Safety Stock

is used to balance out fluctuations in demand and replenishment. It is created to achieve a high degree of delivery readiness (delivery level). There are article-related and customer-related S. Minimizing S. with a high degree of readiness to deliver is one of the fundamental tasks of logistics optimization. Cf. service level of warehousing. Source: logipedia / Fraunhofer IML

engl. für Sicherheitsbestand Source: logipedia / Fraunhofer IML