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When the Trade-Off Is Real: Cost-to-Serve as a Planning Discipline

A practitioner discussion on cost-to-serve trade-offs across service, working capital and margin. What leaders are actually experiencing, where simulation helps, and why the finance relationship is often the hardest constraint to shift.

Why Supply Chain Planning Keeps Failing — Even When “Nothing Is Broken”

Many supply chains appear stable but rely on planning assumptions that no longer hold. This article explains why average-based planning struggles in volatile environments and why failure often goes unnoticed.

Are Service Cost and Cash Really a Trade-Off — or a Planning Myth?

The trade-off between service, cost and cash is widely accepted in supply chains. This article challenges whether it is truly unavoidable, or a consequence of how planning decisions are framed.

Online sessions

From Analysis to Action: How to Turn Planning Insight into Organisational Commitment

You have the cost-to-serve analysis. You know what it's pointing to. So why hasn't the organisation moved — and what would it actually take to turn that insight into something people commit to acting on?

  • Where cost-to-serve analysis tends to stall after the initial insight — and whether the obstacle is usually timing, stakeholder alignment, or something else
  • Where analysis stalls rather than moves organisations — what is usually missing and why
  • How to frame the gap between current performance and potential in terms that Finance and the exec can act on rather than defer
  • What decision confidence actually requires, and how to build it when the data you have is imperfect
  • How peers have managed the tension between analytical rigour and the need to create forward momentum
  • What it actually takes to use CTS analytics without a full data migration — and how to address the concern that existing tools should already handle this
  • Where decision intelligence tools have changed the conversation — and where the limiting factor was never the technology
July 15, 2026
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In-person meetings

Plenary / panel / enabler sessions

What early implementation actually looks like: practitioner cases from the first twelve months

What does the gap between committing to a capability investment and seeing measurable impact actually contain? Real implementation cases covering what worked, what surprised, and what those involved would do differently.

14.00 - 14.20
 · 
November 12, 2026
 · 
Central London, UK
 · 
Autumn 2026 Meeting

Capability-focused roundtable discussions

Cost-to-serve transparency & dynamic scenario modelling

  • Do you know your major cost drivers well enough to act on them, or well enough to describe them in a deck?
  • Where does cost-to-serve visibility currently sit, and is that the right place for it given the decisions it's meant to inform?
  • What would dynamic scenario modelling actually change about a decision you're facing, versus what would it just confirm?
  • How do you avoid building a more sophisticated model that nobody outside finance and supply chain ever looks at?
November 12, 2026
 · 
Central London, UK
 · 
Autumn 2026 Meeting