Hospital Equipment & Clinical Furniture worked example

Supplier Risk with severity of supplier failure impact of 18 score (1-10): a worked example in hospital equipment & clinical furniture

What does the result look like when severity of supplier failure impact reaches 18 score (1-10)? The full calculation is worked below with real intermediate numbers. Use it when ranking supplier risk across your hospital equipment supply base during a sourcing review, annual supplier audit cycle, or after a supply disruption.

The inputs for this scenario

  • Severity of supplier failure impact: 18 score (1-10) (raised for this scenario; the documented default is 7)
  • Occurrence rate of supplier failures: 3 score (1-10) (unchanged)
  • Detection capability for supplier issues: 4 score (1-10) (unchanged)

Working through the calculation

  • Applying the documented formula (Supplier risk priority number = severity × occurrence × detection) to the inputs above produces each figure below.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 9.25 score for supplier risk priority number, the number this scenario is built around.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 18 score for supplier failure severity score.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 3 score for supplier failure occurrence score.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 4 score for supplier issue detection score.

How this compares with the baseline

  • Against the tool's baseline example, where severity of supplier failure impact sits at 7 score (1-10) and the headline result is 4.85 score, this scenario comes in 90.72% above the baseline at 9.25 score.
  • A figure at this level is achievable when severity of supplier failure impact is genuinely sustained, not just peaked for a shift. Scores are subjective judgments on a 1-10 scale; the number is only comparable if every supplier is rated by the same rubric and raters, and it does not capture financial or geopolitical risk directly.

Results at a glance

  • Supplier risk priority number: 9.25 score (headline result)
  • Supplier failure severity score: 18 score
  • Supplier failure occurrence score: 3 score
  • Supplier issue detection score: 4 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.