ANAPLAN

ANAPLAN

cloud-based planning and performance management platform for every Business Area (sales, operations and finance)

Is it true that Quality only comes with Price? No. Anaplan is a Tool which can deliver it all at lowest rates you can imagine, in a simplified streamlined way.

Planning, Budgeting, Forecasting, Modeling simplified for Sales, Operations, Finance modules. Anaplan is one of the best modeling and planning platform available on cloud which cuts down unnecessary infra costs and reduces implementation delays. It has In-memory processing and a patented HyperBlockTM Architecture. Both, building a new model or using a pre-defined one both comes in easy and handy for the business users. Collaborate and execute on plans across your company. API - intuitive user Import/Export and pre-built connectors for data integration. It has one of the simplest UI possible. Adjusting and updating Business Rules on the fly has never been this easy. Changes are reflected across in all connected plans and models seamlessly.

  • Implementation cycle takes not more than 1/10 of the time of existing competitor’s deployment time.
  • There’s no restriction, As the business/sector grows, the app grows too.
  • Building new business models is simplified to increase efficiency.
  • Online platform that delivers Ready-to-go Apps which are designed to work together.
  • Provides flexible and affordable solution for spreadsheet forecasting.
  • All apps on Cloud, with personal workspace.
  • Analytics features including dashboards, charts, PDF generation and a tightly integrated MS XLS.
  • Accuracy of your data, reports, forecasts and plans will be in its highest form.
  • Time wasted on millions of spreadsheets is reduced.
  • No need of technical experts, masters for upgrades/changes.
  • No special software/hardware needed. All you need is an internet connected device.
  • Fully supported from any mobile device (iOS, Android, Windows).

FINANCE

Budgeting, forecasting, cash flow forecast, HR planning, liquidity planning, long term strategic planning etc.

OPERATIONS

Project planning, Demand planning, site/plot planning etc.

SALES

Sales forecasting, territory planning, quota planning, commission calculations, trade & promotions etc.

ANAPLAN FOR FINANCE

Connecting Finance with Operations

Anaplan for Finance brings a fresh methodology to financial planning and analytics (FP&A). The rapidly deployable, flexible, easy-access platform delivers short time to value for the business user. Immediately leverage familiar business syntax, drag-and-drop hierarchies, and built-in logic for time, versions, and scenarios. Be assured that data and plans are telling a consistent story results are mapping to projections and business decisions and supporting strategic priorities. Run scenarios on the fly for complex variables, disruption and ambiguity. Rapidly react to changing sdynamics and deliver immediate business value with models, plans and forecasts built to any level of granularity and dimension.

FINANCE APPLICATIONS

Capital Expenditures - Merge business operations insight and financial modeling to make healthier decisions about sizable capital investments.
Benefits
  • Effortlessly model currency, rates, tax, depreciation and other financial drivers.
  • Trial scenarios based on varying projections of operational performance.
  • Comprehend impact of investments company financials.
Workforce Planning - Model estimated headcount and associated costs to achieve better staffing and operational decisions.
Benefits
  • Manage intricate organization hierarchies from different perspectives at ease.
  • Examine impact of re-organization consequences on key metrics in seconds.
  • Align workforces with strategic and operational goals.
  • Collaborate more efficiently with business leaders about staffing decisions
Expense Allocation - Accomplish the distribution of fixed and variable costs across products and cost centres, leveraging various methods of allocation.
Benefits
  • Spend less time squabbling data and more time finalizing analysis.
  • Accelerate margins with smarter expense allocations.
  • Effortlessly change calculations as the business grows.
Financial Consolidations - Complete financial consolidation in real-time with direct integration into operational plans. Key financials can be easily rolled up across an enterprise (stores, cost centres, lines of business, regions) in seconds to provide complete insights on business operations.
Benefits
  • Observe performance measures from diverse business perspectives (chart of accounts, cost centres, departments).
  • Easily build reports for executive meetings.
  • Achieve comprehensive visibility into the details of the business.
Profitability Analysis - Evaluate profitability across business dimensions and effortlessly drill down for fine-grained understanding of profitability drivers.
Benefits
  • Accelerate profits by aligning investments against key profitability drivers.
  • Build models to analyze various business dimensions concurrently.

ANAPLAN FOR OPERATIONS

Technology that aligns to processes

Anaplan's single platform links each department's business processes, whether it's layering in time dimensions across departments or rapidly translating KPIs across geographies and departments.

OPERATIONS APPLICATIONS

Demand Planning - Plan distribution of products across locations, channels and key customer segments to ensure an optimal product mix that maximizes sales and increases share of wallet.
Benefits
  • Drive forward thinking, data driven planning with integrated operational plans.
  • Roll-up the details for aggregated views of the forecast and historical performance.
  • Combine plans with management metrics, executive reporting, and corporate reporting.
Project Planning - Assign resources to projects across role types and skill sets. Easily access analytics around resource utilization,
availability and project financials.
Benefits
  • Create operational plans instantly based on historical data that delivers plans, budgets and alerts when numbers exceed thresholds.
  • Spend less time aggregating reports and more time completing analysis and making adjustments to maintain alignment to strategic goals.
  • Run scenarios, simulations and what ifs based on real time operational data that is accurate and up to date.
Site/store Planning - Manage multiple locations on a single platform to ensure projects are completed on time and within budget. Track completion of key project milestones and costs.
Benefits
  • Reduces the time and manual manipulation required to effectively model sale and associated costs.
  • Effortlessly analyze the data with easy to manage modules. Transferring costs is made easy with formulas that make transfers visible and speedy.
  • Share models across departments (Retail - finance, merchandising, store, supply, distribution).
  • Test operating plans by quickly answering "what if" questions on different scenarios.

ANAPLAN FOR SALES

Completing and Closing the Loop in Sales

Ensure achieving perfection while working on territorial alignment, quotas, management, pipeline forecasting, settings of sales targets and commissions calculation in a state of the art mechanism through a seamlessly connected set of applications. Keeping all of your business rules and sales data in one hub while sales and finance stay synchronized, plan adjustments are made on the fly, and sales processes are streamlined for optimal performance.

SALES APPLICATIONS

Territorial Planning - Maintain balanced territories across all dimensions of the business.
Benefits
  • Account segmentation by revenue potential (other metrics could be used) to achieve optimization.
  • Project impact of territory and assignment changes on sales and commissions.
  • Improve rep contentment while achieving balanced territory assignments.
  • Sustain alignment by managing various changes in a centralized manner.
Setting Targets - Set optimal targets across regions, people, products, and lines of business.
Benefits
  • Achieve targets generation across several business dimensions in seconds.
  • Accuracy in target setting leads to balanced territorial view and achievable quotas.
  • Maintain strategic vision while tuning targets at the finest level of detail.
Management of Quota- Reconcile top-down targets and bottom-up quotas to achieve optimization of coverage and productivity of reps.
Benefits
  • Maintain solid alignment between top-down targets and bottom-up projections.
  • Elimination of hidden costs resulted from poor quota allocation.
  • Improve visibility of buy-in to personal and corporate goals.
Incentive Compensation - Modeling of compensation plans, commissions calculation, analysis of plan effectiveness and capture the "What if scenarios?" from one simple yet powerful platform.
Benefits
  • Analyze commission plans to maximize revenue and reduce cost of sales.
  • Automate processing of calculations for complex commission plans.
  • Eliminate / reduce payment errors and improve service levels to eliminate shadow-accounting.