Anaplan for supply chain – see what others can’t
The risks in your supply chain plan are the ones hiding in plain sight
Disconnected demand, supply and S&OP planning hides risk and leaves value on the table. Bedford surfaces what your supply chain plan isn’t telling you – and keeps finding it across the full life of your Anaplan platform, from implementation through optimisation.
Every organisation has blind spots. In a couple of minutes, find out where yours are.
Most supply chain risk isn’t a data problem. It’s a visibility problem.
When demand, supply and S&OP planning live in disconnected models, the warning signs are there – a margin risk masked across regions, conflicting assumptions, a demand shift no one flagged in time – but no one can see them until they’ve cost something. Day-rate firefighting fixes the symptom after the fact. The value is in surfacing it before it lands.
Plan demand, supply and S&OP in one connected model
When demand, supply and S&OP run off one connected model instead of disconnected spreadsheets, you can see risk and opportunity while there’s still time to act. Bedford builds that model on Anaplan – and makes it work across your whole operation.
Your market moves faster than a monthly planning cycle.
You need to make timely, value-based decisions and respond to shifts in demand before they hit service or margin. Spreadsheets can’t sense those shifts or weigh the trade-offs fast enough, so the signals sit unseen until they’ve already cost something.
Bedford connects demand, supply, inventory and finance into one real-time view on Anaplan – so your team can sense and shape demand, test scenarios in minutes, and run a genuinely collaborative S&OP process from a single source of truth.
Enterprise-ready: real-time integration with your ERP and logistics systems, 30+ pre-built Anaplan apps, and enterprise-grade security (SAML/SSO, end-to-end encryption).
Across the whole operation
One connected view of demand, supply and everything in between.
Demand planning
Sense and forecast demand you can act on, and spot shifts before they hit service or margin.
Supply & inventory planning
Balance supply, capacity and inventory against real demand, not last quarter’s assumptions.
Sales & operations planning
A faster, connected S&OP cycle where finance, commercial and operations plan off one source of truth.
Cost to serve
See the true profitability of products, customers and channels, and act on it.
New product introductions (NPI)
Plan launches with the supply, demand and financial picture in one place.
Supply & inventory planning
Know what to hold – and exactly where
Balancing supply, capacity and inventory against real demand is where margin quietly leaks. Bedford builds real-time, end-to-end visibility on Anaplan – with dynamic ‘what-if’ scenario planning across your whole network – so you hold the right stock in the right place, and can weigh the trade-offs before you commit to them.
Demand planning
Sense demand before it shifts
Eeact to the market a month late and you’re already paying for it – in stockouts or in excess. Bedford connects internal and external signals into one demand planning view on Anaplan, so you can sense and shape demand, adjust to sudden spikes, and steer clear of both empty shelves 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.”
Sales & operations planning (S&OP)
An S&OP process that actually decides
S&OP too often ends as a reporting cycle rather than a decision. Bedford unifies sales, finance, product, marketing and supply chain on one connected model, so every scenario carries its financial and service impact – and your S&OP meeting becomes a forum that makes calls, not one that reviews slides.
Trade static, backward-looking reporting for a live view you can act on.
Why Bedford
Plenty of partners can build a supply chain model. Almost none have done it at this depth.
First-in-market SCM Applications
The largest live Anaplan Applications practice in EMEA, including the first SCM Application deliveries in several markets — one delivered in six weeks.
A named supply chain expert, not a generalist
Dedicated supply chain and S&OP SMEs with deep sector knowledge in manufacturing, CPG & retail, life sciences and transport & logistics.
We surface what others miss
Deep planning governance and human judgement on top of the platform – so hidden risks, conflicting assumptions and value leakage get caught.
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
Supply chains change constantly. Your Anaplan platform should keep up.
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. For a supply chain plan, that means it keeps pace with new products, new regions, new constraints and new risks, instead of drifting the moment go-live is over, and because we transfer skills to your team at every stage, you build capability, not dependability.
AI is coming to supply chain planning. We make sure you can trust what it recommends.
Anaplan is embedding AI into planning. In supply chain, that means AI-influenced demand signals, replenishment and scenario calls. Bedford provides the human intelligence, governance and operating discipline that keep those decisions trusted, explainable and actionable.
We get all three right before the AI features event land. This is what Optimise, inside Bedford Advantage, is for.
