APO and minimum safty stock

Hello,
in R/3 we maintain for some products the minimum safty stock field.
Is it within the standrd possible to get this field over to APO. I saw there a field min safty stock but it's still empty.
kind regards,
Bernhard

Hi Bernard,
This field is used as a check criterion for the safety stock value to be maintained in the material master. If the safety stock maintained is lower than this value, then it updates the safety stock to this value in material master. As safety stock is transferred to APO as SB method then this minimum safety stock value ensures that atleast this value is taken into consideration during planning.
Let me know if it helps.
Regards
Gaurav

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As soon as the stock goes down from the safety stock a mail should be triggered.
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Safty stock calculation

Dear all,
I have a querry regrding the Safty stock calculation.
I want system to consider the customer to whom I am issueing the material while calculating the safty stock.
to be precise I dont want to consider the consuption made towards whole sale dealers and want to consider only service customer consumption.
But as long as forecasting is concern I need to consider all the consuptions.
this is required to keep my safety stock qty as low as possible.
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Edited by: Donsandy on Jan 12, 2009 4:16 PM

Hi,
This is not possible using auto-safety stock calculation, as the calculation is based on all consumptions not just customer specific data.
Safety stock is based on 4 factors that could affect the idealistic procurement pattern:
1. Ordering Lead-time.
2. Manufacuring Lead-time
3. Transporting Lead-time
4. Stock conversion Lead-time (or Quality Inspection lead time)
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This relationship between forecast accuracy and service level is denoted by factor R. This also takes into account that the customer demand cannot be always satisfied 100% of the time.
Hence what we have is:
R = Relationship between forecast accuracy and service level (Service Factor)
W = Delivery time (in days) / Forecast Period (in days)
MAD = Mean absolute deviation (parameter for forecast accuracy)
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Here my client required to keep his stock in the form of Minimum & maximum stock for Material.
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We are in the process of implementing SOX controls for the new APO and BI Systems
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I am a puzzled that you would ask such a question.
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Safty stock

can any one tell how to make use of Safty stock for delivery creation for customer. as some times we don't have the req. quty open for delivery/ stock tranfer.
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we can do it by making the avalibility check KP in MRP 3 tab of material master. then create the sales order.
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