Financial Planning and Analysis with Anaplan

Why FP&A in Anaplan?

Many FP&A professionals struggle with too little time, which prevents financial figures from being reported quickly. Making accurate forecasts is a challenge because financial planning within different departments in the organization is often not well connected. In addition, there is little insight into real-time processes, making quick analyses impossible. One thing is certain: if you want to streamline this entire process, then a scalable FP&A planning solution provides the solution.

Benefits of FP&A with Anaplan

A planning software helps you identify and monitor performance gaps, assess the impact of specific actions and create "what-if scenarios. All Financial Planning applications come together in one platform. The flexible, scalable and modular planning software is easy to maintain without IT dependency. Because data is managed unilaterally, there is one Single Source of Truth. In addition, FP&A with Anaplan offers the following benefits:

• Fully available in the cloud
• Powerful real-time planning & calculations
• Comprehensive dashboards & visualizations
• Comprehensive dashboards & visualizations
• Single Source of Truth

One platform for financial planning and analysis

Being able to respond quickly to changing market conditions is more important than ever. Traditional planning is often too slow in this regard. The planning cycle takes too long and a lot of time is lost collecting the necessary data. Time that should be spent on accurate analysis that adds value to the organization.

How can you meet these challenges? Anaplan's integrated approach means working together on one plan; all in line with business goals.

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Planning, Budgeting & Forecasting

The planning, budgeting and forecasting process constantly regulates the organization, allowing for continuous business growth. Are you already using a planning solution but it is currently taking too much time or is not clear enough?

• Anaplan simplifies and automates the entire process: less workload and more efficient operations;
• Analyses and reports are realized in no time: make the right decisions faster;
• Figures are automatically generated in a dashboard: manual entry is a thing of the past;
• Accelerate the financial forecasting process: data-driven forecasting becomes a lot more fun, easier and faster.

Financial Planning in the Cloud

In order to move quickly, clear and concise planning is necessary. A financial planning that focuses not only on one department, but on the entire organization. This scalable solution from Anaplan is flexible and applied to strategy.

As an EPM leader in the cloud, Anaplan has made FP&A fully available in the cloud platform. As a result, data is always and everywhere accessible. With this, all specialties are also available in the cloud platform, including:

• Zero-based budgeting;
• Profitability Modeling;
• Pricing Analytics;
• Modeling Mergers.

Operational Planning

The world around us is changing faster than ever. If you want to move with it as an organization, the importance of an agile organization is imperative. This creates more space for creating innovation and improving decision-making. But how do you create and shape this space?

In operational planning, strategy is linked to execution; this means that financial planning and operational planning are synchronized company-wide. This connection ensures the achievement of the best financial results.

With Anaplan's financial planning software, it is also possible to connect different business functions in a single overview. We then speak of Connected Planning:

• Sales Planning
• Supply Planning
• Workforce Planning
• Anaplan Finance
• FP&A in practice

Takeaway.com

The implementation of Anaplan helps create accurate and data-driven forecasts that support the company's growth and integration of acquisitions.

Booking.com

With the implementation of Anaplan, Booking.com can forecast operating costs in a variety of ways, from manual entry to automated statistical forecasting.

Want to know more about Anaplan? We host regular training sessions, webinars and knowledge sessions.

Want to know more about FP&A with Anaplan?

Wondering what Anaplan's flexible planning solution can do for your organization? Schedule a 30-minute demo with one of our Anaplan consultants! In this session, we will show you how you can optimize your daily operations with FP&A and you can indicate which components you would like to know more about.