Understanding Safety Stock

Safety stock is setup in the Item Branch program (P41026). If you use fulfillment rules and an item does not have a safety stock quantity, you must set up a fulfillment rule with zero percent remaining safety stock. The system uses this zero percent rule when an order line cannot be fully filled based on the limiting factor, either item availability or fulfillment percent.

If you use fulfillment rules and subtract safety stock from the on-hand balance in the availability calculation, you must set up a fulfillment rule with zero percent remaining safety stock. When you subtract safety stock in the availability calculation, the system does not hold the additional quantity from being filled to order lines.

If the system does not find an appropriate fulfillment rule during the run of the Auto Fulfillment Processing report, no inventory is filled to the sales order line.