Cost-to-serve redesign: Options appraisal and investment case

Appraise cost-to-serve options on cost released, margin at risk, service margin, and NPV, and test whether customer-facing changes earn their downside risk.

Asset IDSTX-A0124

CategoryDecision and Communication Templates

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Prepared byStratenity Advisory Team

Executive summary

A method for choosing which service changes to fund, on cost released and on the customer margin they put at risk.

What is inside

What the investment case covers

The asset walks an appraisal lead from the frozen register through option design, the cost-released model, margin at risk, service outcomes, incremental and stress testing, staging, and the committee paper. It includes an options matrix, a cost-benefit workbook layout, and a sensitivity table, with a worked synthetic case.

Building options from tested service levers
Operational changes versus customer-facing changes
Cost actually released, not activity removed
Margin at risk and surcharge income kept separate

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How to use it

How teams use it

Teams use it in the two to three weeks after the register is frozen. Commercial finance builds the model, operations, logistics, digital, and sales shape the options, and the COO and CFO take a staged recommendation to the executive committee.

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Stratenity Advisory Team. (2026). Cost-to-serve redesign: Options appraisal and investment case. Stratenity Library. https://www.stratenity.com/resources/library/decision-and-communication-templates/cost-to-serve-redesign-options-appraisal-and-investment-case

Stratenity Advisory Team. "Cost-to-serve redesign: Options appraisal and investment case." Stratenity Library, 2026, www.stratenity.com/resources/library/decision-and-communication-templates/cost-to-serve-redesign-options-appraisal-and-investment-case.

Stratenity Advisory Team. "Cost-to-serve redesign: Options appraisal and investment case." Stratenity Library, 2026. https://www.stratenity.com/resources/library/decision-and-communication-templates/cost-to-serve-redesign-options-appraisal-and-investment-case.

Stratenity Advisory Team (2026) Cost-to-serve redesign: Options appraisal and investment case. Stratenity Library. Available at: https://www.stratenity.com/resources/library/decision-and-communication-templates/cost-to-serve-redesign-options-appraisal-and-investment-case (Accessed: the date of access).

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Cost-to-serve redesign: Options appraisal and investment case

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