Coatings, Inks & Specialty Chemical Production worked example

Raw Material Shelf Life Risk with shelf-life failure impact severity of 20 score: a worked example

This scenario runs the raw material shelf life risk calculation on the strong side: shelf-life failure impact severity of 20 score, with every other input held at its documented default. prioritizing raw materials that need rotation, retest, disposal, or purchasing controls

The inputs for this scenario

  • Shelf-life failure impact severity: 20 score (raised for this scenario; the documented default is 8)
  • Expiry or degradation likelihood: 5 score (unchanged)
  • Pre-use detection difficulty: 4 score (unchanged)

Working through the calculation

  • Applying the documented formula (Raw Material Shelf Life Risk = shelf-life impact severity × expiry or degradation likelihood × pre-use detection difficulty) to the inputs above produces each figure below.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 10.75 score for raw material shelf life risk, the number this scenario is built around.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 20 score for shelf-life impact severity.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 5 score for expiry or degradation likelihood.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 4 score for pre-use detection difficulty.

How this compares with the baseline

  • Against the tool's baseline example, where shelf-life failure impact severity sits at 8 score and the headline result is 5.95 score, this scenario comes in 80.67% above the baseline at 10.75 score.
  • Use it when ranking raw materials for retest frequency, FEFO rotation rules, storage upgrades or supplier shelf-life agreements across a chemical or coatings store. Treat this as a target state: the delta against the baseline quantifies what the improvement is worth before you commit to chasing it.

Results at a glance

  • raw material shelf life risk: 10.75 score (headline result)
  • shelf-life impact severity: 20 score
  • expiry or degradation likelihood: 5 score
  • pre-use detection difficulty: 4 score

Run it with your numbers

  • Every input above is editable in the live Raw Material Shelf Life Risk calculator, which recalculates instantly and can be shared with the inputs intact.

Last reviewed 2026-05-12.