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Ready for AI clinic?
If an AI agent changed your forecast tonight, would your planning team know by morning? Spend 20 minutes with a Bedford expert on the five governance questions to answer before AI agents arrive in your...
Meet the Team - Lucia Sibley
Welcome to our latest meet the team blog Meet Lucia Sibley, Senior Marketing Executive, who has worked at before for over 4 years. During this time, I have grown our social media following by 84%...
Planning time log template
Gathering and checking data outside Anaplan takes hours that rarely show up anywhere. Use Bedford’s free planning time log for one week to see how your planners’ time splits, and where to look first.
Reading the production line: why manufacturing planning is a time horizon problem
Industrial manufacturers often have visibility of today’s production schedule, but the real challenge is understanding how customer demand, supplier lead times, material availability and capacity constraints will affect what happens next. This article explores why...
Building stronger foundations: planning architecture for industrial manufacturers
Industrial manufacturing depends on more than systems that work in isolation. This article explores why strong systems architecture helps manufacturers connect demand, capacity, production, inventory and finance, giving teams the visibility and governance needed to...
Planning adoption on the factory floor: why go-live is where the value starts
Implementation is only the beginning. For industrial manufacturers, real planning value comes when teams adopt the platform, move away from disconnected spreadsheets and scale connected planning across production, finance, supply chain and operations.
AI will not fix weak planning foundations. It will expose them.
As AI moves from hype to delivery, planning teams need clear model logic, trusted data lineage, reviewed assumptions and defined decision rights before automation can create real value.
The difference between talking about AI and really using it
Every consultancy has an AI point of view. Every software vendor has an AI roadmap. Every conference agenda is full of agents, copilots and transformation. The problem is that too much of the conversation still...
Brentford FC chooses Bedford to help it see the game a move ahead
Brentford FC has selected Bedford Consulting to deliver a connected Anaplan solution that brings together financial planning, scenario modelling and reporting. From player and staff costs to cash flow, P&L and KPIs, the partnership will...
Most CPG businesses don’t have a visibility problem, they have a planning problem
Many CPG organisations believe they have a visibility problem, but the real challenge is often planning alignment. This article explores why fragmented data, disconnected teams and static forecasts make it harder to respond to demand...
