Fitness Equipment & Connected Exercise Hardware worked example
Supplier Risk with supplier issue severity score of 18 score: a worked example in fitness equipment & connected exercise hardware
What does the result look like when supplier issue severity score reaches 18 score? The full calculation is worked below with real intermediate numbers. Use it when reviewing suppliers for frames, motors, belts, displays, control boards, sensors, pedals, bearings, packaging, or connected hardware modules.
The inputs for this scenario
- Supplier issue severity score: 18 score (raised for this scenario; the documented default is 7)
- Supplier issue occurrence score: 4 score (unchanged)
- Supplier issue detection score: 3 score (unchanged)
Working through the calculation
- Applying the documented formula (Supplier Risk score = supplier issue severity score × supplier issue occurrence score × supplier issue detection score) to the inputs above produces each figure below.
- At this operating point the engine returns 9.35 score for supplier risk score, the number this scenario is built around.
- At this operating point the engine returns 18 score for supplier issue severity score.
- At this operating point the engine returns 4 score for supplier issue occurrence score.
- At this operating point the engine returns 3 score for supplier issue detection score.
How this compares with the baseline
- Against the tool's baseline example, where supplier issue severity score sits at 7 score and the headline result is 4.95 score, this scenario comes in 88.89% above the baseline at 9.35 score.
- A figure at this level is achievable when supplier issue severity score is genuinely sustained, not just peaked for a shift. The result is only a relative ranking on a consistent scale, not a probability or dollar figure, and multiplying ordinal scores can overweight one extreme dimension.
Results at a glance
- Supplier Risk score: 9.35 score (headline result)
- Supplier issue severity score: 18 score
- Supplier issue occurrence score: 4 score
- Supplier issue detection score: 3 score
Run it with your numbers
- Every input above is editable in the live Supplier Risk calculator, which recalculates instantly and can be shared with the inputs intact.
Last reviewed 2026-05-12.