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What is safety stock and safety lead time?

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Question added by Mohammad Tohamy Hussein Hussein , Chief Executive Officer & ERP Architect , Egyptian Software Group
Date Posted: 2014/06/16
gopikrishnan parthasarathy
by gopikrishnan parthasarathy , Purchase and supply chain engineer , Teja machinery

Safety Stock

 Safety stock is an additional quantity of an item held in  inventory in order to reduce the risk that the item will be out of stock. Safety stock acts as a buffer in case the sales of an item are greater than planned and/or the supplier is unable to deliver additional units at the expected time.

 

 Safety Lead Time

 safety lead time is a way to represent your safety stock as a number of days demand. Safety lead time can be beneficial when you want to “pad” your lead-time to compensate for supplier variability, transportation variability, or internal process variability.

Mohammad Tohamy Hussein Hussein
by Mohammad Tohamy Hussein Hussein , Chief Executive Officer & ERP Architect , Egyptian Software Group

Safety stock is a buffer of stock above and beyond that needed to satisfy the gross requirements.

 

Safety lead time is a procedure whereby shop orders or purchase orders are released and scheduled to arrive one or more periods before necessary to satisfy the gross requirements.

 

Safety stock can be incorporated into MRP time-phased records. The result is that the projected available balance doesn't fall below the safety stock level instead of reaching zero.

 

 

To incorporate safety lead time, orders are issued (planned) earlier and are scheduled (planned) to be received into inventory before the time that the MRP logic would indicate as necessary.

Mohammed Thiab
by Mohammed Thiab , Founder / Chief Consultant , MV Consulting

These are "buffers" used in supplu chain to ensure proper stock levels of necessary items in all situations and under any circumstances. 

 

The safety stock buffer is an additional quantity in numbers or percentages to be considered when ordering specific quantities of these items.  I really do NOT agree with sppecifying a certain number or percentage across the whole thing, because this varies per item, per industry and per specific of the situation. 

 

The safety lead time is a buffer to be considered in the time it takes from placing the purchase order till the time of delivery of the purchased items.    This buffer may cater for unknow/unpredictible variations in the supply chain and its associated logistics.     Again, I do not agree with the approach of assigning a fixed number or percentage for this safetly lead time buffer ... because ... again .. it varies from case to case !

 

You need to understand the supply chain model specifics in your own situation to be able to assign these buffers efficiently and effectively

 

 

 

Rami Mousa Abululi
by Rami Mousa Abululi , Cloud & Connectivity Sales Team Leader , Nour Communications - NourNET

30% from the carrently Qty

Jose Miguel Lucas Martins
by Jose Miguel Lucas Martins , IT Director - Robotic Process Automation (RPA) , Novo Banco

I agree with Mr. Mohammad Tohamy Hussein Hussein and Mr. Mohammad Iqbal Abubaker

Contigent level for emergencies and same for time which is critciality

yasir nisar
by yasir nisar , Internal Audit Officer , RCG Stores (The Clothing Gallery)

  1. Safety stock (also called buffer stock) is a term used by logisticians to describe a level of extra stock that is maintained to mitigate risk of stockouts (shortfall in raw material or packaging) due to uncertainties in supply and demand. lead time is the latency (delay) between the initiation and execution of a process. For example, the lead time between the placement of an order and delivery of a new car from a manufacture

Safety Stock is an excess material that is maintained to protect against demand uncertainty and to prevent stock out

Safety lead time is another buffer in MRP involves establishing:

1-    A planner order date that is ealier than when really needed

2-    A planned order release date that is offset by normal lead time.

Ajay Kumar Thallapalem
by Ajay Kumar Thallapalem , Assistant Manager-SCM , The Waterbase Ltd

Safety stock is the stock held by a company in excess of its requirement for the lead time. Companies hold safety stock to guard against stock-out.

Safety Stock = (Maximum Daily Usage − Average Daily Usage) × Lead Time

Lead time is the time which supplier takes in ordering the items

Sriram Devarajan
by Sriram Devarajan , Senior Planning Engineer , BHARAT HEAVY ELECTIRCALS LTD. (BHEL)

Safety Stock is nothing but the minimum stock that needs to be maintained. Safety Stock is nothing but  [Re order Level - (Normal Consumption of the resource x Normal re order period)]

Mohammed Altaha
by Mohammed Altaha , Contracts and Procurement Manager , Almajdouie Logistics

Safety stock is the level of inventory of Specific SKU where another order is being placed based on the forecast.

 

Safety lead time, is the time which started from the time an order is being placed until it's received and the stock available should cover this time.

 

for this reason when we do comparison between vendors we must consider not only the price, we should look at the lead time and quality.

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