How much safety stock is right?
It follows from your target service level and the variability of demand and lead time. The judgment is in choosing the service level, because moving from 95% to 99% costs considerably more inventory. Assignments usually want that trade-off discussed.
This comes up on Operations and Supply Chain, where it is answered in the context of the work itself.
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