I think in the past I commented on those "smart" analysis tools in BPM that give you hints like - big backlog at activity XYZ, try adding resources. Well duh! It doesn't take a genius to know that if you add resources to an activity you're going to reduce the backlog. But at what cost? Use case 2 is really about the tradeoff between cycle time, resource utilization rate, and total cost.
And here is where the "standard" costing reports out of my simulation tool were not the most helpful out of the box... although they provided the data I needed in my custom reporting Excel template. That's because the cost you want is NOT the resource's active time x the resource cost per hour, but the resource's total available time x the resource cost per hour. As you add resources, the total active time for N+1 resources is the same as for N resources, so the cost measured the standard way doesn't change. But try telling the hiring manager the cost won't change by adding that N+1st guy. So I had to make custom costing reports, but it was easy. The total cost for a resource is basically the active labor cost divided by the utilization rate, which is provided in the tool.