2007 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Economic Order Quantity and Safety Stock
Published in: Service Parts Planning with mySAP SCM™
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Most of the service parts — especially in the automotive and the engineering industry — have an immediate demand, i.e. the service part has to be available on stock. Since the forecast is always just an estimation of the future demand, it is necessary to compensate the deviations from the real demand (and the irregularities of the supply) by safety stock.