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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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.
Why Beyond Plans?
Facing demand volatility, margin pressure, and channel fragmentation, Beyond Plans and Anaplan deliver unified and agile planning by aligning commerce, supply, and finance.
Your challenges, our solutions
Retail must react quickly, avoid stockouts and overstock, and protect margins. Beyond Plans and Anaplan provide end-to-end steering: consolidated forecasts, an agile supply chain, and multi-scope reporting.
Key challenges
Trends, omnichannel, margins, and agility
Volatile consumer behaviors, multiple channels, fragile margins, and seasonal collections: retail must unify its data, adjust its plans, and accelerate decision-making without losing accuracy or visibility.
Our solutions
Integrated commerce-supply-finance planning
Beyond Plans and Anaplan provide a single model that connects sales forecasts, inventory, promotions, and margins. The result: faster cycles, improved reliability, and decisions based on a single source of truth.
Reactivity and transparency
Retailers need to forecast demand and coordinate supply, merchandising, and finance. Beyond Plans and Anaplan make your forecasts more reliable, speed up your decisions, and reduce the time spent on manual tasks.
Beyond Plans, a proven approach
Beyond Plans combines retail expertise, agility, and adoption. Our approach: collaborative scoping, rapid development using Anaplan, ERP/CRM integration, and team support for sustainable adoption.
A sector in search of agility
Retail operates in a constantly high-pressure environment: omnichannel models, international competition, shorter sales cycles, and increasingly unpredictable consumers. In this context, planning becomes a strategic lever to protect margins and customer satisfaction.
Too often, sales, supply, and finance teams rely on disconnected tools and scattered Excel files. The result is lengthy processes, consolidation errors, and delayed trade-offs. Forecasts fail to reflect real market trends, weakening decision-making.
Anaplan provides an integrated answer. Its cloud platform connects ERP, CRM, and merchandising tools to model sales, promotions, seasonality, supply, and budgets within a collaborative environment. Scenarios can be tested by region, channel, or brand, ensuring instant visibility across the entire network.
Beyond Plans complements this technological power with strong business expertise and an agile methodology. Our consultants design models that align finance, supply chain, and commercial teams, rapidly deliver usable MVPs, and ensure adoption through Lemon Learning.
The benefits are immediate: reliable data, shorter planning cycles, tailored reporting, real-time international collaboration, and faster decision-making. The example of our client L’Oréal Travel Retail illustrates this success: global consolidation, a unified process, and trend planning delivered in one week instead of three.
This transformation demonstrates the ability of Anaplan and Beyond Plans to make retail more responsive, collaborative, and sustainable—capable of adjusting strategies in days rather than weeks.
“With Anaplan and Beyond Plans, we have transformed a cumbersome and fragmented process into an agile, collaborative, and reliable cycle that supports faster and more relevant business decisions.”
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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 curated selection of articles to understand trends, explore Anaplan use cases, and support your transformation initiatives.
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