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Anaplan Platform

What makes Anaplan, a cloud-based, connected planning platform, special

GOODNESS, EXPLAINED IN SHORT

Get an insight into what makes Anaplan a top-chosen platform when it comes to getting your business planning truly connected.

CONNECTED PLANNING
CONNECTED PLANNING

Anaplan connects teams, their plans and data across all levels and functions to get a Connected Planning process running flawlessly throughout the business

SUPERPOWER IN REAL TIME
SUPERPOWER IN REAL TIME

Anaplan does away with hundreds of Excel© documents and thousands of Excel© tabs and creates a connected cloud-based platform. Now any change to a cell immediately and automatically recalculates all associated cells throughout the model.

MARKET STANDART FOR PLANNING
MARKET STANDART FOR PLANNING

Anaplan is a precise solution for single micro-processes such as Promo planning, bigger integral processes such as S&OP and FP&A, and a comprehensive IBP tool for the whole organization

EMPOWERED USERS
EMPOWERED USERS

The platform is supported and developed by business users, not consultants. All system updates and applications from the Anaplan Hub are always free

JOINT BUSINESS PLANNING
JOINT BUSINESS PLANNING

Anaplan can expand beyond the company borders to loop in external partners like suppliers, agencies, clients into the planning process on a single joint platform

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Seamlessly embeddable Machine Learning enabled models opens extensive possibilities for better forecasting and optimization.
And integrated capabilities of Optimizer© by Anaplan, leveraging leaner optimization methods, aid in finding an optimal allocation on budgets, costs, materials etc. based on set criteria.

LEADER IN THE GARTNER® MAGIC QUADRANT™

In 2022, Anaplan was ranked for the first time as a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Supply Chain Planning Solutions. As a result, more than 1300 companies worldwide have chosen Anaplan to transform and evolve their planning processes.

HOLISTIC SOLUTION

Large and fast-growing organizations use the Anaplan planning platform in every business function to make informed decisions and drive faster, more effective planning processes.

SALES
Sales planning by territory and other quotas

Sales planning by territory and other quotas
Start planning at the most detailed level: customer, city or sales manager or vice versa: set targets at country or channel level – each level can be created and linked in Anaplan

Promo management

Manage your promotional calendar by creating and experimenting with event scenarios, selecting the best areas for investment, and coordinating promotions without leaving Anaplan.

Commercial conditions and Compensations

Customer conditions, discounts, bonuses and compensations planning

Innovation Planning

Management of the entire cycle of new product development and launch, from product concept development, production planning, sales, advertising and promotional budgets, to the preparation of the full P&L of the innovation.

SUPPLY CHAIN
S&OP

An end-to-end S&OP process management with unified data, plans and analytics – another step toward maturity of this pivotal business process

Material & Inventory management

From sales plan to ordering raw materials and packaging based on current recipes with the ability to calculate production costs. Inventory management of finished goods, taking into account safety stocks, delivery times and agreed minimum batches at each stage from production to the shelf

Forecasting

More than 30 statistical forecasting algorithms are in integrated in Anaplan and seamlessly embeddable ML-enabled forecasting models

Logistics

Calculation and planning of warehouse and transport logistics costs based on the current sales and movement plan with the option of flexible scenario planning

FINANCE
Classic FP&A

Multiple budgets management – starting from simple bottom-up template consolidation to complex CAPEX models with a various scenario planning

Revenue & Profit planning

Operational data-integrated financial plans & forecasts, including reports based on a selected calculation methodology. Decisions modelling and evaluation process. Creation of a unified information base for informed and balanced decision-making

OpEx and CapEx planning

Linked strategic, annual and tactical plans with “what-if” analysis on all planned expenditures. Precisely adjusted processes of planning and analysis for expenditures with deep hands-on knowledge for continuous improvement

Zero-based budgeting

Management of the budgeting process, analyzing the feasibility of each expense item to optimize those that do not create significant value for the business.

CORPORATE MANAGEMENT
IBP Orchestration

A truly integrated planning process based on the creation and management of a single database for effective business planning, as well as a clear process for sequencing key planning processes and managing decision-making roles

Strategic planning

A strategy model with a scenario planning and business simulation and an integration with Annual and Operation models

Workforce planning

Various HR planning tasks starting from standard workforce planning to more sophisticated solutions like ramp-up planning, talent management, bonus & compensation planning

Project portfolio planning

Enables viewing the business through the prism of strategic projects, to see their impact on all parts of the business, such as production, supplies, sales, human resources, and finances

INTEGRATED PLANNING IN ACTION

Starting off with just on planning process, the platform easily expands to new adjacent ones to create truly connected planning in a single platform with a single licensing policy. That is what makes Anaplan unique and different.

Sales
Finance
Supply chain
Strategic planning

ANAPLAN IS DIFFERENT

Anaplan enables structuring and consolidation of data and information wherever they are - in voluminous Excel© and Access© documents or in corporate systems. You can integrate all master data, processes and people into a single planning platform for the entire business.

Simple & Intuitive
  • No programming, scripts, macros. The experience for modelers is easy and intuitive, even simpler than in Excel©
  • Anaplan eliminates Excel© work in all areas of the planning process that you choose to automate. The platform models support simultaneous access and handling of hundreds of billions of cells
  • No need to manage any in-house infrastructure
  • Any change to the model can be made on the fly by your local teams
Connected & Transparent
  • Anaplan smoothly integrates into your current IT infrastructure, enriching it, without disturbing
  • The platform connects fragmented data, disjoint processes and dispersed teams in your business into a single connected model
  • It links Operational planning with Financial and Strategic planning
  • The platform brings transparency for top management via dashboards. Deep, intuitive and detailed drill-down capabilities is the strength of the platform
  • Automated model visualization and logic documentation helps to have a transparent and open mode
Easy to start
  • It takes about 8-10 weeks to implement one use case for your business
  • We involve your team from the very beginning, co-create and teach them so that later you can make changes and create models yourself
  • It does not take a Math PhD to work and model with Anaplan. The powerful Hyperblock© technology makes Anaplan fast, and the modeling is done using an Excel-like language
Powerful & Productive
  • As soon as you change a cell in Anaplan, all dependent cells are updated instantly
  • The power of the platform allows working with almost unlimited models and millions of cells
  • The platform supports thousands of users at a time
Cost Efficient
  • The total cost of ownership is considerably low and transparent for the client from the very beginning. There are no hidden costs
  • With Anaplan, you spend NOTHING on hardware, new versions, or administration
  • Unlike many other systems, you always get upgraded versions for free once they get released
  • Anaplan Service Level Agreement (SLA) guarantees a 99,95% service availability all year long which is included in the subscription. In-house solutions cannot provide a comparable level of performance for the same cost
Safe & Secure
  • Anaplan has been recognized by the largest companies all over the world like Unilever, Kimberly-Clark, HP, Walmart, TataSteel, Carlsberg, Sky and many others
  • The highest security standards are guaranteed on every level - from physical access to data centers to web transfer encryptions

RESULTS THAT MATTER

Anaplan is helping companies run their existing business processes simpler, faster and more cost-efficiently. Its customers see significant change across core business metrics with Anaplan, which gets further reflected in positive business results.

“Budgeting and planning process time cut from 2 to 3 weeks to 2 to 3 days”
Del MonteSupply Chain, Finance
“Reduced the time spent aggregating sales data from a month to three days”
Hewlett-PackardSales
“Sales and operations are now directly connected on one platform. We are seeing more accurate pricing, procurement, and delivery forecasts”
Tata SteelSupply Chain
"…Nearly all of our work is automated [financial planning process], which saves us valuable time and reduces our risks for human mistakes"
Booking.comFP&A
"Reduced a financial planning process from nine months to five months. The workforce planning team experienced a 50% improvement in productivity"
RSAFinance & Workspace planning
"It saved 14,000 hours per month [U.S.] in the entire S&OP process. A 19% reduction in time spent on S&OP worldwide."
UnileverS&OP, Executive Dashboards

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