Connected Planning to achieve Better Business Outcomes

Planning isn’t about building models; it’s about better business outcomes.

Today organisations are trying to find focus in an uncertain market:

  • Revenue predictability amidst market uncertainty
  • Rebalancing the salesforce for changing demand
  • Reducing reaction time to build resilience
  • Weighing sales investments against cashflow trade-offs

The New Reality

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Complexity

Organisations have hundreds of systems with no common data or connections.

2.

Disruption

The current environment has changed how most businesses operate.

3.

Uncertainty

The Office of Finance must prepare for any eventually in times of uncertainty.

Anaplan drives performance

Anaplan is the platform for orchestrating business performance, connecting critical operational drivers and financial outcomes for supply chain, workforce, revenue, and liquidity to drive growth, optimisation, efficiency, and continuity.

Anaplan solution enables:

  • Connected Planning and Insights
  • Continuous Modelling and Forecasting
  • Synchronised Action and Readiness

Creating the Honeycomb effect to planning:

The Honeycomb Effect of Connected Planning

…across the enterprise for faster, better decision making

 

Reasons to look closely at Anaplan

Connecting data, people and plans with:

  • Unified modeling, planning, analysis & reporting
  • Breadth of financial and operational planning use cases
  • Business self-service modelling
  • Real-time responsiveness
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One Connected Platform to enable:

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Time Savings

Reduce planning, analysis, and reporting cycle time by over 50%.

2.

Ground Level Planning

Anaplan’s scalability supports granular level planning such as by rep, SKU, or bill of material level.

3.

Quickly Managing and Handling Change

Flexibility to allow easy updates that can cascade immediately down any multi-tier hierarchy such as organization, product, or time.

4.

Spreadsheet Elimination

Eliminate spreadsheets by moving planning processes into the cloud with Anaplan.

5.

Enrich Planning and Market Intelligence

Anaplan’s multi-dimensional modeling allows incorporation of insights from sales, marketing, and finance.

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Error Reduction and Consensus Planning

Standardised tool allows for one version of the truth and discipline around the entire planning process to allow for consensus planning.

Sempre: Delivering Anaplan with Added Value

Here’s the difference Sempre can make to your Anaplan connected planning experience.

Drilling down your objectives

Your end goal is better business outcomes and smarter decisions. Anaplan is designed to help you get there

Hands-on training
Sempre provides targeted guidance that addresses the needs of your people. This could range from ground-up assistance for complete novices, through to advanced guidance and a review of existing procedures for more experienced users.

A periodic planning health check
For staying on track, the value of a fresh pair of eyes once in a while can be hard to over-estimate. One of the most appreciated aspects of our service involves a systematic review of your existing model design, integrity and reporting practices.

‘Best Practice’ functionality updates
When planning models are already deployed, revisiting them can seem like too much to ask. But this ignores the fact that functionality on the Anaplan platform is improving all the time. Through a ‘knowledge transfer’ session tailored to your needs, Sempre can ensure you are always in the best position.

Why Sempre?

As much (or as little) self-sufficiency as you need
Don’t be tied down to rigid service packages. Our support is fully tailored to the needs of our clients. Whether you intend to be fully self-sufficient – or you’d feel more comfortable with outsourcing key parts of your Anaplan project, our team can cover it.

Proactive training
It’s not about updating just for the sake of it. Rather, our approach keeps you appraised of the ‘best bits’ of Anaplan as and when updates arrive.

Business-focused expertise
Since 2011, our team has delivered over 200 successful planning projects. Technical know-how is a given (and between them, our consultants have more than five decades’ experience in this area). More than this, with corporate financial management included in our planning team skillset, we know precisely how a planning platform can be put to best use.

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Connected Planning in Construction

Our Business Planning capability has been enabling organisations across Construction, Housebuilding, Social Housing and Real-Estate to build scalable financial and operational Anaplan solutions that improve:

Financial Resilience – scenario planning, M&A-driven changes, new site, and project profitability and cashflow forecasting

Smarter Decisions – cross-organisational insights planning to build connected and accurate financial outcomes that reduces risks.

Operational Efficiency – faster processes for budgeting, forecasting, month-end reporting, P&L management

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