Working capital improvement: Lever register with customer and supplier reaction testing

A working capital assumption register: days and cash by lever, customer and supplier reaction, write-downs, and costs, tested before the case is appraised.

Asset IDSTX-R441

CategoryIntelligence and Research Methods

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Prepared byStratenity Advisory Team

Executive summary

A method for documenting and testing what a working capital program assumes, lever by lever, before cash targets are committed.

What is inside

What the research pack covers

The asset walks a research lead through harvesting lever assumptions, grading them, ranking materiality, interviewing customers and suppliers, trialing stock clearance, updating the register, and freezing it. It ends with an assumption register, a source log, and a research question tracker, with a worked synthetic case.

Turning a working capital baseline and readiness position into governed assumptions
Each lever's days, cash, and timing as a range
Separating balance reduction from cash released
Customer and supplier reactions as tested assumptions
Write-downs, costs, and margin effects
Kill thresholds and a challenge session before freeze

How to use it

How teams use it

Teams use it after the baseline and readiness assessment, in the four to six weeks before the options appraisal. Finance, credit, sales, supply chain, and procurement build the register together; an independent challenger tests it; the frozen version is the single source for appraisal.

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Stratenity Advisory Team. (2026). Working capital improvement: Lever register with customer and supplier reaction testing. Stratenity Library. https://www.stratenity.com/resources/library/intelligence-research/working-capital-improvement-lever-register-with-customer-and-supplier-reaction-t

Stratenity Advisory Team. "Working capital improvement: Lever register with customer and supplier reaction testing." Stratenity Library, 2026, www.stratenity.com/resources/library/intelligence-research/working-capital-improvement-lever-register-with-customer-and-supplier-reaction-t.

Stratenity Advisory Team. "Working capital improvement: Lever register with customer and supplier reaction testing." Stratenity Library, 2026. https://www.stratenity.com/resources/library/intelligence-research/working-capital-improvement-lever-register-with-customer-and-supplier-reaction-t.

Stratenity Advisory Team (2026) Working capital improvement: Lever register with customer and supplier reaction testing. Stratenity Library. Available at: https://www.stratenity.com/resources/library/intelligence-research/working-capital-improvement-lever-register-with-customer-and-supplier-reaction-t (Accessed: the date of access).

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Working capital improvement: Lever register with customer and supplier reaction testing

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