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Safety Stock and Minimum Safety Stock

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Dear Folks,

Can anybody advice me on what is the difference between safety stock and minimum safety stock in MRP?

Should both fields be setup if we are using reorder point planning?

Why do we need to setup safety stock if we already setup minimum safety stock?

Best Regards

Junwen

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Former Member
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Hi Junwen,

What is Safety Stock?

Safety stock as the name suggest is the stock level till which the dead stock or stock out situation will not arise (probable figure based on past data maintained in master).

As such this figure is not stock, it is cut-off figure maintained in master which is used for Planning and once the stock level dips below this value, you can configure system to generate PR, orders automatically. It has its relevance in MRP and CBP.

Safety Stock is the quantity of stock held to satisfy unexpectedly high requirements in the stocking-up period.

The purpose of the safety stock is to prevent a material shortage from occurring. In order to determine the safety stock level, you must first specify the risk of a material shortage and also the desired service level.

Usually the safety stock will not be used in production.

The purpose of the safety stock is to prevent a material shortage from occurring.

In order to determine the safety stock level, you must first specify the risk of a material shortage and also the desired service level.

The safety stock depends on the service level that you specified in the MRP 2 view of the material master record and on the accuracy of the forecast. The more accurate the forecast, the smaller your safety stock can be.

You can specify a minimum safety stock. If the result of the safety stock calculation is lower than this limit, the safety stock is then automatically set to this minimum value. You enter the minimum safety stock in the material master record ( MRP 2 screen ).

Reward if useful.

Thanks and Regards,

/N

Former Member
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Junwen,

Please refer to the following link:

[http://www.sap-img.com/materials/safety-stock-calculation-in-sap.htm|http://www.sap-img.com/materials/safety-stock-calculation-in-sap.htm]

There's a detailed discussion of the need for Minimum Stock Level (toward the middle of the webpage)

Mewan