IBP is for everyone
But some industries have seen its potential early
Joining up business planning across departments delivers advantage to every organisation.
And we believe that it will eventually be adopted as best practice across the board.
But not everyone’s there yet. Some industries (and departments!) have been natural early adopters of IBP and Anaplan, and seen significant benefits from it, from better forecast accuracy to more robust decision-making.
We’ve worked with companies across the spectrum. It’s given us insight into industry-specific priorities and challenges and it’s helped us develop cross-industry best practice; and we’re using it all to tailor our solutions to each of our customers.
Financial services
A data-rich industry with complex requirements across all business functions and a strong focus on regulatory compliance. Here are some typical use cases:
Workforce optimisation
Empowering operational teams with sophisticated demand forecasting; planning staffing, rosters and training.
Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)
Helping FP&A teams unlock the value in their performance data to support better business decision making.
Compliance
Supporting regulatory compliance through automated modelling and reporting.
Reward
Achieving excellence and efficiency for Reward teams through solutions spanning HR, Finance and Sales.
Public sector
When it’s your job to deliver as high a quality service as possible to a growing population, while managing tight budgets within strict regulatory frameworks, then, well, you’ll look for efficiencies wherever you can. Here are some that we can help deliver:
Finance
Automating back-office processes including budgeting, forecast and management reporting in order to achieve valuable efficiencies.
Demand forecasting
Helping organisations understand growing demand for services so they can make long-term plans for the workforce at the right scale and skillset to meet it.
Operations
Short-term demand forecasting for services far enough in advance to be able deploy resources efficiently and prevent costly outsourcing.
Business services
A key challenge in this industry: accurately matching workforce capacity with demand in the face of uncertain markets. Here are some things help reduce that risk:
Strategic workforce planning
Ensuring that the scale and shape of the workforce supports business growth.
Operational forecasting
Enabling teams to match demand with workforce capacity. That includes leveraging insight from the teams closest to demand (e.g. Sales) and data from the tools they use (e.g. CRM) and integrating it with HR insight.
Finance solutions
Supporting accurate and efficient planning, forecasting and reporting of business performance.
Operations
Tracking the performance of contracts or projects on an individual and portfolio level – across dimensions such as time and quality of service delivery, as well as budget.
Consumer goods
Volatility in consumer demand, prices, and supply all mean one thing: tight margins. We can help consumer organisations embed strategic planning to run more efficiently and effectively. For instance:
Demand forecasting
Improving the accuracy and efficiency of forecasts of consumer demand.
Connecting procurement, manufacturing, inventory and distribution
Optimising the business’s ability to meet that demand.
Breaking down silos
Identifying and removing silos between Sales, Product and Finance to maximise profitability.
Media
The digitisation of content and distribution has disrupted the media industry big time. This has put pressures on margins, requiring media companies to optimise investments and run efficient organisations.
The Anaplan platform can help:
Content investment
Optimise investment decisions in content through accurate and automated sales forecasting and investment case modelling.
Accounting automation
Automate calculation of royalties and other third party payaways.
Performance management
Accurately forecast financial performance through FP&A solutions that capitalise on the rich data available in digital streaming/ distribution.
Retail
Retail is an industry shaped by intense competition, wage and price inflation, and tight margins.
That makes operational efficiency crucial for survival. Fidenda can help the sector leverage its rich data, for:
Profit-led decision-making
Expertly mine data for better decisions around range, space, prices and promotions.
Optimised workforce
Deploy staff more efficiently using demand-led store task forecasting.
Supply chain optimisation
Improve inventory management and reduce stockouts through better demand forecasting and supplier collaboration.
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