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Sales and Marketing
Boost sales effectiveness with Anaplan: Plan intelligently, optimize territories, quotas, targets, and account segmentation. Transform incentives into revenue drivers. Gain valuable sales insights for realistic opportunities and accurate forecasts. Drive exceptional results and business growth.
Start from scratch, arrive at a life-time value for a customer by building your customer funnel across channels by integrating your financial plan for marketing spend, CPA, and customer behavior. Cascade your customer forecast to your retail locations to back-in to demand while your merch team builds its own bottom-up SKU forecast and assortment. Compare and contrast the two plans, align on goals, and build out the rest of the plan in your retail channel strategic plan; from store openings, to renovations, to staffing, to product assortment, to new product introductions.
Merchandise & Financial Planning
Planning processes for retailers are often bulky and convoluted between teams, with inconsistent gaps and overlaps of point solutions delicately stitched together using Excel. This model bridges the gap between departments by providing connectivity in a single solution for sales and inventory planning, enabling retailers to incorporate short term and long-term merchandise planning with FP&A planning.
A CONNECTED SOURCE OF TRUTH FOR PLANNING, TRACKING, AND FORECASTING PROCUREMENT ACTIVITY
⭐ Build your customer funnel, with cohorted behavior analysis to identify active customers, orders, frequency, and AOV.
⭐ Allocate your sales plan to existing and planned retail locations based on historically-informed store profiles.
⭐ Incorporate input from your real estate committee, planning out new store openings with capex and opex assumptions.
⭐ Enable merchandise budgeting for purchasing and COGS with an open-to-buy at the category level.
⭐Set inventory service levels such as weeks of supply, minimum order quantity, target re-order levels, to drive replenishment.
⭐Produce on your top-down sales forecasting by leveraging seasonality and outputs of your customer funnel.
⭐Incorporate a store profile’s assumed assortment to produce a highly accurate average order value or average selling price.
⭐Compare top-down sales target with the bottom-up retail build to identify gaps to plan and take action to close those gaps
⭐ Incorporate sales orders, purchase orders, and a statistically-driven SKU-level demand plan to inform replenishment.
⭐Facilitate in-season planning with Next-4-Week forecasting driven by store profile and recent historical performance.
Strategic Price Planning
Minimize the complexity of data analysis and planning for thousands of SKUs across multiple markets by providing a single source of truth. Use the Keyrus Solution for price planning to create a forum where planners can save weeks from their planning process and managers can access answers to pricing questions just a click away.
Several distribution companies in the grocery, durable goods, and cosmetic sectors want to understand which of their products are the most profitable, or which yield the highest returns versus their cost-of-goods and promotional investments. This granular view of dead net profit is an important data point that their pricing teams want to use to negotiate better deal-levels with their manufacturers and vendors.
The Keyrus harvest planning solution helps you plan dynamically, discover patterns, and anticipate demands. This solution is built on Anaplan’s flexible, extensible, in-memory platform for connected planning. It combines tactical planning – leveraging a consistent set of variables at a high-resolution level of detail – with aggregated views of the business.
Why let trial costs spiral out of control when there’s an integrated, centralized solution that will provide your team with access to real-time data? Start working and collaborating smartly and stop wasting countless hours manually aggregating and reconciling data from hundreds of disparate spreadsheets. Transform complex, fragmented processes with Anaplan.
