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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

Cost-to-Serve as a Planning Discipline: Making Trade-Offs Explicit in Every Decision

When the environment is moving too fast for certainty, how do you make confident trade-off decisions — and what does it cost you not to?

  • Whether your current planning processes make cost-to-serve trade-offs visible or leave them implied
  • How leaders are making investment decisions when the case for acting and the case for waiting are both defensible
  • How to build a business case for targeted investment when a larger platform spend is already on the books
  • What it actually takes to make trade-offs explicit — data, governance, or a different kind of conversation with finance
  • Where cost-to-serve visibility has changed a decision that would otherwise have been made on instinct
June 10, 2026
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In-person meetings

Plenary / panel / contextual 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

  • Build initial visibility into major cost drivers, expanding toward integrated dashboards uniting finance, logistics, and commercial data.
  • Use modular analytics to reveal true product, customer, and channel profitability, driving cross-functional alignment.
  • Progress to dynamic scenario modelling that informs design of profitable, sustainable, and resilient service portfolios.
November 12, 2026
 · 
Central London, UK
 · 
Autumn 2026 Meeting