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Safety Stock

Safety Stock is an inventory management concept referring to the additional quantity of an item held in stock beyond expected demand to mitigate the risk of stockouts caused by variability in demand or supply lead times.

378

Publications

19.5K

Citations

736

Authors

382

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

83

Variants

Buffer StockSafety Inventory

Parents

Publications

378

A Joint Location-Inventory Model

Zuo‐Jun Max Shen, Collette R. Coullard, Mark S. Daskin · Transportation Science · 2003 · 663 citations

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A Single-Item Inventory Model for a Nonstationary Demand Process

Stephen C. Graves · Manufacturing & Service Operations Management · 1999 · 454 citations · Full text

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Optimizing Strategic Safety Stock Placement in Supply Chains

Stephen C. Graves, Sean P. Willems · Manufacturing & Service Operations Management · 2000 · 419 citations

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MODELING THE EVOLUTION OF DEMAND FORECASTS ITH APPLICATION TO SAFETY STOCK ANALYSIS IN PRODUCTION/DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS

David C. Heath, P JACKSON · IIE Transactions · 1994 · 349 citations

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An Inventory Theoretic Model of Freight Transport Demand

William J. Baumöl, Hrishikesh D. Vinod · Management Science · 1970 · 327 citations

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Authors

736

  1. SP
    Sean P. Willems

    Boston University, United States

    12 publications · 953 citations

    12

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  2. SM
    Stefan Minner

    Technical University of Munich, Germany

    11 publications · 748 citations

    11

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  3. SC
    Stephen C. Graves

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States

    8 publications · 1.5K citations

    8

    h-index

  4. BS
    Biswajit Sarkar

    Yonsei University, South Korea

    6 publications · 356 citations

    6

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  5. TA
    Tarik Aouam

    Ghent University, Belgium

    5 publications · 87 citations

    5

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Institutions

382

  1. Boston University

    Boston, United States

    10 h-index

    11 publications

    623 citations

  2. Ghent University

    Ghent, Belgium

    9 h-index

    22 publications

    442 citations

  3. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Cambridge, United States

    8 h-index

    10 publications

    1.4K citations

  4. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    8 h-index

    8 publications

    548 citations

  5. Decision Sciences (United States)

    Fort Walton Beach, United States

    7 h-index

    13 publications

    470 citations

  6. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    6 h-index

    6 publications

    624 citations

  7. Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg

    Magdeburg, Germany

    6 h-index

    9 publications

    719 citations

  8. Dartmouth College

    Hanover, United States

    6 h-index

    8 publications

    749 citations

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Venues

  1. International Journal of Production Research

    47 publications · 2K citations

    26

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  2. Management Science

    28 publications · 3.3K citations

    24

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  3. International Journal of Production Economics

    24 publications · 1.3K citations

    21

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  4. European Journal of Operational Research

    16 publications · 678 citations

    12

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  5. Operations Research

    12 publications · 848 citations

    11

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