Aerospace & Defense Manufacturing worked example

Aerospace Supplier Risk Score with program impact severity of 23 1-10: a worked example

Push program impact severity up to 23 1-10 and the picture changes. This example computes every intermediate figure at that operating point. a supplier quality or procurement lead needs to rank supplier risk for flight hardware, materials, or special processes

The inputs for this scenario

  • Program impact severity: 23 1-10 (raised for this scenario; the documented default is 9)
  • Supplier disruption likelihood: 6 1-10 (unchanged)
  • Detection or recovery difficulty: 7 1-10 (unchanged)

Working through the calculation

  • Applying the documented formula (Aerospace supplier risk score = severity score × likelihood score × detection difficulty score) to the inputs above produces each figure below.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 13.05 score for aerospace supplier risk score, the number this scenario is built around.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 23 1-10 for program impact severity.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 6 1-10 for supplier disruption likelihood.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 7 1-10 for detection or recovery difficulty.

How this compares with the baseline

  • Against the tool's baseline example, where program impact severity sits at 9 1-10 and the headline result is 7.45 score, this scenario comes in 75.17% above the baseline at 13.05 score.
  • It computes a multiplicative risk priority score from program impact severity, supplier disruption likelihood, and detection or recovery difficulty. The value of this scenario is the size of the gap it exposes: that gap, priced out over a year, is the budget you can justify spending to close it.

Results at a glance

  • Aerospace supplier risk score: 13.05 score (headline result)
  • Program impact severity: 23 1-10
  • Supplier disruption likelihood: 6 1-10
  • Detection or recovery difficulty: 7 1-10

Run it with your numbers

  • Every input above is editable in the live Aerospace Supplier Risk Score calculator, which recalculates instantly and can be shared with the inputs intact.

Last reviewed 2026-05-12.