Technology Overview
Anaplan strives to create a fully connected planning experience that will expedite your forecast, budget, and reporting cycles. This business owned solution enables the enterprise to become self-supportive and to drive actionable data, thus facilitating effective decision making. Anaplan enables organizations to conduct monthly outlooks, annual and rolling forecasts, strategic long-range plans, operational planning, sales planning, and more while connecting the various functions of a corporation like Finance, Sales, SCM, Marketing, and many others.
Transformation to Connected Planning
Take advantage of our services to ensure your current planning and consolidations design uses the latest capabilities, such as predictive analytics, meets business requirements, follows best practices, and provides flexibility for users.
Requirements and Blueprinting
Leverage TekLink’s Anaplan consultants to help gather your business requirements and then design the optimal planning process to ensure a robust planning solution and transform your planning practices to be leading edge.
Implementation
Let our consultants help you deploy or migrate to Anaplan’s Connected Planning Platform. Our expertise will allow you to take advantage of the latest features and capabilities to implement the best business planning practices.
Anaplan Training
TekLink’s Planning experts can provide custom and out of the box training for your team on tips and tricks of using Anaplan as business users. It will allow administrators to manage and maintain the models successfully and embrace the full power of Anaplan.
Application Managed Services (AMS)
Minimize long-term maintenance costs while still providing high-quality results for efficient planning in Anaplan. Our experienced Anaplan global support team can help with your production support needs, continued model optimization, security administration, and any further enhancements. We can provide a mix of onshore and offshore resources for 24/7 support and performance and cost optimization.
Size Optimization Offering
Our experts will review your model using our optimization methods, providing our customers with a leaner, better performing solution. These methods include but are not limited to the utilization of 2D tables, formula updates, summing analysis, and review of “Applies to”, time settings, versions, subset and numbered lists, and hierarchies.
Anaplan Solution Review Offering
Does your Anaplan Solution need a tune-up? TekLink solution review will optimize your Anaplan model to improve the design, performance, and usability. We will check the size of the model, hierarchies, data integration, calculations, and dashboard/visualizations.
Anaplan Life Cycle Management –Service Offering
Manage enterprise-grade applications that can scale and adapt fast enough to meet your changing business needs. Reduce time to ROI by decreasing time to production. If you do not have Anaplan’s Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), your business may be suffering.
TekLink Accelerators
- An essential part of budgeting and forecasting is planning for employee spend or Workforce planning. The model includes direct integration with your HCM tools such as Success Factors, Workday, or others. This model enables your team to plan headcount, salaries, benefits, attrition, hiring plans, and much more.
- Make it easier for the Marketing Executives to understand the various ad and promotion campaigns being conducted in any large enterprise. This solution enables a single repository for real-time aggregation of your marketing spend. Enter new campaigns and allow our workflow model to send for approval while updating your budget/forecast. In addition, bring in your actuals at the level of detail of your choice to measure the effectiveness and ROI.
- Answering management’s “What If” scenario questions can be time-consuming and challenging. Leverage our starter kit to jump-start your budget and forecasting model to address these “What If” scenarios. Our experts will design the model in a way to match your specific organization’s needs using the 80/20 rule.
- Generating a fully burdened product P&L is most effectively built through product allocations. The power of Anaplan allows detailed production allocations at any level and frequency to generate product P&L’s for both actuals and planned. This model includes a P&L comparison dashboard and a summary of the desired time horizon.
- Cash is King, as they say. Our Anaplan experts built a starter kit to allow finance and treasury teams to understand the various impacts to Days Sales Outstanding, Days Sales of Inventory, Days Payable Outstanding, Cash Conversion Cycle, Cash flow budget, Employee Payroll cash flow impacts, and much more, all resulting in a projected cash flow statement and cash budget.
- Understanding the numbers behind the numbers is critical. Whether you are developing your segment forecast or evaluating the submissions from your various lines of business, our solution allows you to assess statistically what your projections should be based on scientific modeling. The tool will also provide you with your standard deviation, R factor, and other key stats to manage and assess your financial forecasts and budgets.
- Increase your gross margins by preparing more efficient and effective trade promotions. This model enables marketing teams to establish a solid customer demand baseline that is statistically based. Then, the Account team can prepare their promotions and assess their ROI in real-time for the projected returns. Once the actuals are received at the same level of the forecast (if available), the model will assess the true effectiveness of the promotions. The model will link with your company’s approved demand plan and provide input into your company’s financial planning process if desired.
Capability Overview
Talk to our experts to explore TekLink’s unparalleled technical capabilities in Anaplan.
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Data Integration
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Self-supportive Solutions
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Analytics, Planning, and Decision Support
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Connecting your Anaplan Platform to Your Data Visualization Tool
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Trade Promotions Execution
"TekLink's team exceeded Kellogg Latin America expectations with the implementation of Anaplan. Not only their diligence and technical mastery were evident, but also provide critical and out-of-the-box solutions to meet the project's criteria and expand its scope."
Senior Manager
Kellogg's Company