Your Anaplan Implementation: Sleeping Beauty in Search of a Prince
By: Hillary Sich
Once upon a time, you implemented Anaplan software to improve your financial planning and analysis performance. But did you know that the solution contains a host of other features and functionality types that could be driving extra value?
Picture it this way — your Anaplan implementation is like Sleeping Beauty. It could rule the whole realm, bringing harmony to so many functions within your company, but all that potential is locked away as if the software itself is sleeping.
What you need is a handsome prince to ride in and awaken the full potential of what Anaplan can do. Today, the role of the prince will be played by Allitix's experts.
Just what kinds of new possibilities appear when the prince meets the princess? These include powerful functionality across multiple departments, such as:
Human Resources
When organizing your fairy-tale kingdom — or your business, as the case may be — it's the people who make everything happen. Taking a more active, data-driven approach to overseeing HR and workforce planning is a major advantage that you should be seizing.
With Allitix unlocking the hidden power of Anaplan, you can improve HR performance through:
Workforce planning
These features collectively help you identify and counteract the gaps in your workforce. Allitix experts can use both their experience with Anaplan and their industry knowledge to create a roadmap for your HR future, so your hiring plans can perfectly match your business needs.
When using Anaplan's modeling and forecasting functionality to its full potential, you can create alignment across your HR, finance and operations teams to generate sensible headcount projections that fit your budget and growth estimates.
Associate review tracking
Tracking associate reviews is a simpler and more useful process when you unlock some of the more advanced management reporting opportunities within the Anaplan platform. With an Allitix team on your side, your leaders can generate new, more granular reports. These data-rich snapshots let you highlight success and aim for performance opportunities.
Incentive compensation management
With Anaplan, you can engage in detailed sales performance planning, setting realistic plans and tracking actual progress against them yearly, quarterly or monthly. You can build multiple models to compare various incentive matrixes.
Allitix experts can awaken the true value of these advanced features, ensuring your team isn't just analyzing data for its own sake. The metrics you work with in compensation management and sales planning should be relevant and help your company find the ideal path forward.
Succession planning
As with any fantasy kingdom worth its salt, your business's leadership team needs a strong line of succession. The deep data analysis possible with Anaplan allows you to create speculative models of succession and determine whether you're doing enough to develop talent for future leadership opportunities.
Your Allitix team can help you generate models that show off the potential impact of turnover, future-proofing you against the fallout of various scenarios. You can also work with the rich data models to create a better employee review process, one that will help workers aim for advancement.
All these HR use cases have one thing in common: They're about seeing the possibilities and striking decisively. Like the proverbial prince, the Allitix team will ride in and take action to defend the kingdom, or at least bolster your efficiency and profitability.
Sales
When it comes to tightening up your sales department performance, a fully optimized Anaplan implementation can be the ticket to success. In this department, the prince proves that he's also a bit of a magician, using the crystal ball of predictive analytics to find valuable opportunities for your team.
Territory assignment
When wielding the power of Anaplan's predictive insights, your team can build out coverage plans that ensure all territories are adequately served, and that the right reps are on each assignment. This planning drives revenue, and the strategies are easily changeable to deal with shifting conditions.
Sales quotas
With Allitix experts on your side, you can use Anaplan to create balanced and realistic quotas that don't inadvertently set unrealistic goals. By analyzing your entire market and using multiple models to account for regional differences, you can create quotas that encourage ideal behaviors.
With the beautiful princess Anaplan and the handsome prince Allitix side by side, your organization can dispatch its sales team throughout the realm, creating ideal opportunities to keep the royal coffers full.
Supply Chain
Managing your supply operations is a complex process, but one that you can't take for granted. Perhaps a dragon won't attack your logistics infrastructure, but following years of raw material shortages, port backlogs and more, you can't rule it out. Anaplan, fully awakened and optimized, can help.
Supply planning
An integrated supply chain planning process is built on data from all your siloed departments and beyond. It's capable of taking past success into account, but not letting it distort future projections and targets. Insights into inventory, material flows and more allow for accurate sourcing.
Demand planning
When you use a system that can detect important signals in the market, you're better able to meet customer demand and delight your audience. Your Allitix team will help you take full advantage of these Anaplan features, using data from both inside and outside of your organization.
Anaplan provides the foundation for this kind of forward-looking supply chain planning, a new vision built on saving time while limiting spreadsheet use. Allitix's experts build a reliable castle on that foundation.
Happily Ever After
Once your Anaplan implementation awakes, there's no end to the exciting new possibilities for your business. The perfect union between Allitix's experts and this powerful platform can drive you to new heights of efficiency for years to come.
The best part is, there's no need to search far and wide for the prince that will wake your Anaplan implementation and push it into new departments and use cases. You simply have to contact Allitix. Project leaders known as Anaplanners can guide your team to ever-increasing success, through a combination of support and continuous feedback.
Whatever unexpected twists may come your way, there's nothing stopping your Anaplan deployment from finding its happily ever after. Contact Allitix to get started.