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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luxury homes
With Anaplan and Beyond Plans, luxury houses combine creativity and rigor. Unify your global data, simulate store openings, optimize margins and cash flow, and manage performance with a consolidated view.
Why Beyond Plans?
Luxury demands excellence and precision. Beyond Plans supports finance, retail, and supply chain leaders in balancing global vision and local agility, leveraging business expertise, the power of Anaplan, and sustainable user adoption.
Your challenges, our solutions
Global steering, store openings, collection profitability: luxury brands must anticipate, simulate and collaborate. Beyond Plans and Anaplan provide a global, fluid and precise model designed for operational excellence.
Key challenges
Global management, margins, cash flow and profitability
International brands, multiple channels and high investment levels: the luxury sector must ensure data reliability, centralize strategic indicators and anticipate market developments without compromising accuracy.
Our solutions
Integrated planning, global visibility and agile decision-making with Anaplan
With Beyond Plans, your teams manage sales, inventory, margins and cash flow within a global Anaplan model. The result: a consolidated view, faster cycles and well-informed investment decisions.
From creation to distribution
Anaplan enables luxury houses to unify finance, supply, retail and marketing. Beyond Plans connects your regions and channels to secure forecasts, optimize margins and accelerate investment decisions.
Beyond Plans, a proven approach
Beyond Plans supports luxury houses from scoping through to deployment. Financial modeling, ERP/BI integration, margin simulations and team training: a tailored approach for sustainable adoption.
A sector balancing vision and agility
The luxury sector combines creativity, operational excellence and global growth. Between margin requirements, an increasing number of channels and international coordination, luxury houses must master their data and anticipate their decisions.
The challenges are numerous: opening new points of sale, managing wholesale and travel retail, sales forecasting, collection profitability, cash-flow management and compliance with ESG indicators. Too often, these processes still rely on heterogeneous Excel files that prevent a consolidated view.
Anaplan enables the shift to connected and predictive planning. The platform unifies financial and operational data, connects ERP systems and consolidation references, and provides multi-scenario simulation capabilities: margins, cash flows, IRR, ROIC and store-opening profitability. Investment decisions are based on objective and comparable analyses.
Beyond Plans brings deep industry expertise: a strong understanding of retail, wholesale, travel retail and the capital structures of luxury houses. Our consultants design global yet locally relevant models, deliver MVPs quickly and ensure sustainable adoption through Lemon Learning.
The benefits are tangible: a consolidated global view, accelerated budgeting cycles, fact-based decisions and seamless collaboration between headquarters and regions. Finance teams gain a real-time adjustable forecast P&L, a true strategic management tool.
With Beyond Plans and Anaplan, data becomes a strategic asset. Luxury brands gain responsiveness, transparency and operational excellence—key strengths to preserve agility in a cyclical and demanding market.
Discover our insights
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
Beyond luxury, Beyond Plans supports banking and insurance, industry, chemicals and pharmaceuticals, real estate, retail, and professional services. Discover how we tailor Anaplan to the specific challenges of each industry.
Retail
With Anaplan and Beyond Plans, retailers and brands unify their forecasts, budgets, and inventory plans. Anticipate trends, manage seasonality, monitor margins, and collaborate in real time on a global scale.
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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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Banking and Insurance
With Anaplan and Beyond Plans, banking and insurance players secure their forecasts, control costs and anticipate regulatory impacts. Basel III, Solvency II or DORA: manage in real time and gain agility.
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