Balancing Customer Service and Working Capital has never been more important. Our mission is to provide affordable processes for calculating the Safety Stock levels for your products which achieve the best balance. We have over 30 years experience of planning across a wide range of industries. Our software can be applied in any business to set general safety stock rules or calculate safety stocks for specific products. It can be a valuable way to fact check your existing safety stock settings. Read more on the benefits of optimal safety stock and how it should be calculated.

Get our cloud app SafetyStock ExpreSS to calculate the right levels of Safety Stock for your business. It will help you to sanity check existing safety levels and to identify groups of products or materials which need increased safety stocks to give the customer service you require or which have the potential for reduction of unnecessary inventory . Full details...

To support your safety stock review process get SafetyStock ProfeSSional which helps you to calculate and review performance measures (demand accuracy, supplier reliability and service level), categorize your products/ materials and calculate safety stock levels for each. Resulting inventory can be reviewed ensuring that levels are approved before you apply them to drive planning in your ERP system. The app makes the KPIs for inventory optimization visible allowing you to react quickly to changes in performance. Full details...

Just like many other business targets inventory optimization will give the best results if a good process is executed regularly. For our recommendation on best practice see our process page.

Good demand and supply planning practice are necessary for inventory optimization and, ideally, there should be regular Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) cross functional discussions to ensure goal alignment across your business. Develop the supply planning skills of your team with MRP Practitioner to ensure your inventory policy is translated into action through best use of MRP. Product page...