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Agile, Scalable and on-the-go planning
What do you like best about the product?
Multi-dimensionality and scalability results in error free planning.
Easy to implement and maintain
With improvements in REST APIs, lots of integration options with other systems
Real-time visibility on the go
Collaboration with other users within the app
Mobile app that enhances on the go planning
Easy to implement and maintain
With improvements in REST APIs, lots of integration options with other systems
Real-time visibility on the go
Collaboration with other users within the app
Mobile app that enhances on the go planning
What do you dislike about the product?
Recently the cost of the tool has increased, but it is still preferable because of the value proposition it brings.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Error-free and a streamlined way of assigning accounts to territories. Manage territories dynamically.
Adjust/move geographies (postal codes) within Territories among different businesses.
Assign and maintain territory/geography owners within each business.
Manage indexes on each territory.
Help determine the compensation of each rep using an Audit trail.
Setup OP process among each market and submodality.
Adjust/move geographies (postal codes) within Territories among different businesses.
Assign and maintain territory/geography owners within each business.
Manage indexes on each territory.
Help determine the compensation of each rep using an Audit trail.
Setup OP process among each market and submodality.
FP&A Director /Master Anaplanner
What do you like best about the product?
What I love most about Anaplan is how versatile it is. Anaplan is used by a varietey of different industries for multiple use cases because of this. The ability to connect different functions and departments into Anaplan to develop a consolidated forecast that is unique to each funcitons needs is a game changer.
What do you dislike about the product?
While the interconnectivity is great, you need to be careful when making system changes that it is not having unintentional effects.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Interconnect forecasting
Anaplan Architecture and Functionality from a Model Builder Viewpoint
What do you like best about the product?
From a model builder’s perspective, what I like best about Anaplan is its flexibility and the control it provides over building complex planning models without needing traditional coding skills. The platform’s intuitive interface allows me to design and customize models that fit unique business requirements, combining data from multiple sources into a single, connected planning environment.
Anaplan’s in-memory engine is powerful and supports real-time calculations, which means changes in one part of the model immediately update all related calculations. This instant feedback is invaluable for testing scenarios and ensuring data accuracy. The drag-and-drop functionality and modular structure make it easy to organize data and logic logically, improving maintainability and scalability.
Another key advantage is the ability to create reusable components like lists, modules, and line items, which saves time and helps maintain consistency across models. The platform also encourages collaboration by allowing multiple users to work on the same model simultaneously, with role-based access controls ensuring data security.
While there is a learning curve, especially with complex formula building and model optimization, the extensive community support and training resources make it manageable. Overall, Anaplan empowers model builders to deliver agile, robust planning solutions that can quickly adapt to changing business needs, which is highly rewarding.
Anaplan’s in-memory engine is powerful and supports real-time calculations, which means changes in one part of the model immediately update all related calculations. This instant feedback is invaluable for testing scenarios and ensuring data accuracy. The drag-and-drop functionality and modular structure make it easy to organize data and logic logically, improving maintainability and scalability.
Another key advantage is the ability to create reusable components like lists, modules, and line items, which saves time and helps maintain consistency across models. The platform also encourages collaboration by allowing multiple users to work on the same model simultaneously, with role-based access controls ensuring data security.
While there is a learning curve, especially with complex formula building and model optimization, the extensive community support and training resources make it manageable. Overall, Anaplan empowers model builders to deliver agile, robust planning solutions that can quickly adapt to changing business needs, which is highly rewarding.
What do you dislike about the product?
What I don’t like about Anaplan is the performance slowdown when working with large or highly complex models. As the size of the model grows—especially with millions of cells, multiple dimensions, or intricate formula logic—calculations can take much longer to complete. This lag impacts day-to-day usability, causing delays when entering data, refreshing dashboards, or running scenario analyses. This becomes more noticeable when multiple users are collaborating simultaneously, sometimes leading to timeouts or frustration during critical planning cycles.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use Anaplan to streamline our Master Production Scheduling (MPS) and Material Requirements Planning (MRP) processes for a CPG (Consumer Packaged Goods) client. Before Anaplan, the client struggled with disconnected Excel-based planning, limited visibility across supply and demand, and frequent stockouts or overproduction.
Anaplan helped centralize and automate their planning process. The MPS model enabled planners to balance supply with demand using real-time data, while the MRP model calculated material requirements based on production plans, inventory levels, and lead times. This helped reduce excess inventory and improved service levels.
The scope of the project included demand inputs, inventory planning, BOM explosion, capacity checks, and purchase planning across multiple manufacturing locations. With Anaplan, the client achieved better visibility, faster planning cycles, and improved decision-making. It also allowed cross-functional collaboration between supply planners, procurement, and production teams.
Overall, Anaplan addressed key business challenges like manual errors, siloed data, and lack of agility in supply planning—resulting in a more resilient and responsive supply chain.
Anaplan helped centralize and automate their planning process. The MPS model enabled planners to balance supply with demand using real-time data, while the MRP model calculated material requirements based on production plans, inventory levels, and lead times. This helped reduce excess inventory and improved service levels.
The scope of the project included demand inputs, inventory planning, BOM explosion, capacity checks, and purchase planning across multiple manufacturing locations. With Anaplan, the client achieved better visibility, faster planning cycles, and improved decision-making. It also allowed cross-functional collaboration between supply planners, procurement, and production teams.
Overall, Anaplan addressed key business challenges like manual errors, siloed data, and lack of agility in supply planning—resulting in a more resilient and responsive supply chain.
User friendly, business owned cross functional planning tool
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to learn and implement to exact business requirements, UX is clean looking and offers multiple ways to visualize; easy to integrate with ERPs and other data sources
What do you dislike about the product?
Have to be intentional with what you want to implement as it is fully custom; need to dedicate time to learning
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Ease of allowing multiple users to enter forecasts in to one central location, of which aggregations happen naturally and calculations immediately work.
Fulfilling career as an Anaplan Model Builder
What do you like best about the product?
I like that Anaplan is a massive upgrade relative to other tools (like Microsoft Excel) in terms of empowering users to drive connected forecasting and planning. There are so many features that make this empowerment possible, such as version control, real time calculation updates, and dynamic cell access.
What do you dislike about the product?
When an Anaplan Model Builder attempts to implement a formula that is invalid, sometimes, this results in the Anaplan model locking up (or "toasting") for a period of time that ranges from seconds to minutes (depending on the size and complexity of the model) while the model processes and reverts the change. During this "toaster" period, no one, including Model Builders and users, can navigate or make changes in the model - This is extremely disruptive.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Through Anaplan's Application Lifecycle Management functionality, I can Model Build in an existing Anaplan model without disrupting users' working in the Production model. Thanks to Anaplan's Hyberblock technology, I can build models containing data and calculations that far exceed anything I can build in other tools in terms of size and calculation complexity. Due to the ability to build and manage Anaplan models without help from a typical Information Technology (IT) team, I'm empowered to develop solutions for our users with minimal overhead or reliance from non-business teams.
How to increase data security by eliminating spreadsheets while breaking down silos
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan's security via self services, single sign on and central identify management allows planning teams to stop sending risky emails with attachments and to plan and review via dashboards. By leveraging Anaplan, a centralized planning tool, the forecasting teams standardize processes, democratizes data via transparent data values and as a result breaks down silos.
What do you dislike about the product?
Anaplan is currently not an out of the box solution, so implenting it requires dedication from the business. The Anaplan way, and working with partners helps organizations positvely transform their planning process, but in the end the buisness has to commit and invest in change.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan is providing transparency from start to finish in the planning process. During C-Suite reviews, if anyone asks: "where does that value come from" the presentor can drill down into the value. When previously preparing for C-Suite reviews, different parts of the organization may have calculated the same metrics with different logic or inputs, Anaplan forces the organization to provide transparency, alignment, and standardization where applicable to that planning process.
Anaplan is so impressive that I decided to make designing and working in it the focus of my career.
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is incredible at facilitating and coordinating any type of planning cycle. What I like most about it is that it's constantly being updated and improved upon.
What do you dislike about the product?
One downside of Anaplan is to truly get the most out of it you do still need to work with an experienced consultant. You can go at it on your own, but an experienced solution architect will enable your organization to reap the most value out of it as quickly as possible.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan has allowed me to help many companies better coordinate and expedite their monthly, quarterly and annual financial planning cycles. I've often seen these processes done almost exclusively in Excel, which can be incredibly cumbersome, inefficient, prone to human error, and difficult to audit. Anaplan helps solve for this by providing an easy-to-use interface, connected planning modules, and security and tracking around the input and approval process.
Anaplan for Alternative Investments
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan's flexible model building platform allows users to create very unique models to handle a myriad of use cases in the alternative investments space, including carry calculations, carry allocation, fund modeling and more. The platform is easy to implement given that the formulas mirror excel.
What do you dislike about the product?
Anaplan does not have a very robust workflow management functionality.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anaplan gets companies out of excel and into a model with auditability functions and application lifecycle management.
Highly Recommend for Finance, HR and Supply Chain Planning
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is a very powerful modeling engine. It can handle large loads of data crossing multiple dimensions and calculate them in real time. It's highly scalable and very robust
What do you dislike about the product?
The biggest struggle with Anaplan has been their slow implementation of a fully functional new UX. I agree with their decision to replace the old interface, but it took several years for the new UX to get to a point where it seemed acceptable for an enterprise tool. There are still a few quirks here and there, but it is by and large a great UX.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The ability to connect data across the organization allows for very powerful planning capabilities. What Anaplan calls "Connected Planning", allows for a holistic solution to all aspects of planning. This means you're not using disparate systems, spreadsheets, emails across departments. You have instant access to a 'source of truth' that everyone is sharing and working off of together.
Anaplan, the flexible calculation engine
What do you like best about the product?
Anaplan is able to calculate millions and millions of data points in seconds, while still providing a great amount of flexbility.
What do you dislike about the product?
Anaplan is not at a point where it can be used as a reporting tool, and still sometimes requires the use of another software for specific reporting requirements.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I'm able to set up models in a way that scenarios can easily be added in order to create multiple forecasts.
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