Stock out

Inventory management.

A 'stock out' is a situation in which levels of inventory (or stock) are insufficient to meet demand.

Stock outs can lead to delays, loss of revenue, additional costs and loss of goodwill.

Also written 'stock-out' or 'stockout'.

Also known as an 'outage'.

See also

• Economic order quantity
• Inventory
• Inventory management
• Just in time
• Outage
• Stock