In contrast to buffer stock strategy (the principle of holding buffers), sizing is the concrete mathematical process: planners calculate precisely how much safety stock is needed and where it should be positioned across the supply chain—centralized in a hub or distributed across regional nodes.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety_stock
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