Bedford Professional Services

We’ve developed great relationships with our customers over many years and have helped hundreds develop and adapt planning models as their businesses change.

Maximising value from your Anaplan platform. As your business evolves to meet client and market needs, it’s important that your Anaplan platform evolves with your organisation to deliver maximum value. Our world-class consultants have deep domain expertise and know Anaplan inside and out. We realise that each customer’s business needs are unique, so we offer a range of options to help you make the most of your investment.

Bedford Advantage

Anaplan platforms drift without the right partnership. Bedford Advantage is the partnership that stops that happening. A managed service designed to keep your Anaplan platform supported, optimised and aligned to your business, wherever you are on your journey, for a predictable quarterly fee.

Bedford Advantage works across four service areas. Each one is delivered by Bedford experts who know Anaplan and know your models. Together they make sure your platform keeps pace with your business.

Where you are and what to prioritise.

Fast, accountable answers when something breaks.

Keeps the platform aligned as the business changes.

Dedicated capacity to move your platform forward.

Visibility Review

Our experienced consulting team use our purpose-built application to identify potential areas for improvement and recommend a course of action to optimise the Anaplan applications. We will work with you to optimise your application combined with best practice guidance, knowledge transfer and user training. The review will assess the following areas within your Anaplan models:

  • Best practice being observed

  • Inefficient and overly rigid processes and design

  • Adoption and utilisation of latest Anaplan features

  • Future Sustainability

  • Anaplan personnel skills and knowledge transfer

You can also access this service as part of Bedford Advantage. Click here for more information.

Consulting Services

In addition to the services listed we can help you connect additional processes or business functions to your existing models to optimise your business outcomes, for example:

  • Bring your actual finance data into your planning tool with financial consolidation

  • Integrate your full S&OP process from demand and supply planning to sales forecasting

  • Expand your use cases to incorporate additional functional areas e.g. Workforce Planning with your HR managers

  • Expand the platform across new regions and train additional model builders

  • Help you take advantage of additional functionality such as Management Reporting, PlanIQ or Polaris

User clinics

Our FREE virtual drop-in sessions enable you to be able to directly ask questions of our Anaplan Consultants on topics relating to functionality and use cases. We offer two types of clinics; functional and use case.

  • Functional clinics are to address the more technical and functional challenges you may have with the Anaplan platform, such as questions around formulas, charts, hierarchies, user access, DCA, etc.

  • Use case clinics are for you to seek guidance on model design and the best in practice model building techniques. If you have ever thought to yourself ‘what’s possible?’ but aren’t quite sure of the answer, then these clinics are for you.

Penguin Random House Bedford Consulting Customer
“With new features, use cases and developments happening all the time, I can see us building on our partnership with both Anaplan and Bedford for years to come.”
Mark Buchanan, Director of Central Finance, Penguin Random House
All3 Media Bedford Consulting Customer
“We recently partnered with Bedford to migrate a number of our dashboards to The UX. Bedford made this process seamless, easily digestible and the end result is something the whole team is very pleased with.”
Stacey Sampson, Group Finance Systems Manager, all3media
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“We have also benefited from the use of the knowledge Exchange on Slack – the team is always responsive, and we get answers to our questions no matter what we throw at them.”
Yewande Lawrence, Financial Systems Manager, Tearfund
NHS West Essex CCG Bedford Consulting Customer
“Bedford as an implementation partner have been completely flexible to our needs, technically they understood our requirements and helped us deliver a product that is now key in our day-to-day planning and reporting.”
Colin Seward, Head of Business Intelligence, NHS West Essex CCG
BMG Bedford Consulting Customer
“Nurture days provide an invaluable touchpoint to a team of experts to help steer our Anaplan journey to the right place.”
Luke Christie, VP of Financial Planning & Analysis, BMG (The music company)

The Bedford difference

We are an Anaplan Solution Advisory and Delivery Partner, with certified expertise across all eight functional and industry specialisations. This status recognises our ability to drive high-value transformation and deliver exceptional customer success. We have been recognised as Partner of the Year every year since its inception in 2015.

Our deep-domain experts have delivered over 1,000 projects and are considered the best in their field.

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We’re waiting to help you

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