Adopting Anaplan: Comparing Approaches and Best Practices
A planning solution is only as valuable as the way it’s used. When it comes time to choose a user adoption strategy for Anaplan, one essential question arises:
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chemicals and
pharmaceuticals
With Anaplan and Beyond Plans, players in the chemicals and pharmaceutical sectors strengthen their agility. Anticipate demand, manage the supply chain and secure your forecasts in a complex, highly regulated environment.
Why Beyond Plans?
Long cycles, regulatory pressure and market volatility require robust solutions. Beyond Plans combines business consulting, Anaplan expertise and on-the-ground adoption to transform your financial and operational processes.
Your challenges, our solutions
The chemicals and pharmaceuticals sector is marked by high uncertainty and increasing pressure. Beyond Plans provides a tailored response by combining business expertise, the power of Anaplan and hands-on support to secure your decision-making.
Key challenges
Demand volatility, regulatory constraints, margin pressure
Laboratories and manufacturers must deal with uncertain forecasts, strict regulations and rising costs. The multiplication of sites and the complexity of supply chains make planning increasingly challenging.
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Connected, reliable and collaborative planning with Anaplan
With Beyond Plans, the chemicals and pharmaceuticals sector gains access to integrated models: reliable financial forecasts, an agile supply chain, what-if scenarios and Finance/Production alignment. The result: greater visibility, control and responsiveness.
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Beyond Plans transformed our forecasting: within a few weeks, they connected Market Access, Business Development, Finance and Supply around Anaplan, delivering a truly unified view and reliable scenarios to support our decisions.
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From R&D to distribution
Anaplan covers the entire value chain: R&D budget tracking, site capacity planning, multi-echelon inventory management and regulatory compliance. Beyond Plans supports your teams in turning these constraints into performance levers.
Beyond Plans, a proven approach
Beyond integration, Beyond Plans brings a clear methodology: scoping business requirements, Anaplan modeling, ERP/MES/BI integration and change management. Each project is built on robust governance and structured adoption rituals.
A complex sector, an agile response
The chemicals and pharmaceuticals sector is characterized by high regulatory and technological intensity. Long cycles, demand variability and margin pressure complicate day-to-day management. Teams must anticipate global demand, manage large product portfolios and coordinate multi-country sites, while complying with strict quality and safety standards.
Traditionally, planning relies on spreadsheets or siloed tools, making collaboration between Finance, Supply Chain, R&D and Industrial Management difficult. Decisions are often made too late, based on partial data, and lack traceability.
Anaplan changes the game by delivering an integrated cloud-based model capable of connecting key functions. Finance teams can build reliable forecasts aligned with operational constraints. Supply Chain teams better anticipate demand, reduce stockouts and optimize multi-echelon inventory. R&D teams track budgets and projects in line with the overall strategy.
With Beyond Plans, support goes beyond technical deployment. Our consultants bring industry-specific expertise in chemicals and pharmaceuticals, build models tailored to industrial flows, and define relevant KPIs (forecast accuracy, OTIF, quality costs, working capital). And thanks to the Lemon Learning software solution, we ensure fast and sustainable user adoption.
The result: connected, transparent and agile planning that strengthens the sector’s ability to adapt to demand fluctuations, regulatory changes and competitive pressure.
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Our consultants share analyses, best practices and feedback here to shed light on the key challenges of performance management and planning. A selection of articles to understand trends, explore Anaplan use cases and support your transformation initiatives.
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Our other industry expertise
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Food & Beverage
With Anaplan and Beyond Plans, food & beverage players gain agility. Anticipate price volatility, optimize margins, ensure traceability and compliance, and manage performance in real time.
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Industry
With Anaplan and Beyond Plans, industrial companies unify their performance management. Anticipate volumes and margins, connect ERP and MES (Manufacturing Execution Systems), simulate in real time the impact of prices and rates, and gain greater visibility into your performance.
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Transport and logistics
With Anaplan and Beyond Plans, transport and logistics players gain visibility and responsiveness. Anticipate your flows, optimize your capacities, and control your costs in a complex and competitive environment.
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