Pet Food & Animal Nutrition Manufacturing worked example

Supplier Ingredient Risk with severity of ingredient failure of 15 score: a worked example

Push severity of ingredient failure up to 15 score and the picture changes. This example computes every intermediate figure at that operating point. Use it when supplier ingredient risk in pet food and animal nutrition manufacturing needs a defensible ranking against other pet food and animal nutrition manufacturing risks for the next review.

The inputs for this scenario

  • Severity of ingredient failure (harm): 15 score (raised for this scenario; the documented default is 6)
  • Occurrence likelihood of the ingredient issue: 4 score (unchanged)
  • Detection difficulty at receiving and QC: 3 score (unchanged)

Working through the calculation

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

How this compares with the baseline

  • Against the tool's baseline example, where severity of ingredient failure 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 scores into a single supplier ingredient risk priority number for ranking ingredients and suppliers. 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 ingredient risk score: 8.15 score (headline result)
  • Supplier ingredient risk severity score: 15 score
  • Supplier ingredient risk occurrence score: 4 score
  • Supplier ingredient risk detection score: 3 score

Run it with your numbers

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

Last reviewed 2026-05-12.