Supply Planning on Anaplan:
consulting, models and adoption
With Anaplan and Beyond Plans, supply planning becomes a performance lever. Anticipate your needs, optimize inventory and purchase orders, simulate what-if scenarios, and strengthen supplier collaboration.
Why
Beyond Plans?
Implementing a cloud-based supply planning tool is not enough. Beyond Plans combines FP&A expertise, supply chain know-how and Anaplan integration to design robust replenishment policies. We secure your multi-site data, integrate your ERP/MES/WMS systems, and support your teams through to on-the-ground adoption.
Supply planning : the essentials in brief
Supply planning consists in transforming demand into reliable replenishment plans. With Beyond Plans and Anaplan, you gain end-to-end visibility: inventory optimization, reduced stockouts and excess inventory, what-if scenarios, and ERP/MES/WMS integration for proactive management.
Context
Demand variability and supplier lead times weaken inventory levels and service performance.
Our approach
Diagnostics, replenishment policies, what-if scenarios and continuous adoption.
Key benefits
Optimized inventory, reduced working capital, and faster decision-making thanks to clear dashboards.
From shortages to excess inventory, regain control of replenishment
Demand variability, supplier lead times and multi-site constraints generate stockouts and excess inventory. Without reliable scenarios and alignment with S&OP and MPS, planning remains reactive, increasing costs and weakening service levels.
Our Supply Planning approach
Consulting + integration + adoption: Beyond Plans designs your supply planning model on Anaplan. Capacity diagnostics, ERP/MES/WMS and SRM integration, definition of replenishment policies (MRP/DRP, MOQ, lot sizes), what-if scenarios and supplier collaboration. Adoption ensured through Lemon Learning.
Key benefits with Anaplan
With Anaplan and Beyond Plans, reduce stockouts and excess inventory, improve OTIF and fill rate. Optimize working capital and costs through tailored settings. Gain multi-echelon visibility and faster decision-making thanks to dashboards, alerts and governance aligned with S&OP/MPS.
About Anaplan
Anaplan is the cloud platform that structures end-to-end supply planning. It integrates MRP/DRP, what-if scenarios, multi-echelon optimization (MEIO), and supplier collaboration, connected to your ERP/MES/WMS to ensure reliable decisions.
Anaplan Supply Planning FAQ
Do you want to secure your supply planning and reduce excess inventory? Here are answers to the most frequently asked questions about implementing a cloud-based supply planning solution with Beyond Plans and Anaplan.
Supply planning vs supply chain planning: what is the scope?
Supply planning covers replenishment planning and synchronization with demand. Supply chain planning also includes production, distribution and transportation. Supply planning is therefore a key building block of integrated end-to-end planning.
Which data and prerequisites are required (MOQ, lead times, calendars, SKU hierarchies)?
A supply planning project requires reliable data: MOQ, supplier lead times, SKU hierarchies, production calendars and multi-site master data. Beyond Plans supports scoping and governance to secure and structure this data.
MEIO vs traditional safety stock: which should you choose?
MEIO (multi-echelon inventory optimization) optimizes inventory across the entire network. Traditional safety stock acts locally. The MEIO approach reduces overall excess inventory and improves end-to-end service levels.
How can ERP/MES/WMS systems be connected and data quality ensured?
Anaplan provides ERP/MES/WMS connectors and open APIs. Beyond Plans configures data flows, secures data and implements supply governance to ensure multi-site data quality and consistency.
What are the typical deployment timelines and key success factors?
An initial scope can be operational within 12 weeks. Key factors include clear scoping, reliable data, business sponsors and user adoption. Beyond Plans ensures project steering and change management to secure value.
Request a demo
Discover how Anaplan and Beyond Plans secure your supply planning. In 30 minutes, we present a demo tailored to your challenges: reducing stockouts and excess inventory, what-if scenarios, multi-echelon optimization and supplier collaboration.
Discover all our use cases
Beyond Plans deploys Anaplan across all processes: budgeting, P&L modeling, MPS, S&OP, cash flow forecasting, Workforce Planning… Each use case illustrates how we transform a standard application into a robust, business-ready and widely adopted solution.