Real time calculations and collaboration to plan your ever-changing Supply Chain
October 14, 2024

Real time calculations and collaboration to plan your ever-changing Supply Chain

Alejandro Gomez Sanchez | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Anaplan

Demand Forecasting (combining data driven statistical forecasting and collaborative forecasting to reconcile the view from Sales and Operations team), Inventory Management (stock on hand, in transit, open orders and need for replenishment), MRP using BOM for the expected orders, Production scheduling (using Optimiser) and suppliers constraint. Alerts and Data visualisation to plan by exceptions where attention is needed as signal from Demand or Supply changes.

Pros

  • Scenario Planning
  • Customised and Friendly UX
  • Customised and powerful data calculations
  • Customised planning process supported by Workflow
  • Enablement
  • Real time calculations and Real tine user collaboration

Cons

  • AI - suggested Data Tables or Reports based on the loaded data
  • AI - LLM Chat GPT alike interface where you can ask about your data
  • UX - enhancements like drag & drop charts (gant charts that users can slide sidewise...)
  • today function for system generated timestamps
  • Time reduction in data collection, spreadsheet maintenance or report creation
  • Time savings in auditing and validation your reported numbers
  • Time savings in new scenario creation and scenario comparison
  • Time savings handling large data sets compared to spreadhseets
It is easy to model the back end thanks to its excel-alike formulas and included on-demand trainings, and even easier to create your own reports (pages) with its drag and drop page and report creating.

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 was born as financial planning solution, any FP&A requirements will be brilliantly solved by Anaplan. Outstanding in Workforce planning, easily integrated with the FP&A, allocating costs to different cost centres and CoA items.
Brilliant Supply Chain solutions thanks to the capacity to model your own planning process, connecting Demand and Sales teams with Warehouses and Inventory Teams and Supply and production teams regardless whether or not they are part of the same entity ot different organisations. Being cloud and collaborative, data is updated and recalculated in real time to improve the flow of information and easily reconciling your plans with the actual flow of goods.

Anaplan Feature Ratings

9.8
Long-term financial planning
10
Financial budgeting
10
Forecasting
9
Scenario modeling
10
Management reporting
10
9.5
Financial data consolidation
10
Journal entries and reports
9
Local and consolidated reporting
10
Detailed Audit Trails
9
9.7
Financial Statement Reporting
10
Management Reporting
10
Excel-based Reporting
9
9.5
Personalized dashboards
10
Color-coded scorecards
8
Cost and profitability analysis
10
Key Performance Indicator setting
10
9.3
Flat file integration
10
Excel data integration
10
Direct links to 3rd-party data sources
8
10.0
Customizable dashboards
10
Ad-hoc Reporting ()
Not Rated
10.0
Publish to PDF
10
Report Versioning
10
Data Discovery and Visualization ()
Not Rated
10.0
Role-Based Security Model
10
Report-Level Access Control
10
7.0
Responsive Design for Web Access
9
Mobile Application
6
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
6

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