Anaplan for CPG & Retail
Anaplan is an ideal option for CPG & Retail organisations, connecting finance, sales and operational plans for accurate, big-picture planning and analysis across the entire business.
As CPG and retail industries get increasingly more competitive, companies need to use data analytics. With Anaplan you can collaborate across all of your plans, budgets, forecasts, and models – with data connected in one system.
Create unlimited dimension lists and hierarchies to represent your business and change them on-the-fly with a simple drag and drop. No coding or batch wait time required with Anaplan’s planning and budgeting app. Plan by any time scale too – day, week, month, or year.
Greater customer focus
By using a combination of consumer insights, external data and your own customer data, CPG and retail organisations can better predict and mobilise against changes to consumption, consumer preferences, channel mix and product demand by postcode.
Complete flexibility
Create plans that truly represent the reality of your business – planning and budgeting for any lever, in any model. With Anaplan, you’re able to create one or multiple revenue or cost models to reflect requirements specific to goods, services, single purchases, exchange rates, and commodity prices.
Scenario planning made easy
By leveraging data insight, CPG and retail organisations can navigate a crisis or take advantage of missed opportunities. Easily adjust operations plans, run ‘what if’ scenarios and recalibrate planning models when business situations change including merchandise planning.
Improved collaboration
Plan and forecast for any revenue or cost type based on product and SKU drivers that matter to your business. Cascade plans top-down by key dimensions (including product and SKU) and build budgets with bottom-up detail to improve collaboration, reduce iterations, and align plan, budget, and forecast.
Anaplan for S&OP unifies various business units to integrate plans from sales, finance, marketing and supply chain.
For retail organisations, Anaplan can help address changing consumer preferences (sustainability, omnichannel vs cross channel, build to order, e-commerce and cost of returns vs opening stores)
Get your planning and budgeting for your CPG or retail organisation developed faster, more accurately, and with less effort. Read our product sheet for more on Anaplan for retail and CPG.
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With certified expertise across all eight functional and industry specialisations, our consultants are considered world-leading experts. This certification recognises our ability to drive high-value transformation and deliver exceptional customer success. We have been recognised as Anaplan EMEA Partner of the Year every year since its inception in 2015.