Anaplan
3 Reviews 5/5 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★A budgeting and planning system that promotes real-time business performance improvement with supply chain management, financial, and sales modules.
Product Overview
Anaplan Connected Planning platform helps companies improve business performance in real-time. The cloud-based platform connects real-time data, people, and plans across your business. Modules offer functionality in sales, supply chain planning, marketing, IT, and workforce management.
Large and fast-growing organizations use Anaplan’s planning platform in every business function to make informed decisions and drive faster, more effective planning processes. The powerful in-memory engine, Hyperblock, supports detailed and complex planning models.
Pros
- Connected Planning platform enables collaborative planning
- Hyperblock™ modeling and calculation engine
- Unified cloud-based software
- Fast reactions to demand changes
- Effectively monitors precisely defined KPIs
Cons
- Pricing is on the high end
- No embedded ETL tools in base plan
- Specific pricing details unavailable from developer
Target Market
Large enterprises, particularly those in sales, operations, and finance. There are solutions for retail, manufacturing, technology, and financial industries.Video Overview
Key Features
Anaplan can be broken up into these modules and use cases:
Finance
Build financial plans and orchestrate performance with speed, precision, and true collaboration.
- Cross-enterprise revenue planning
- Planning, budgeting, and forecasting
- Capital project integrations for detailed capital planning
- OpEx planning
- Model generation and long-range scenario planning
- Reporting and analysis
Sales
- Sales capacity
- Account segmentation and scoring
- Territory planning
- Sales forecasting
- Quota planning
- Deal desk
- Sales forecasting
- Incentive compensation
Supply Chain
- Sales and operations planning
- Predictive analytics
- Demand planning
- Supply planning
- Product and sales forecasting
- Supply chain finance
- Trade promotions planning
- Distribution requirements planning
HR & Workforce
- Headcount and cost planning
- Workforce capacity planning
- Succession planning
- Compensation and equity modeling
- Workforce optimization, including call center
- Talent strategy
Industries Served
- Consumer goods
- Financial and business services
- Manufacturing
- Retail
- Technology and media
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It used to take us five days to react to demand changes. Now, with Anaplan, it takes us less than five minutes to come up with the necessary adjustments in production.
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Anaplan helps us to see what’s possible with collaborative planning–within sales, and across Vodafone.
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Thanks to precisely defined KPIs, we can effectively monitor activities and results at any level with Anaplan.
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