Anaplan
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Anaplan Partner
What do you like best about the product?
The easiness to modeling business processes and the flexibility of the tool to be used in various areas and business processes.
The sectors in which I have used Anaplan are: Consumer Goods and Services, Beverage, Manufacturing, Utilities,
Finance and Insurance, Telecommunication Services, Aeros pace & Defense, Electronic & Electrical Equipment, Pharmaceutical, Retail, Wholesale, Automotive Supplier , Online Booking.
The sectors in which I have used Anaplan are: Consumer Goods and Services, Beverage, Manufacturing, Utilities,
Finance and Insurance, Telecommunication Services, Aeros pace & Defense, Electronic & Electrical Equipment, Pharmaceutical, Retail, Wholesale, Automotive Supplier , Online Booking.
What do you dislike about the product?
UX still to be improved (graphs, customizations and dynamicity).
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan has helped solving and improving many business cases especially in the areas of Financial Planning and Commercial Planning: Intelligent Connected Planning, Working capital analysis, Revenue Performance Management, Gross to Net, What If Analysis, Material Planning, Approval Workflow, Suppliers Allocation, Cost and Saving Model, Financial Planning Budgeting & Forecasting, P&L Planning , Finished Good Spend variance analysis, Commerical Planning, Management Reporting, Balance Sheet, Sales Budget, RFQ, New Product Introduction , COGS Planning.
Anaplan for Rolling Forecast
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan helps businesses transform their financial systems and processes by providing a database, engine and user interface on one platform. As the data store on the cloud , it offers the power combination of one version of truth (data) and real-time result. It also empowers company to have a connected planning with one source of data across all models and enabling each to access data from the others. It also has a friendly and sleek dashboards which only contains relevant data.
What do you dislike about the product?
As for all the systems out there, there is always a big room for improvement and as for Anaplan we are looking forward to various enhancements on functionalities already on the road. Most of the enhancements are from their current visionaries, hands-on builders, and experienced end users.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The one that I would like to highlight that Anaplan solves is the one of the biggest pain points of accountants or finance people, the large number of versions they have in their financial worksheets. With Anaplan, this different version of one financial worksheet is eliminated. It provides one set of your data (list) and one engine means one formula for all items (module).
Anaplan is an excellent planning tool
What do you like best about the product?
Extremely flexible and powerful. Anaplan is able to tackle almost any modelling challenge and make processes more sustainable and efficient.
What do you dislike about the product?
Visuals aren't as advanced as some other tools, but the new UX is improving this.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Annual budgeting and forecasting. We want to also do some more long term cash projections, but this has been a work in progress due to large project size.
Master Anaplanner, Anaplan Implemantation since 2016
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan can be self service system by business users. No need for technical support like admins, developers and other technical staff.
What do you dislike about the product?
Anaplan is sensitive architecture decisions which could lead to performance issues. In the same time best practices, weaknessm workaround are well known via community discussions, learning programs
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Classical problems - FP&A, Cost analysis. Demand planning, IFRS cases like IFRS 16. Common Benefits - 1 common source of data (instead of many excel files), audit trails, drill down transparency. Benefits from realizing different business problems on one platform using common source of input data.
5 years Anaplan journey
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is very flexible and easy to use platform, but secure and robust at the same time
What do you dislike about the product?
Pricing can be more adaptive for low market segment.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan helps to use single source of data for the whole organisation, reduce possibility of human mistakes and allows to see changes immediately
Connected Planning at its best
What do you like best about the product?
Powerful, fast data calculations combined with nice easy to use user interfaces
What do you dislike about the product?
i think the powerpoint addin could be improved
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
supply Chain planning with data avaialble to other departments within the business via hubs and satalite models
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Do your due dilligance with other planning tools but keep in mind the excellent network of partners and Anaplan SA's / Model builder expertize which is second to none
Anaplan - Powerful & Flexible Business Planning Platform
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is a truly dynamic multi dimensional modeling platform which performs calculations in real time. This allows Anaplan to offer agility, flexibility and power to model any Business planning process or workflow across any function.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are no major downsides of the platform. The platform is constantly evolving and I am excited for new UI and reporting enhancements which will offer advanced analytics to the end users
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The platform is able to solve core problem of agility which any business process requires and ability to model across multiple dimensions which truly makes the platform industry and function agnostic in Enterprise Business Planning
Anaplan for Supply Chain
What do you like best about the product?
It is flexible and owned by the business
What do you dislike about the product?
Limited visualization items for end users
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Flexible and easy to integrate with multiple areas of a business
Great tool
What do you like best about the product?
Scalability, flexibility and ability to move from the standard solution to cloud
What do you dislike about the product?
reacting to proposed changes is rather weak- platform could be better hearing valuable opinions
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
cloud solution instead of standard local files
Recommendations to others considering the product:
try it and love it
Quick Implementation, Low Maintenance, Increased Accuracy!
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is relatively intuitive and easy to pick up on if users have a background with MS Excel, which makes it great for system admins and power users since they typically have strong Excel backgrounds and can pick up on the syntax/logic required to build in Anaplan. I also love how quick the implementations are and the ability to have multiple use cases all within the same system (and even same workspace). There's also a strong community with forums, blogs, template models, etc. to assist organizations in their Anaplan journey.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not too much to dislike, but would like to see improvements in aggregation methods for P&L purposes aggregates everything, but would like ability to have a more flexible option of flipping signs when needed).
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Connected Planning across Demand, Supply, and FP&A functions. Increased forecast accuracy in less time. Real time updates. Easily version or snapshot forecasts that isn't easily possible in other solutions.
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