Anaplan for Sales and Operations Planning
Empowering dynamic, value-based S&OP
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Make the best possible S&OP
decisions with unified, accurate data
When executives are faced with complex, high-impact decisions, they can’t afford to use inconsistent or unreliable data to make key business plans.
With Anaplan, sales and operations planning (S&OP) is unified across all relevant business units into one cloud-based, connected platform. When plans and data from sales, finance, product, marketing, and supply chain work in sync, executives can make better-informed decisions that maximize profitability.
- Align decisions across departments in one easy-to-use collaborative platform
- Increase service levels and the accuracy of plans by better collaborating with customers and suppliers
- Optimize product innovation scenarios by accessing and coordinating launch plans for maximum profitability
- Increase productivity with improved processes, more flexible modeling, and a better user interface
Scenario planning
The power to ask “what if” in the S&OP process is mighty when you use the Anaplan platform. Anaplan can run a variety of scenarios, from more tactical “what if” questions to long-term scenarios. In the end, the objective remains the same: to reduce risk and understand the pros and cons of a wide range of adjustments.
For example, you can run simple scenarios like inventory or workforce re-balancing, and more complex scenarios such as onboarding a new supplier. And with Connected Planning, supply chain, finance, and any other relevant plans are linked so the impact of decisions on every part of the business is clear.
- Create, share, and compare scenarios across the business
- See the effects of adding products, changing manufacturers, and altering routes
- Use change history, annotations, and assumption tracking
Planning and collaboration
- A secure, cloud-based environment enables cross-enterprise collaboration
- Leverage real-time planning changes and recalculations without waiting for batch processing
- Multi-region and multi-currency support
- Change history of all plan updates for auditability
Reporting and performance management
- Executive dashboards enable timely, value-based decisions
- Define and manage process performance KPIs
- Interactive reporting and analysis on plans, KPIs, and actuals
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