Patent ID: 7840454

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for calculating a protected safety stock quantity for several warehouses within an availability check during a delivery process of goods, whereby the protected safety stock quantity is representative of a quantity of products which is protected by the availability check, wherein a safety stock indicator indicating whether or not a calculation of the protected safety stock quantity has to be performed is checked, a safety stock parameter indicating how a calculation of the protected safety stock quantity has to be performed is checked, the safety stock quantity being a combination of at least a predetermined safety stock quantity, a percentage of the predetermined safety stock quantity, an expected demand quantity and a percentage of the expected demand quantity, the percentage of the predetermined safety stock quantity and the percentage of the expected demand quantity being dependent on a predetermined number of configurable characteristic values, the percentage of the predetermined safety stock quantity and the percentage of the expected demand quantity being time-dependent, and wherein the protected safety stock quantity is calculated by a computer system within the availability check using the predetermined safety stock quantity, the percentage of the predetermined safety stock quantity, the expected demand quantity and the percentage of the expected demand quantity for the respective delivery process of goods.