Hospital Equipment & Clinical Furniture worked example

Delivery Risk with severity of impact if this order ships late of 20 score (1-10): a worked example in hospital equipment & clinical furniture

Push severity of impact if this order ships late up to 20 score (1-10) and the picture changes. This example computes every intermediate figure at that operating point. Use it when reviewing hospital equipment orders at risk of late delivery due to capacity constraints, component shortages, or logistics delays, and you need to rank orders for escalation.

The inputs for this scenario

  • Severity of impact if this order ships late: 20 score (1-10) (raised for this scenario; the documented default is 8)
  • How often this order type has been delayed before: 3 score (1-10) (unchanged)
  • Ability to detect a slip before the due date: 4 score (1-10) (unchanged)

Working through the calculation

  • Applying the documented formula (Delivery risk priority number = severity × occurrence × detection) to the inputs above produces each figure below.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 10.05 score for delivery risk priority number, the number this scenario is built around.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 20 score for late delivery severity score.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 3 score for delivery delay occurrence score.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 4 score for delay detection score.

How this compares with the baseline

  • Against the tool's baseline example, where severity of impact if this order ships late sits at 8 score (1-10) and the headline result is 5.25 score, this scenario comes in 91.43% above the baseline at 10.05 score.
  • It computes a delivery risk priority number for an order by multiplying late-delivery severity, historical delay occurrence and delay-detection scores on a 1-10 scale. 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

  • Delivery risk priority number: 10.05 score (headline result)
  • Late delivery severity score: 20 score
  • Delivery delay occurrence score: 3 score
  • Delay detection score: 4 score

Run it with your numbers

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

Last reviewed 2026-05-12.