Cold Chain & Temperature-Controlled Operations worked example

Excursion Investigation Workload at 40% qa escalation and documentation allowance: a worked example

Push qa escalation and documentation allowance up to 40% and the picture changes. This example computes every intermediate figure at that operating point. planning labor for temperature excursion investigations and QA disposition

The inputs for this scenario

  • Excursion records, lots, or shipments to investigate: 18 investigations (unchanged)
  • Excursion investigations completed per hour: 2.5 investigations / hr (unchanged)
  • QA escalation and documentation allowance: 40 % (raised for this scenario; the documented default is 35)

Working through the calculation

  • Applying the documented formula (Base excursion investigation workload = excursion records, lots, or shipments to investigate รท excursion investigations completed per hour) to the inputs above produces each figure below.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 10.08 hr for estimated excursion investigation workload, the number this scenario is built around.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 7.2 hr for base excursion investigation workload.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 40 % for qa escalation and documentation allowance.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 2.5 investigations / hr for excursion investigations completed per hour.

How this compares with the baseline

  • Against the tool's baseline example, where qa escalation and documentation allowance sits at 35% and the headline result is 9.72 hr, this scenario comes in 3.7% above the baseline at 10.08 hr.
  • It estimates total investigation hours from the number of excursions and your investigation rate, uplifted by an allowance for QA escalation and documentation. 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

  • estimated excursion investigation workload: 10.08 hr (headline result)
  • base excursion investigation workload: 7.2 hr
  • QA escalation and documentation allowance: 40 %
  • excursion investigations completed per hour: 2.5 investigations / hr

Run it with your numbers

  • Every input above is editable in the live Excursion Investigation Workload calculator, which recalculates instantly and can be shared with the inputs intact.

Last reviewed 2026-05-12.