Reshoring & Tariff Strategy worked example

Freight Risk Savings with freight risk savings severity score of 15 score: a worked example

Push freight risk savings severity score up to 15 score and the picture changes. This example computes every intermediate figure at that operating point. Use it when freight risk savings in reshoring and tariff strategy needs a defensible ranking against other reshoring and tariff strategy risks for the next review.

The inputs for this scenario

  • Freight risk savings severity score: 15 score (raised for this scenario; the documented default is 6)
  • Freight risk savings occurrence score: 4 score (unchanged)
  • Freight risk savings detection score: 3 score (unchanged)

Working through the calculation

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

How this compares with the baseline

  • Against the tool's baseline example, where freight risk savings 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.
  • Computes a freight risk priority number by multiplying severity, occurrence, and detection scores on a common 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

  • Freight risk savings risk score: 8.15 score (headline result)
  • Freight risk savings severity score: 15 score
  • Freight risk savings occurrence score: 4 score
  • Freight risk savings detection score: 3 score

Run it with your numbers

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

Last reviewed 2026-05-12.