Coffee, Tea, Roasting & Dry Goods Processing worked example

Shelf-Life Batch Risk with shelf-life quality impact severity of 4 score: a worked example

Suppose shelf-life quality impact severity falls to 4 score. This page works the full calculation at that level so you can see exactly which result moves and by how much. Score shelf-life risk for coffee, tea, or dry goods from quality impact, likelihood of degradation, and detection difficulty.

The inputs for this scenario

  • Shelf-life quality impact severity (1-10): 4 score (the input this scenario stresses; the baseline uses 8)
  • Staling, oxidation or moisture likelihood (1-10): 5 score (held at the documented default)
  • Pre-shipment detection difficulty (1-10): 4 score (held at the documented default)

Working through the calculation

  • The calculation starts from the formula this tool documents: Shelf-Life Batch Risk = weighted score of shelf-life quality impact severity, staling, oxidation, or moisture likelihood, and pre-shipment detection difficulty.
  • shelf-life batch risk works out to 4.35 score at these inputs, and this is the headline figure for the scenario.
  • shelf-life quality impact severity works out to 4 score at these inputs.
  • staling, oxidation, or moisture likelihood works out to 5 score at these inputs.
  • pre-shipment detection difficulty works out to 4 score at these inputs.

How this compares with the baseline

  • Against the tool's baseline example, where shelf-life quality impact severity sits at 8 score and the headline result is 5.95 score, this scenario comes in 26.89% below the baseline at 4.35 score.
  • It combines a 1-10 severity score, a likelihood score for staling, oxidation or moisture, and a detection-difficulty score into a single weighted batch-risk number. When the numbers land here, the stressed input is the lever to work; the walkthrough above shows exactly how much each output recovers as it climbs back toward the baseline.

Results at a glance

  • shelf-life batch risk: 4.35 score (headline result)
  • shelf-life quality impact severity: 4 score
  • staling, oxidation, or moisture likelihood: 5 score
  • pre-shipment detection difficulty: 4 score

Run it with your numbers

  • To rerun this with your own numbers, open the live Shelf-Life Batch Risk calculator, set shelf-life quality impact severity to your actual value, and adjust the remaining inputs to match your operation.

Last reviewed 2026-05-12.