Outdoor Power Equipment worked example

Supplier Risk with failure severity score of 15 score: a worked example in outdoor power equipment

Push failure severity score up to 15 score and the picture changes. This example computes every intermediate figure at that operating point. a supplier quality or procurement team needs to rank component risks for the next containment or audit review

The inputs for this scenario

  • Failure severity score: 15 score (raised for this scenario; the documented default is 6)
  • Failure occurrence score: 4 score (unchanged)
  • Detection difficulty score: 3 score (unchanged)

Working through the calculation

  • Applying the documented formula (Supplier risk score = severity score × occurrence score × detection score) to the inputs above produces each figure below.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 8.15 score for supplier risk score, the number this scenario is built around.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 15 score for severity score.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 4 score for occurrence score.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 3 score for detection score.

How this compares with the baseline

  • Against the tool's baseline example, where failure severity score sits at 6 score and the headline result is 4.55 score, this scenario comes in 79.12% above the baseline at 8.15 score.
  • It multiplies severity, occurrence, and detection ratings into a single supplier risk number for ranking and triage. 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

  • Supplier risk score: 8.15 score (headline result)
  • Severity score: 15 score
  • Occurrence score: 4 score
  • 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.