Cost-to-serve redesign: Service-change assumption register with customer reaction pilot

Build the cost-to-serve case from graded assumptions: customer reaction to minimum orders, portal shift, releasable cost, margin at risk, and timing.

Asset IDSTX-R444

CategoryIntelligence and Research Methods

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Prepared byStratenity Advisory Team

Executive summary

A method for building a cost-to-serve case from tested assumptions, so savings, customer reactions, and timing are evidenced before service changes are chosen.

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What the research pack covers

The asset walks a research lead through harvesting assumptions from the baseline and readiness statement, grading them, ranking materiality, setting kill thresholds, interviewing customers, running a pilot, sizing releasable cost and margin at risk, adjusting for lever interactions, and freezing the register. It includes an assumption register, a source log, and a research question tracker.

Turning each service change into ranged, graded assumptions
Separating activity removed from cost actually released
Testing customer reactions with interviews and a pilot
Margin at risk from customers who move volume
Interactions between levers and how to avoid double counting
Timing tied to readiness
A frozen register for the options appraisal

Stratenity Advisory Team. (2026). Cost-to-serve redesign: Service-change assumption register with customer reaction pilot. Stratenity Library. https://www.stratenity.com/resources/library/intelligence-research/cost-to-serve-redesign-service-change-assumption-register-with-customer-reaction

Stratenity Advisory Team. "Cost-to-serve redesign: Service-change assumption register with customer reaction pilot." Stratenity Library, 2026, www.stratenity.com/resources/library/intelligence-research/cost-to-serve-redesign-service-change-assumption-register-with-customer-reaction.

Stratenity Advisory Team. "Cost-to-serve redesign: Service-change assumption register with customer reaction pilot." Stratenity Library, 2026. https://www.stratenity.com/resources/library/intelligence-research/cost-to-serve-redesign-service-change-assumption-register-with-customer-reaction.

Stratenity Advisory Team (2026) Cost-to-serve redesign: Service-change assumption register with customer reaction pilot. Stratenity Library. Available at: https://www.stratenity.com/resources/library/intelligence-research/cost-to-serve-redesign-service-change-assumption-register-with-customer-reaction (Accessed: the date of access).

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