Standard Safety Stock Planning 

Use

You use standard safety stock planning in Supply Network Planning (SNP) to build up safety stock for location products according to values that match past experience. You can define these values as time-independent in the location product master data or time-dependent in interactive SNP planning. When doing so, you can choose from six different safety stock methods with which you define the safety stock directly using the safety days’ supply or as a maximum of safety stock and safety days’ supply.

The values you have defined are then considered during heuristic or optimization-based SNP planning.

Prerequisites

·        You have defined the specific master data for standard safety stock planning. For more information see Master Data Setup for Safety Stock Planning.

·        If you wish to use safety stock methods MZ, MB, or MM, you have to use standard SNP planning area 9ASNP05 and standard planning book 9ASNP_SSP (or a planning area and planning book based on these) that contain the following key figures: 9ASAFETY – Safety Stock (Planned) and 9ASVTTY – Safety Days’ Supply.

Note that for safety stock method MM, the SNP optimizer only considers independent demands as well as dependent and distributed demands caused by fixed orders, since these demands and the demand locations are already known before the optimization run.

Activities

The safety stock values you defined are shown in interactive SNP planning and the system considers them during the SNP planning runs.

See Also

Extended Safety Stock Planning