Optimise your supply chain with Anaplan’s advanced supply chain planning capabilities

Empowering senior supply chain leaders to overcome challenges and drive efficiency

As a senior supply chain leader, you face a myriad of challenges that demand efficient solutions for successful supply chain planning and management. Gain end-to-end visibility, balance demand and supply, foster collaboration, plan for resilience, and drive sustainability. With advanced features and tailored solutions, Anaplan is the key to optimising your supply chain, achieving efficiency, and driving success.

Why supply chain leaders choose Anaplan: improve forecast accuracy and plan for the unexpected

Seize the opportunity to transform your supply chain with Anaplan. We know supply chains are dynamic, and real-time visibility is crucial. Anaplan’s ability to provide real-time data analysis can enable quicker, data-driven decision-making.

Anaplan gives you the ability to manage complex, multi-tier supply chains, improve forecast accuracy, and enhance collaboration on a user-friendly and reliable platform.

Say goodbye to manual supply chain planning using spreadsheets and embrace a more efficient, data-driven approach with Anaplan.

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Anaplan gives you real-time visibility into your entire supply chain, from raw materials to end customers. Identify bottlenecks and proactively respond to potential disruptions with ease.
End-to-end visibility ensures that decisions are grounded in historic insights while retaining the flexibility to anticipate future market challenges, creating a supply chain that’s both strategic and agile.
Optimise inventory levels and enhance demand forecasting accuracy to reduce costs and improve customer satisfaction.
Leverage advanced analytics to significantly improve demand forecasting accuracy, ensuring inventory optimisation and reduced stockouts. Gain real-time visibility into demand patterns and fluctuations.
Anaplan helps you gain visibility into market movements and customer demand, at a segment level, forecast your customer’s demand outside-in, and shape your decisions to meet customer expectations.
By leveraging external and internal data, incorporating historical data as well as predictive analytics, and conducting dynamic scenario planning, you can deliver improved business performance.
Achieve the delicate balance between meeting customer demands and maintaining efficient inventory levels. Holding excess inventory can be costly, while having too little can disrupt operations.
With Anaplan, you can align demand and supply planning to optimise your supply chain, ensure smooth operations, and minimise disruptions. Easily introduce new products or phase out old ones, integrate your product lifecycle management with supply chain planning.
Use PlanIQ and AI/ML capabilities to forecast accurately and simulate changes to forecast drivers. Sense demand using forward looking internal and external drivers with exceptions management to uncover demand patterns.
Foster collaboration across teams and stakeholders within your supply chain eco-system. Anaplan serves as a centralised hub for seamless data exchange. It enables simultaneous, real-time planning, allowing you to collaborate and make agile, data-driven decisions.
Understand the potential cost and impact of future actions and comparison to targets. Determine when to take action, and what risks or uncertainties exist to impact business outcomes.
Utilise the continuous feedback loop among teams, to help refine and adjust plans as new information becomes available, creating an iterative process and continuous improvement.
Seamlessly manage multiple suppliers, production centres, and distribution channels. Leverage real-time data insights and analytics to make informed decisions that drive supply chain optimisation and efficiency across all tiers.
By having end to end visibility of the supply chain, you can view interdependencies, potential bottle necks and inefficiencies.
Anaplan facilitates collaborative planning, allowing teams to synchronise their efforts, forecast demands and adjust strategies proactively, ensuring timely deliveries and maximising cost efficiencies.
Anaplan facilitates seamless collaboration with suppliers and offers the ability for assessing and mitigating supplier risks, especially in today’s globalised economy where disruptions in one region can have cascading effects worldwide.
Anticipate and proactively respond to potential supply chain disruptions with Anaplan’s advanced scenario planning. Use Anaplan to create sophisticated models that reflect the complexities of your supply chain network. Evaluate various “what-if” scenarios to devise robust contingency plans and ensure business continuity.
For multinational supply chains, navigating customs, duties, and trade regulations is complex. Anaplan helps manage and stay compliant with these regulations, especially in the context of changing trade agreements.
ESG planning involves connecting data and costs from all your third parties across the chain to pinpoint openings to reduce waste, risk, and price to remain competitive. Use Anaplan to embed sustainability principles into your supply chain planning process.
From effective strategy development and implementation, scenario-based risk management, as well as monitoring and reporting, ensuring compliance with industry regulations and meeting ESG goals.
Anaplan’s real-time integration with other existing systems like ERP or logistics management systems, ensures that decisions are based on the most recent and complete data.
And, as your supply chain expands, Anaplan offers unmatched scalability and flexibility to adapt to changing supply chain dynamics. Being cloud-based, Anaplan facilitates global collaboration and eases scalability without heavy hardware investments.
Choose from a catalogue of over 30 pre-built apps to leverage best practice templates for end-to-end supply, demand, and S&OP solutions. Alerts and exception management allow users to focus and collaborate on the metrics that matter.
Anaplan provides stringent data security and compliance measures such as end-to-end encryption, comprehensive access controls, and compliance with international standards like GDPR, HIPAA, and SOC 2 Type II, providing you with a secure and trustworthy platform for managing your complex supply chain planning and data analysis needs.
Anaplan security offerings include self-service SAML (SS SAML) to simplify single sign on (SSO) and central identity management (CIM) to streamline user management, all within a centralised administration console.
Anaplan ensures that end-users can easily access Anaplan while providing security administrators with unified management and control.

As an official accredited Anaplan Partner, we provide expert guidance throughout your supply chain planning journey. We know Anaplan inside out.

As with any large system, it can do so much more than meets the eye. As an experienced partner, we can educate your team on all the product functionality to optimise your software experience.

Benefit from our significant project experience, best practices, and domain expertise, ensuring a successful implementation and optimisation of Anaplan’s solutions.

We offer a full range of options, so check out our services pages to explore how we can assist you, or book a consultation with one of our planning experts.

Anaplan is an ideal solution if your organisation operates a complex, multi-tier supply chain that spans multiple geographies. It can help model, visualise, and manage those complexities effectively, balance demand and supply, improve forecast accuracy and enable real-time data analysis, making it a crucial to your organisation.

As an official accredited Anaplan Partner, Bedford Consulting provides expert guidance throughout your supply chain planning journey. Benefit from our significant project experience, best practices, and domain expertise, ensuring a successful implementation and optimisation of Anaplan’s solutions.

Partner with Anaplan and Bedford to embark on a journey towards supply chain management excellence. Contact us today to schedule a demo and learn how Anaplan can transform your supply chain operations.

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Lintbells Home Of YuMove Bedford Anaplan Customer
“Anaplan will revolutionise the way in which our demand forecasting operates, giving us total control over the levers to pull to support our customers and partners in delivering the best offering for consumers.”
Michael Collins, Head of Planning, Lintbells
Mole Valley Farmers Bedford Customer Logo
“In an ever-changing economic environment, our traditional planning methods were not viable. To support our success and sustainability we need an agile approach to reforecasting based on a wide range of factors that affect the business.”
Karen Whitren, Retail Financial Controller, Mole Valley Farmers
Huel Anaplan Bedford Customer Logo
“Our team currently spend 60% of their time planning in spreadsheets, utilising Anaplan for demand, supply, material and production planning will enable us to save a huge amount of time and allow for analysis of the data and more accurate planning.”
Daniel Plimmer, Supply Chain Director, Huel
Go Outdoors Bedford Consulting Customer
“Anaplan has helped us gain consistency across all teams when range planning. Modules can be used by multiple users at the same time without slowing down the process – a big improvement from using shared Excel files. The Bedford team have been so helpful in adjusting the model to suit our changing needs.”
Helen Crebbin, Merchandise Controller, Go Outdoors

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