Our annual benchmarking report, The State of Connected Planning, investigates how leading organizations accelerate business value through Connected Planning. We surveyed over 1,000 planning professionals across all business functions in 45 countries and 18 industries to uncover leading planning trends. This Sales-focused brief contains: Key findings from Sales professionals Planning challenges faced by Sales professionals Ideas from Sales leaders about overcoming obstacles and planning more successfully

Our annual benchmarking report, The State of Connected Planning, investigates how leading organizations accelerate business value through Connected Planning. We surveyed over 1,000 planning professionals across all business functions in 45 countries and 18 industries to uncover leading planning trends. This supply chain-focused brief contains: Key findings from supply chain professionals Challenges faced by supply chain professionals How they believe they can improve their planning processes

As the digital revolution continues, a linear approach to supply chain planning is gradually giving way to ecosystem thinking. Consumers buy in an entirely new way. Goodbye Sears catalog, hello one-click checkout. To keep up, companies need the ability to plan accurately in real-time. Introducing digital demand management with the Anaplan platform: a collaborative approach that can keep up with omnichannel demand. What’s inside this paper from Supply Chain Brain: What digital demand management means in today’s market The benefits of a connected approach to demand management

A few years ago, the slow, spreadsheet-driven mode of sales and operations planning (S&OP) may have sufficed, but today, it’s utterly inadequate. A disconnected process can’t keep pace with a dynamic market. Enter the next-generation of S&OP: dynamic, connected, and powered by cloud-based technology. When planners from across the business are able to work in unison, executives can make better-informed decisions that positively impact the bottom line. Download this paper to learn: Six essential phases of S&OP An in-depth exploration of each phase How to make next-generation S&OP a reality with cloud-based technology

Driver-based budgeting (DBB) is a business planning process that links demand with the operational activities needed to fulfill that demand. Its approach can be successfully implemented in nearly every industry due to its flexible methodology. In this paper, you will learn: What business drivers are and on which ones an organization should focus The benefits of implementing a DBB process How Connected Planning technology supports a sustainable DBB approach

Prior to implementing the Anaplan platform, RSA Group had a tedious spreadsheet-based, nine-month planning cycle riddled with data quality issues, which was compounded by siloed, functional fragmentation across the company. As a result, the finance team was spending a significant amount of time cleaning data rather than analyzing it to provide insight to key stakeholders throughout the business. Using the Anaplan platform, RSA Group reduced their financial planning process from nine months to five months. The workforce planning team experienced a 50% improvement in productivity. The business can now own their connected plans, resulting in improved decision support to business users, as well as improved customer service and financial results.

A few years ago, the slow, spreadsheet-driven mode of sales and operations planning (S&OP) may have sufficed, but today, it’s utterly inadequate. A disconnected process can’t keep pace with a dynamic market. Enter the next-generation of S&OP: dynamic, connected, and powered by cloud-based technology. When planners from across the business are able to work in unison, executives can make better-informed decisions that positively impact the bottom line. Download this paper to learn: Six essential phases of S&OP An in-depth exploration of each phase How to make next-generation S&OP a reality with cloud-based technology

Tata Steel Group, an integrated steel company and one of the world’s most geographically diversified steel suppliers, used to have planning data spread across the company in hundreds of spreadsheets. With Anaplan, sales and operations data are connected on one platform, and as a result, the company now has more accurate pricing, procurement, and delivery forecasts.

Driver-based budgeting (DBB) is a business planning process that links demand with the operational activities needed to fulfill that demand. Its approach can be successfully implemented in nearly every industry due to its flexible methodology. In this paper, you will learn: What business drivers are and on which ones an organization should focus The benefits of implementing a DBB process How Connected Planning technology supports a sustainable DBB approach

As part of a company-wide initiative called Ambition 2020, AXA Germany reimagined and connected its planning processes across the business as it moved them to Anaplan. Done in three phases, the reinvention eliminated spreadsheet nightmares and improved both process transparency and planning efficiency. As a result, months-long planning routines are now complete in days and the foundation is set for further improvements.

Nous avons interrogé plus d’un millier de professionnels de la planification dans le monde entier. Découvrez rapidement nos conclusions dans cette synthèse.

Nous avons interrogé plus d’un millier de professionnels de la planification dans le monde entier. Découvrez rapidement nos conclusions dans cette synthèse.

Les consommateurs adoptent de nouvelles méthodes d’achat. Les épais catalogues de vente par correspondance n’ont pas fait long feu. Aujourd’hui, un simple clic est suffisant pour valider notre panier numérique. Pour ne pas être en reste, les entreprises doivent avoir la possibilité de planifier avec précision et en temps réel. C’est pour répondre à ces nouvelles exigences qu’Anaplan a enrichi sa plateforme d’une solution de pilotage numérique de la demande (DDM – Digital Demand Management), selon une approche collaborative conçue pour répondre à la demande omnicanal. Que contient le livre blanc publié par SupplyChainBrain ? • Quel est le rôle du pilotage numérique de la demande sur le marché actuel ? • Concernant le pilotage de la demande, quels sont les avantages d’une approche connectée ?

Wir haben über 1.000 Planungsexperten auf der ganzen Welt zum aktuellen Stand der Planung befragt. Sehen Sie in Bericht auf einen Blick, was wir erfahren haben.

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Performance challenges can add up quickly with a poorly configured cloud setup, and companies must get serious if they hope to transition to the cloud successfully. Businesses may be turning to the cloud at a breakneck pace, but that speed is leaving many without a clear plan as to how they want to reach their end destination.

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Every industry is going through digital transformation. Whether retail, manufacturing, media, finance, or software - in order to survive organizations are changing the way they operate in order to meet the demands of today’s connected customers. Whether it’s Uber redefining urban transportation for consumers, Slack enabling teams to collaborate in totally new ways, or Docker rivaling legacy virtualization providers, innovation is being powered by technology, and it’s happening faster than ever before.

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The goal of usability testing, simply put, is to make sure that a user can complete the tasks they are expected to complete. Usability testing doesn’t test whether or not the functions of the application, website or connected device work correctly, but rather that a user intuitively understands how to perform these tasks — and how easy or difficult it was to do so. With usability testing, “close enough” won’t cut it. A product may have a superior architecture, a great set of features, good performance, scalability and a number of other positive attributes. However, all of this effort is wasted if the user experience is inadequate. An application, website or connected device that is not user-friendly is just as bad as a buggy version and can lead to diminished revenue, product abandonment or a total failure. An application with poor usability can also negatively affect a brand

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