Anaplan Reviews and Ratings

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Anaplan for FP&A planning. We plan a full P&L by channel for Wholesale, Direct Store, & .com business. We plan down to the store/customer group using robust driver based planning. In true connected planning form, results are sent to a consolidation model for consolidation with built in FX and Elim logic. In addition, we plan SG&A by cost center for consolidation in the consolidation model. We also offer end users robust reporting inside of Anaplan.

Likelihood to Recommend

Excellent for FP&A planning, Excellent for Driver based planning, Excellent for Operational planning. Anaplan is a blank space and can handle any planning use case that you could imagine using Excel for. Anaplan also has several options for consolidations including building out a solution in native Anaplan platform or using the dedicated consolidation platform. In addition, Anaplan offers a very robust Excel add-in. I would like to see Anaplan improve in concurrency performance.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it internally for our forecasting & budgeting and we implement it for our clients for a wide range of use-cases, including supply chain, TPM, FP&A, consolidation, pricing, and more, across all industries.

Likelihood to Recommend

Anything finance/FP&A and supply chain. Forecasting and optimization problems are solved very well using Anaplan, as well as use-cases that require a lot of users to work concurrently and/or collaborate on the same data.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Anaplan for a variety of use cases such as Headcount & Expense planning, revenue planning & have future use cases coming. Anaplan solves overall problem of moving business onto a central planning tool

Likelihood to Recommend

Anaplan is excellent for large complex organizations since the tool can scale and is a business friendly technology that can handle complex dynamic use cases

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

My company uses Anaplan to achieve accurate workforce planning and forecasting. As a consultancy, we need to be able to plan for both current and future projects with the ability to move around resources with different skill sets and be adaptable when project extend or end early. This is not only important for staffing, but for also achieving and accurate financial forecast for our company. The flexibility of Anaplan allows our planning to be adaptable and accurate.

Likelihood to Recommend

I've implemented a number of projects for Anaplan for Sales Performance Management use cases. It is obviously built for financial planning, but it allows for a lot of flexibility for territory and quota, ICM, sales forecasting, and other important use cases. Territory and Quota is very powerful in the tool as it organize complex assignment structures into hierarchies for easier analysis and reporting.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Demand Planning, Inventory Planning, Supply Planning

Likelihood to Recommend

Anaplan is great for modelling customised planning process that truly fir the business requirements. Is great for financial planning or demand planning, real time scenario planning, and bottom up planning with automatic data aggregations. Anaplan is a powerful in-memory real-time calculation engine, so it is advisable to load in Anaplan only the data that is truly necessary for the plan and avoid using it as data warehouse.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our organization leverages Anaplan as the primary platform for all Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) functions.

Likelihood to Recommend

Integrated Business Planning (IBP)Organizations needing to link Sales Forecasting directly to Supply Chain Capacity and Financial Outcomes (P&L/Balance Sheet).

Driver-Based Planning & BudgetingCompanies that budget based on operational metrics (drivers) rather than historical spending, such as number of salespeople, customer churn rate, or production hours.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are implementing Anaplan to our customers. Most of the customers usually still rely on excels to do their planning, which there are a lot of silos due to the limitation of excels and computing power of local machine. Anaplan is an excellent platform to help company to streamline planning process in a specific function (e.g. Finance, Supply Chain, HR) by removing silos and providing real-time calculations. Also it enables organization to achieve connected planning in an organization by linking models in different function together on the same platform.

Likelihood to Recommend

I had an implementation on sales planning scenario in a large enterprise selling spirits in China. They have chosen Anaplan as the planning platform to replace the planning process in excel. In order to do budgeting / forecasting on sales, they have to pull all the existing sales contracts from their CRM system and project the sales based on contracts conditions, also planning renewal of the contract.

In the past, excel couldn't handle the large amount of data, where there are more than millions of contracts.

However, Anaplan is an excellent tool for them, thanks to the hyper-block technology, enabling them to perform real-time calculation on top of millions of transaction records.

They can now perform budgeting / forecasting at a more granular level in the past, thus increasing the forecast accuracy in the company.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Anaplan for Financial Planning and Forecasting, which includes 3 Statement Modeling, Workforce Planning, Tax Modeling and Cash Forecasting

Likelihood to Recommend

Anaplan is well suited for enterprise-wide Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) by enabling real-time aggregation of budgets and forecasts from multiple business units and allowing real time scenario modeling for fast executive decision-making. Its collaborative features allow many stakeholders to contribute simultaneously, while built-in audit trails and granular permissions ensure transparency and compliance. Automated integrations with source systems keep data up-to-date, eliminating manual errors, allowing finance teams and executives to analyze financial impacts and streamline reporting processes.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Anaplan for Financial Planning. We are try to do the financial transformation within our organization using Anaplan. Anaplan is helping us standardize our financial reports by brining all the markets under a single screen that was earlier spread out to multiple excel sheets and every excel sheet had their own logic.

Likelihood to Recommend

I think Anaplan is best suited for Financial planning. It is very good is financial reporting and consolidation. Anaplan is also good in Territory and Quota planning . However, in my experience, Anaplan is not very good in designing complex Supply chain planning. It can handle basic Supply chain operations planning and S&OP planning. But if we have to do the route optimization then Anaplan is not very good.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We plan our sales performance and territory management with Anaplan. It has been great and suits our use-case well. We dynamically manage territories and Anaplan has improved our productivity by mostly eliminating our manual workload. We also track the territory potential in a certain market and business, and manage the workload of the reps associated with the territory. We do headcount planning so the coverage is adequate and ROI is maintained. We segment and prioritize accounts based on certain drivers. The sales cycle, which used to take months, has been reduced typically to days. The time to value is great, and they are making a lot of improvements to the product roadmap which we are looking forward to.

Likelihood to Recommend

I would recommend it for any type of planning like Sales, territory management, setting quotas, financial planning and consolidation, supply chain and workforce management. It should not be used for ETL purposes although it could handle some transformation. Integration capabilities need to be enhanced further. ADO solves some of it but it is new and needs to be bi-directional.