Anaplan for Supply Chain

A resilient supply chain should be your competitive advantage in today’s dynamic environment. Deliver actionable insights across planning for supply, demand and sales and operations (S&OP) with Anaplan’s supply chain software.

Planning has become more important than ever. With changing market demands, speed is essential.

You need to make timely, value-based decisions, to respond quickly to shifts in demand and customer needs. Spreadsheets just lack the processing power and the ability to scale. With Anaplan you spend less time gathering data and more time making decisions and communicating.

Anaplan takes a holistic approach to supply chain management enabling real-time, visibility across the network, creating the ability to sense and drive demand, and facilitating a dynamic, collaborative S&OP process.

  • Achieve real-time line of sight across the entire supply chain

  • Identify patterns and signals based on a single source of truth

  • Leverage internal and external data to meet and exceed customer’s demands

  • Leverage AI, machine learning and advanced algorithms to improve forecasting accuracy

  • Optimise safety stock levels while minimising costs

  • Identify drivers of change and discover fresh perspectives on the organisation

Anaplan for Supply Chain: S&OP, supply and demand planning

Anaplan for supply chain planning

Whilst seemingly simple, solving the supply challenge isn’t always easy. The Anaplan platform gives you real-time, end-to-end visibility including dynamic ‘what if’ scenario planning to ensure accurate supply forecasting across your entire network. Collaborate with all relevant parties, including customers to achieve your business goals.

  • Inventory optimisation allows you to know where to store inventory along the supply chain to lower prices and increase efficiency.

  • Anaplan Optimizer brings all variables into the equation, including service levels, lead time, changes in demand, customer commitments, and supply reliability to show supply chain professionals exactly how much inventory to have at each location to meet the customer’s required service levels.

Bedford Anaplan S&OP Distribution Inventory Operations

Anaplan for demand planning

Enables you to sense and drive demand instead of being reactive to the market. Have the confidence to adjust plans to meet sudden spikes in demand and make decisions at the speed of the market. With a cloud-based demand planning platform, you will have a clear view of all relevant internal and external factors so you can steer clear of out-of-stock situations or excess inventory and wasted capital.

“The recent business disruptions have proved our ability to plan. Instead of spending 90% of our time crunching the numbers and 10 % running around in a panic, deciding what to do. We could spend 90% of our time action planning and communicating.”

Matthew Shoard, Casella Family brands

Bedford Anaplan S&OP Demand Scenarios
  • Adjust promotion models within real-time data to create flexible models and calculations.

  • Seamlessly collaborate with customers and distributors to create accurate demand forecasts and budgets for new product launches.

  • Easily adjust models and calculations as the market changes or the unexpected occurs.

Anaplan for S&OP

With Anaplan, 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, business leaders can make better-informed decisions that maximise profitability.

  • The Anaplan platform can run a variety of scenarios, from more tactical “what-if” questions to long-term scenarios.

  • Run simple scenarios, such as inventory or workforce re-balancing, and more complex scenarios, such as onboarding a new supplier.

It enables you to reduce risk and understand the pros and cons of a wide range of adjustments.

Say goodbye to static, linear decision-making tools and hello to a dynamic platform that gives you actionable insight.
Bedford Anaplan Mobile Demand Scenario

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Why Bedford Consulting?

  • We’re Anaplan experts – partners since 2011 with certified expertise in all eight specialisations, we are Anaplan’s Preferred Delivery Partner for EMEA. We know Anaplan inside out.

  • Significant project experience – we’ve written many RFPs and business cases across all industries and use cases. We will guide you through the process with our unique checklist.

  • Extensive experience in operational excellence – we’ve delivered implementations across all industries in finance, supply chain, sales and operational planning teams within some of the world’s largest companies.
  • Successful delivery – we partner with your team to implement (or expand) Anaplan using a tried and tested agile methodology and ensure that there is skills transfer at every stage.

  • We deliver results – we implement solutions that are based on industry best practice and align to your overall business strategy and objectives and deliver tangible ROI.

  • Expert knowledge transfer – as a fully certified Solution Advisory & Delivery partner, we have deep domain expertise, knowledge and best practices.
  • We focus on your success – we help you reach your growth and operational potential, collaborate, solve challenges, and empower decision-makers to make agile and data-driven decisions.

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