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	<description>Using Correct, Comprehensive Safety Stock Levels to Achieve Improved Service Levels and Financial Performance</description>
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		<title>How Often Do You Measure Your Actual Service-Level Performance?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 20:16:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Factors Affecting Safety Stock]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[SErvice Levels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Back Order]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you measure your actual service-level performance (ASL) for each month? Each quarter? Each year? Of course, there is no single “right answer” to this question. However, the ASL time frame for your business must find the right balance of &#8230; <a href="http://topdownleansystems.com/wordpress/how-often-do-you-measure-your-actual-service-level-performance/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Lead Time and Replenishment Interval (RI) Limit Minimum Confidence</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 19:33:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Expediting]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[To make sense of this statement, let’s recall the earlier, intuitive situation in which a very large replenishment interval, or RI (and correspondingly large MOQ) results in virtually 100% confidence, requiring practically no expediting to achieve or even exceed the &#8230; <a href="http://topdownleansystems.com/wordpress/lead-time-and-replenishment-interval-ri-limit-minimum-confidence/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Confidence, Demand Variation and Expediting</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 00:04:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Expediting]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The relationships between safety-stock level, confidence of achieving the desired service level without expediting and MOQ hold true, but are less intuitive, as MOQ and its resulting replenishment interval (RI) become smaller. We’ll illustrate these relationships with a simplified, hypothetical &#8230; <a href="http://topdownleansystems.com/wordpress/confidence-demand-variation-and-expediting/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Quantifying Expediting in Terms of Confidence</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 15:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Expediting]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first and most obvious dimension of safety stock is service level – in other words, the safety-stock level is determined statistically to achieve a target fill rate. However, a correctly-determined, statistically-based safety-stock level is not simply a value, but &#8230; <a href="http://topdownleansystems.com/wordpress/quantifying-expediting-in-terms-of-confidence/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Quantifying the Costs of Incremental Service Level</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 14:10:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Factors Affecting Safety Stock]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Quantifying the costs of incremental service level can present a challenge. For instance: How much more safety stock would you need in order to increase your fill-rate performance by 1 point – say, from 97% to 98%? What would &#8230; <a href="http://topdownleansystems.com/wordpress/quantifying-the-costs-of-incremental-service-level/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Statistical Confidence in Safety-Stock Levels</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2012 16:53:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[comprehensive safety stock]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[optimal margin]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a properly structured and comprehensive safety-stock model, expediting, which relates to a statistical factor called “confidence” – is neither subjective nor unpredictable. Because confidence is a statistical factor, the level of common-cause expediting is quantifiable. Confidence is integral to &#8230; <a href="http://topdownleansystems.com/wordpress/statistical-confidence-in-safety-stock-levels/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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