Hospital Equipment & Clinical Furniture worked example

Delivery Risk with severity of impact if this order ships late of 4 score (1-10): a worked example in hospital equipment & clinical furniture

Suppose severity of impact if this order ships late falls to 4 score (1-10). This page works the full calculation at that level so you can see exactly which result moves and by how much. Score the delivery risk for a hospital equipment order using severity, occurrence, and detection ratings to produce a risk priority number for order fulfillment reviews.

The inputs for this scenario

  • Severity of impact if this order ships late: 4 score (1-10) (the input this scenario stresses; the baseline uses 8)
  • How often this order type has been delayed before: 3 score (1-10) (held at the documented default)
  • Ability to detect a slip before the due date: 4 score (1-10) (held at the documented default)

Working through the calculation

  • The calculation starts from the formula this tool documents: Delivery risk priority number = severity × occurrence × detection.
  • Delivery risk priority number works out to 3.65 score at these inputs, and this is the headline figure for the scenario.
  • Late delivery severity score works out to 4 score at these inputs.
  • Delivery delay occurrence score works out to 3 score at these inputs.
  • Delay detection score works out to 4 score at these inputs.

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 30.48% below the baseline at 3.65 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. 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

  • Delivery risk priority number: 3.65 score (headline result)
  • Late delivery severity score: 4 score
  • Delivery delay occurrence score: 3 score
  • Delay detection score: 4 score

Run it with your numbers

  • To rerun this with your own numbers, open the live Delivery Risk calculator, set severity of impact if this order ships late to your actual value, and adjust the remaining inputs to match your operation.

Last reviewed 2026-05-12.