Flavors, Fragrances & Aroma Chemicals worked example

QA Release Time at 14% retest, documentation, and hold allowance: a worked example in flavors, fragrances & aroma chemicals

This worked example runs the qa release time numbers for a tougher week than the baseline: 14% retest, documentation, and hold allowance instead of the typical 20%. Estimate QA/QC release hours for flavor concentrates, fragrance oils, aroma chemicals, solvent blends, and finished compounds.

The inputs for this scenario

  • Lots awaiting QA release: 42 lots (held at the documented default)
  • QA lots released per hour: 5.5 lots / hr (held at the documented default)
  • Retest, documentation, and hold allowance: 14 % (the input this scenario stresses; the baseline uses 20)

Working through the calculation

  • The calculation starts from the formula this tool documents: Base qa release time = lots awaiting qa release รท qa releases completed per hour.
  • Required qa release time works out to 8.71 hr at these inputs, and this is the headline figure for the scenario.
  • Base qa release time works out to 7.64 hr at these inputs.
  • Retest, documentation, and hold allowance works out to 14 % at these inputs.
  • QA releases completed per hour works out to 5.5 lots / hr at these inputs.

How this compares with the baseline

  • Against the tool's baseline example, where retest, documentation, and hold allowance sits at 20% and the headline result is 9.16 hr, this scenario comes in 5% below the baseline at 8.71 hr.
  • Use it when promising ship dates on held inventory, sizing weekend QA coverage, or diagnosing why a release backlog is not clearing. A result at this level usually justifies acting on the stressed input before touching anything else, because every other figure in the table is downstream of it.

Results at a glance

  • Required qa release time: 8.71 hr (headline result)
  • Base qa release time: 7.64 hr
  • Retest, documentation, and hold allowance: 14 %
  • QA releases completed per hour: 5.5 lots / hr

Run it with your numbers

  • To rerun this with your own numbers, open the live QA Release Time calculator, set retest, documentation, and hold allowance to your actual value, and adjust the remaining inputs to match your operation.

Last reviewed 2026-05-12.