Anaplan for Manufacturing
Anaplan supports manufacturing companies to streamline operations, improve efficiency, and make data-driven decisions with integrated FP&A, supply chain planning, production planning, demand planning, and sales & operations planning (S&OP).
For manufacturing companies, achieving new business models requires new, connected business capabilities to change how leaders plan their end-to-end product development, production, commercial, and fulfilment activities. Anaplan helps to deliver fast, accurate forecasts, despite extreme variability and helps manufacturing organisations use their data in a more strategic and organised way.
It also provides real-time visibility into supply chain performance, enabling manufacturers to quickly respond to changes in demand, production, or supply chain disruptions. Additionally, Anaplan allows for collaboration between different departments and teams, ensuring that everyone is working from a single source of truth.
Planning agility
Quickly determine how to allocate employees, materials, and production capacity through a multi-dimensional, attribute-based planning process. Automation features help detect and manage errors, making their impacts less prevalent compared to using traditional spreadsheets and the limited financial planning they allow.
Greater collaboration
A modern supply chain that is dynamic, interconnected, and integrates demand patterns and trading partners conveniently for maximum efficiency. By increasing demand forecast accuracy, manufacturers can increase confidence in top-line revenue projections, material purchase requirements, operating expense, and capital investments.
What-if analysis
Optimise performance by measuring, monitoring, and understanding root causes to support 'what-if' analysis and make production plan changes in real-time. Link plans across the business to master market volatility by acting collaboratively, developing multiple scenarios, and responding rapidly and confidently.
Workforce planning
Optimise your workforce and ensure that the right skill sets are available and where they are needed most. Connect labour costs to product or service costs, optimise pay rules for your hourly workforce, track productivity levels across teams to identify best practice and more.
Anaplan provides real-time visibility into demand and supply chain performance, enabling manufacturers to identify bottlenecks, optimise processes, quickly respond to changes and minimise disruptions.
Leverage demand planning capabilities, to improve the accuracy of demand forecasts, reducing the risk of overstocking or stock shortages. Integrated demand management, which blends sales and finance functions with improvements in supply chain, creates a path forward for companies to achieve new levels of transparency, collaboration, and ultimately business performance, enabling them to face market challenges with new levels of agility and resilience.
Get planning and budgeting for your manufacturing organisation faster, more accurately, and with less effort.
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