Anaplan

My team uses Anaplan for supply chain planning in the retail space. The product address problems that are quite different among 15+ epics with scenario planning and multi-dimensionality. The tool helps to make forecasting much easier as the team has transitioned from MS Excel, will almost all options compatible to the ones offered in Excel. We started with North America supply chain and now planning to expand to the other regions, so that the supply chain can be handled in Anaplan across the board globally.

• Standardization/automation across global markets improved >50%
• Efficiency in terms of team-work, communication improved >60%
• Time taken for forecasting/budgeting reduced >50%

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Excel

Anaplan helps eliminate the offline files created by different teams during the financial planning process. The result is that users have one source of truth with the real-time view, so there are not multiple versions of different files flowing from one team/user to another. Another benefit is that the process is unified based on the previously defined and agreed logic, and everybody follows the same steps and calculations. This helps to build more precise and suitable plans based on the same sources in a predefined timeline.

• Faster planning process
• One source of truth
• Real-time collaboration
• In-house implementation and updates
• More precise and transparent planning

Microsoft Power BI

We've been using Anaplan for the past 10 years, and currently have over 30+ active business use case model in operation. Prior to Anaplan, our reporting process was heavily manual, requiring the consolidation of 100+ spreadsheet form asset managers across various locations to produce fund level and group level reports. This process was time consuming with significant effort spent on data collection, error, checking and reporting. With Anaplan, reporting has become fully automated and real time, elimination manual effort. it now serves as a centralised platform to manage over 100+ properties, streaming operations across multiple regions. We've been using Anaplan across wide range of use use cases, including Real Estate Cashflow modeling, Financial Planning and Forecasting, Expense management and Group Reporting's.

• Cloud based platform
• Integrating multiple business processes within Anaplan
• Intelligent decision making using AI
• Customisable modeling and Scalability
• Integration to down systems

• Planning time has significantly decreased. The ability to perform what-if scenario planning adds substantial value to the business, empowering planners to explore different outcomes and develop the most accurate and strategic forecasts.
• Data consolidation time has been reduced from a full week to virtually zero.
• Serves as a Single Source of Truth, one unified platform that supports all use cases and user groups
• Governance over user access and control is excellent

Microsoft Excel

Informatica B2B Data Exchange (legacy), Microsoft Excel, Python IDLE

We use Anaplan in HR, Finance and Sales planning teams. we integrate all these organization using Anaplan leading to Connected planning. Prior to using Anaplan all the teams were using Excel worksheets leading to delay in submission and incorrect version. Using Anaplan we have eliminated such issues. The Data transfer between systems and teams have improved and created more trust in the data and team, the process.

• Connected Planning
• Data Security
• Real time consolidation

• Quick turnaround of data between teams
• Managing entire 28-billion-dollar companies planning
• Complex Business Scenario planning

SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation) and Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management

Oracle Hyperion, SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation), Microsoft Power BI

I use Anaplan to build models for business users, i.e. planning, budgeting, and forecasting (PBF) models, that are customized to their business needs. With Anaplan we're able to connect all levels of an FP&A organization (from analysts to leadership) and beyond to other organizations throughout companies, such as Sales, Marketing, and HR. The models we implement typically incorporate detailed hierarchies with large datasets, transform that data and perform calculations to produce detailed forecasts at the lowest levels, and easily consolidate and aggregate those forecasts to produce high-level reporting. Leadership can then use these reports to analyze KPI's, simulate scenarios, strategize moves, make decisions, develop goals, and set targets across multiple internal organizations.

• Reduce hours needed to produce forecasts
• Increase hours spent on analysis and strategy
• Empowers leadership to be agile in a high-paced environment

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Excel, Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Tableau Cloud