Anaplan is the best platform for S&OP in the market
May 29, 2023

Anaplan is the best platform for S&OP in the market

AMIT CHAVAN | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review

Overall Satisfaction with Anaplan

Anaplan is relatively low cost platform which provided business a quick ROI.I am using Anaplan since year 2015 and switched my career to consulting, before year 2015 I used to work as a Head of Production Planning and Logistics for one of the Tata Group entity. I was responsible for end to end supply chain, production planning , distribution planning , after market and logistics planning. It was very difficult for me to do planning, budgeting, supply chain provisions in excel spread sheets at granular level of details, considering huge count of SKU's I was not able to create detailed rough cut /short term planning at product or product-customer level, because of which I always faced challenges while planning plant capacity, planning constraint based production etc. It was always difficult for me to commit production / distribution to sales team, impact on inventory carrying cost.From 2015 I have started using Anaplan and I implemented many end to end Anaplan models in the field of Production planning, inventory planning , capacity planning, S&OP, demand planning, supply planning for multiple global customers and I really can see my clients taking huge benefit out of Anaplan in terms of profitability or cost reduction. With proper planning process company can decide their strategy to make business more profitable.
  • Pre built stat forecast model
  • Budgeting and planning
  • Optimization
  • In Memory calculations
  • In memory calculations
  • Web based platform
  • No negative impact but all positive impact for all clients whoever have implemented Anaplan. It resulted in planning cycle reduced drastically, decisions are taken well in advance, increased profitability.

Do you think Anaplan delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Anaplan's feature set?

Yes

Did Anaplan live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Anaplan go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Anaplan again?

Yes

Anaplan is a very good platform for demand planning, supply planning, consensus demand planning and inventory planning and S&OP.

The biggest benefit of Anaplan is it helps to connect finance and supply chain planning on a single platform and it is highly customizable.

Anaplan Feature Ratings

Long-term financial planning
10
Financial budgeting
10
Forecasting
10
Scenario modeling
10
Management reporting
10
Financial data consolidation
10
Journal entries and reports
10
Local and consolidated reporting
9
Detailed Audit Trails
10
Financial Statement Reporting
10
Management Reporting
10
Excel-based Reporting
8
Personalized dashboards
10
Color-coded scorecards
10
Cost and profitability analysis
10
Key Performance Indicator setting
10
Flat file integration
10
Excel data integration
10
Direct links to 3rd-party data sources
10
Customizable dashboards
9
Publish to PDF
9
Report Versioning
10
Role-Based Security Model
10
Report-Level Access Control
10
Responsive Design for Web Access
10
Mobile Application
10
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
10