“The Anaplan IFT tool allows users to create and manage Innovations data more efficiently. More time is now spent on analysis as opposed to data entry and validation. This tool has greatly improved the innovations forecasting process. It’s a great addition to the Anaplan platform.”
Unilever USA is the largest and most complex operating company managing more than 200 brands that include beauty and personal care products, food and refreshments, and others. Having such a huge product portfolio the innovation forecasting process was still executed in Excel, compelling data from different sources with many participants involved. The planning team usually faced the following challenges:
Unilever USA is the largest and most complex operating company managing more than 200 brands that include beauty and personal care products, food and refreshments, and others. Having such a huge product portfolio the innovation forecasting process was still executed in Excel, compelling data from different sources with many participants involved. The planning team usually faced the following challenges:
Unilever US team set the goal to improve innovation forecasting performance by implementing a special model – Innovation Forecast Tool (IFT) in Anaplan. The process of creating and managing projects in the company acquired common standards and Anaplan became a single source of truth for all Users. The technical flexibility of Anaplan cloud platform allowed to quickly/easily connect IFT with the existing S&OP model as well as to integrate them with other systems in use – Rapid Response, Kinaxis, SAP– and therefore link finance, sales, and operations data together for a seamless big-picture financial planning and forecasting. As a result, the forecast is now based on real data consolidated from different sources which significantly enhanced accuracy.
Unilever US team set the goal to improve innovation forecasting performance by implementing a special model – Innovation Forecast Tool (IFT) in Anaplan. The process of creating and managing projects in the company acquired common standards and Anaplan became a single source of truth for all Users. The technical flexibility of Anaplan cloud platform allowed to quickly/easily connect IFT with the existing S&OP model as well as to integrate them with other systems in use – Rapid Response, Kinaxis, SAP– and therefore link finance, sales, and operations data together for a seamless big-picture financial planning and forecasting. As a result, the forecast is now based on real data consolidated from different sources which significantly enhanced accuracy.
