You can create the safety stock at network level that defines the amount of safety stock
to withhold either as fixed number or as percentage of available inventory across all the nodes
within the network.
Procedure
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Log in to Order Hub.
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Click Inventory (
) and select Safety stock rules.
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Click Create rule.
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Select Network-level or Node-level
aggregate.
- Network-level settings
- Select the safety stock definition as % of available inventory or
Fixed value.
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- % of available inventory
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- Enter the value of percentage of available inventory.
- Select Round-down or Round-up.
Enter the Minimum or Maximum value of the percentage of available
inventory.
- Fixed value
- Enter the value in number for inventory availability.
- Node-level aggregate
- The node-level aggregate option allows you to set the single safety stock value for the network
by aggregating the safety stock values from all the individual node-level safety stock rules.

If
Node type override is enabled, you can set the
single safety stock value for the network as an aggregated total of all the safety stock values for
all the nodes in the network. You can define the safety stock amount for each node type as a fixed
number or percentage of available inventory across all the nodes within the network that matches the
associated node type.
Note: If you select this Node type override option, it
overrides the safety stock values for each node type.
- Toggle On or Off button for
DC, Store, and Vendor.
- Refer to Step 4.
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Select the Schedule as Unrestricted or
Specific dates.
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Select Create to create a network rule with safety stock setting.
Results
After the rule is created, you can filter the rule as per the
Conditions, Safety stock allocation, Safety
stock type, and Effective from.