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:
DiscoverConnected planning for
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.
Why Beyond Plans?
Beyond Plans combines consulting, integration, and adoption to modernise logistics and transport processes. Our Anaplan experts support supply chain, transport, and finance departments in their connected and sustainable management.
Your challenges, our solutions
Cost pressures, customer demands, decarbonisation, and flow volatility require responsive planning. Beyond Plans helps logistics players connect data, forecasts, and capacities in Anaplan.
Key challenges
Volume volatility, cost increases and multi-site complexity
Transport and logistics operators face unpredictable demand, capacity constraints and increasing pressure on profitability. Fragmented tools hinder visibility and coordination.
Our solutions
Integrated planning of flows, capacities and costs
With Anaplan and Beyond Plans, unify forecasts, capacities, and budgets on a single platform. Gain visibility, optimise your resources, and simulate scenarios in real time.
From planning to operational performance
Anaplan covers the entire supply chain: volume forecasting, capacity planning, route management, and cost tracking. Beyond Plans adapts the solution to the specific requirements of transport, warehousing, and distribution.
Beyond Plans, a proven approach
Beyond Plans connects your logistics and financial models: costs, volumes, service levels and performance KPIs. An end-to-end approach to anticipate, arbitrate and decide faster.
Towards agile, sustainable and connected logistics
The transformation of supply chains has become a major strategic challenge. Faced with rising energy costs, capacity constraints, and growing sustainability expectations, logistics leaders must now plan on a continuous basis—within an increasingly competitive environment.
Anaplan provides an integrated approach to logistics management: capacity planning, resource management, cost tracking, and real-time scenario simulation (what-if). The platform connects data from TMS, WMS, and ERP systems to optimize decision-making at every level—from headquarters to field operations.
Beyond Plans supports transport, distribution, and logistics companies throughout this transformation. Our experts design Anaplan models capable of managing multi-level forecasts (volumes, costs, lead times), automating trade-offs, and ensuring seamless collaboration between supply chain, finance, and operations.
The benefits are significant: reduced transportation costs, improved service levels, streamlined inventory, better capacity utilization, and lower CO₂ emissions. By leveraging real-time data integration and the power of Anaplan, logistics leaders finally gain a solution that aligns economic performance with sustainability objectives.
Discover our insights
Our consultants share analyses, best practices, and experience 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 projects.
Artificial Intelligence and the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain: Between Ambitions, Complexity, and Concrete Transformation
Discover how AI is transforming pharmaceutical supply chains, and how Beyond Plans leverages Anaplan to turn data, planning, and collaboration into a resilient, intelligent logistics ecosystem.
Discover
Managing Uncertainty in Pharmaceutical R&D with Dynamic Planning Powered by Anaplan
Discover how pharmaceutical companies can manage R&D uncertainty and optimize decision-making with dynamic planning in Anaplan. A strategic, data-driven approach to accelerate innovation and align cross-functional teams.
DiscoverAll our use cases
Explore the Anaplan solutions deployed by Beyond Plans: budget planning, S&OP, PDP, supply planning, and workforce planning. Each use case illustrates a successful transformation.
Our other sector expertise
Beyond Plans also supports the chemical, pharmaceutical, banking, insurance, real estate, industrial, and retail sectors. Discover how we adapt 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.
Discover
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.
Discover
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.
Discover