exit product. Safety Stock for Raw Materials – A view from the trenches and importance of community intelligence was first posted on March 10, 2020 at 9:20 am.

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A Journey Through Safety Stocks, Part 4

Arkieva

This blog covers the importance of lead and cycle times when calculating safety stock and other things to consider. A Journey Through Safety Stocks, Part 4 was first posted on December 14, 2022 at 8:17 am.

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A Journey Through Safety Stocks, Part 2

Arkieva

This blog discusses the importance of adjusting and refining safety stock approaches to balance inventory. A Journey Through Safety Stocks, Part 2 was first posted on November 30, 2022 at 8:08 am. If you are not reading this article in your feed reader, then the site is guilty of copyright infringement.

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Embracing the Supply Chain as A Complex Non-linear System

Supply Chain Shaman

We are currently working with the statistics group at Georgia Tech to understand how the relationship of these metrics changed over time, but more on that in a later blog.) The sizes of buffers and other stabilizing stocks relative to their flows. The supply chain has two important buffers–inventory and capacity.

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Inventory Management vs. Inventory Optimization: What’s Wrong with ABC Inventory Classification?

ToolsGroup

Nearly all traditional inventory management applications calculate safety stock for each individual SKU-Location combination. In the example above, if we have 10,000 items in stock, then 5,400 in the CC class will be assigned the same service level target. Let us think about this for a moment. The answer is that we don’t know.

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Boosting Efficiency: Top 5 Inventory Optimization Strategies

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In this blog, we’ll explore some key inventory optimization strategies that can benefit businesses of all sizes and industries. Suppliers monitor stock levels and replenish inventory automatically, based on agreed-upon criteria such as sales data or predefined inventory levels.