Safety stock acts as a buffer to control a location’s inventory and reduce the risk of running out of stock. Although safety stock works on a location level, it aggregates up to the group level and can impact other locations in the group. A safety stock quantity that exceeds a location’s on-hand stock can limit the available stock across the network when it aggregates to the group. Prevent underselling by capping your safety stock to prevent it from exceeding on-hand counts.
Safety stock caps apply to existing inventory counts within the service and to future inventory updates. If you enable safety stock caps after importing your inventory, the location-level safety stock adjusts to the on-hand amount for each product at each location. Enabling safety stocks to an existing inventory is a resource-intensive process. We recommend enabling the feature only after you’ve considered all potential impacts of bulk-editing safety stock.
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at the top of the page, and then select Setup.
- In the Quick Find box, find and select Omnichannel Inventory.
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Enable Location Aggregation Safety Stock Cap.
Because of the resource-intensive nature of enabling safety stock caps, you can’t manually disable the feature after you’ve enabled it. To disable safety stock caps, contact Salesforce Customer Support.