The Anaplan partner for finance that sees what others can’t
Your numbers are only worth as much as your confidence to act on them.
The gap between the numbers finance produces and the confidence to act on them is where value leaks – slow closes, forecasts no one fully trusts, decisions made on gut. Bedford builds financial planning and analysis on Anaplan that your leaders can rely on, and keeps it right for the full life of the platform.
Every organisation has blind spots. In a couple of minutes, find out where yours are.
Most finance teams don’t have a data problem. They have a confidence problem.
The numbers exist – but they arrive late, live in spreadsheets no one fully trusts, and can’t be tested fast enough to answer the question in the room. So decisions get delayed, or made on instinct, and the cost never shows up as a single line. The job isn’t more data. It’s a plan your leaders trust enough to act on.
Plan, close and report from one connected model
When FP&A, budgeting, consolidation and reporting run off one connected model instead of disconnected spreadsheets, finance can answer the board’s question in the room – not a week later. Bedford builds that model on Anaplan, and makes it work across the whole function.
Your board moves faster than your month-end close.
You need to see performance, test a decision, and give leaders a confident answer before the moment passes. Spreadsheets can’t connect the drivers or model the trade-offs fast enough – so the numbers arrive late, and no one fully trusts them.
Bedford connects revenue, cost, cash and the operational drivers behind them into one real-time view on Anaplan — so finance spends its time on analysis and decisions, not assembling the data.
Across the finance function
One connected model, from budget to board pack.
Financial planning & analysis (FP&A)
Forecast, model and re-plan in real time, not once a quarter.
Budgeting & forecasting
Driver-based plans that flex as the business changes, instead of static spreadsheets.
Scenario modelling
Test the impact of a decision in minutes and walk into the room with the answer.
The future of finance
Improved productivity: Free your team to think. Anaplan removes the manual data collection, validation and spreadsheet management – and the accuracy, version-control and standardisation problems that come with them.
Confident decision making: Anaplan for finance connects data, people, and plans within the finance team and across the enterprise. By using Anaplan for financial planning, you can anticipate performance gaps with greater lead time. You can analyse root causes by drilling down into dimensionally rich financial and operational data.
Greater control: Model multiple scenarios and weigh alternatives fast — so decisions get made, and executed, with confidence.
Finance leaders need to create fast and reliable processes to deliver more robust insight for agile decision-making.
Trade gathering data and error-prone spreadsheets for value-added analysis, collaboration, and confident, data-driven decisions.
Why Bedford
Plenty of partners can build a finance model. Almost none have done it at this depth.
Anaplan’s Preferred Delivery Partner for EMEA
Partner of the Year for eleven consecutive years, certified across all eight Anaplan specialisations since 2011.
Named finance experts, not generalists
Dedicated FP&A and finance SMEs with deep sector knowledge across financial services, manufacturing, CPG & retail and more.
We surface what others miss
Deep planning governance and human judgement on top of the platform — so the drivers of performance, and the risks, get seen early.
We don’t leave at go-live
The same team that implements your supply chain platform keeps optimising it for as long as you want – through Bedford Advantage.
Every engagement is built on Anaplan best practice and measured on tangible ROI – not just a live platform.
Get it right – and keep it right
Finance never stands still. Your Anaplan platform shouldn’t either.
Bedford Advantage is a managed service that keeps your Anaplan platform supported, optimised and aligned to the business across its full lifecycle – Review, Response, Optimise and Enhance – on a predictable quarterly fee. And because we transfer skills to your team at every stage, you build capability, not dependability.
AI is coming to financial planning. We make sure you can trust what it tells you.
Anaplan is embedding AI into planning. In finance, that means AI-influenced forecasts, driver detection and scenario calls. Bedford provides the human intelligence, governance and operating discipline that keep those decisions trusted, explainable and defensible – to the board and the auditors.
