Anaplan

Founded by Guy Haddleton in 2006

Plan financial, sales, and supply chain decisions using AI-driven scenario analysis

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You can use Anaplan to run scenario planning and analysis across finance, supply chain, sales, HR, and retail. It connects your data from multiple systems, runs deterministic calculations alongside AI models, and lets you model what-if scenarios to guide business decisions. You can generate financial consolidations, set sales territories and quotas, plan workforce budgets, and align supply chain decisions—all within one connected environment with role-based AI agents surfacing insights in real time.

What Anaplan does

Build financial models with scenario comparisons across multiple variablesSet and adjust sales quotas and territory assignments using AI recommendationsConnect data from ERP, CRM, and HR systems into a single planning viewGenerate workforce cost forecasts based on hiring plans and budget constraintsRun supply chain demand forecasts and model disruption scenariosCreate consolidated financial reports across multiple business unitsDefine role-based planning workflows so each team works from the same numbersAudit AI-generated planning outputs against actual calculation resultsCombines a deterministic calculation engine with AI/LLM models for accurate, auditable answersRole-based AI agents that surface planning insights for finance, supply chain, and sales rolesBusiness data ontology that maps AI outputs to how your specific business operatesWhat-if scenario modeling across finance, supply chain, sales, and workforceReal-time operational intelligence generated from your connected business dataUnified data layer that pulls from multiple source systems into one planning environmentPurpose-built applications for retail, finance, HR, and GTM planning with best-practice templates

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