Anaplan,
Inc. (NYSE:PLAN), a pioneer in Connected Planning, today announced that
leading global research and advisory firm Gartner named Anaplan a Leader
in its Magic Quadrant for Sales and Operations Planning Systems of
Differentiation1 (S&OP Magic Quadrant). The company believes
the recognition in the Leaders quadrant is because of its high customer
satisfaction and the impressive capabilities of its supply chain
solution.
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Customers across industries around the world, including Circle
K, Flinn
Scientific, Healthy
Generation, and Sonos,
are leveraging the Anaplan platform to bring a Connected Planning
approach to transform their supply chain business planning processes.
With Anaplan, customers are experiencing significant returns by
advancing their S&OP process maturity to close the loop between sales,
product innovation groups, finance, and trade partners.
Circle K, an international chain of convenience stores, uses Anaplan to
align and connect core processes within its fuel supply chain. “One of
my objectives has been to connect the dots in the supply chain, as it
became an imperative to find efficient ways to make real-time and
forward-looking decisions,” said Magnus Tägtström, Senior Director
Supply Chain Optimization, Global Fuels at Circle K. “With one platform,
we can monitor performance, make forecasts, and manage scenarios.
Because of Anaplan, Circle K now has greater collaboration and an
accurate, aligned 18-month rolling forecast.”
Gregg Dvorak, the Chief Operating Officer at Flinn Scientific, a leader
in science and laboratory chemical safety, leverages Anaplan to bring
S&OP data together on a single, cloud-based platform. “Prior to the
implementation of Anaplan, we did not have a good indication of
inventory health and performance relative to our targets. Now, we have
data-driven insights that show actual performance against targets–and
that gives our business a competitive edge.”
For the S&OP Magic Quadrant, Gartner analysts evaluated completeness of
vision and ability to execute. Additionally, the company states that “an
S&OP SOD should include 13 key capabilities that are required to support
a Stage 4 maturity S&OP process.” These capabilities
include “collaboration support, hierarchy/translation management,
process management, tight integration to SCP SORs, integration to other
SODs, supply chain modeling to support creating scenarios, scenario
planning and management, solution configurability, support for global
deployments, financial impact analysis and planning, performance
management and analytics, simple user interface (UI), and project
planning.”2
Earlier this year, Anaplan announced it was named a Leader
in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Sales Performance Management3
for the third consecutive year. Last summer, Anaplan was named a Leader
in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Cloud Financial Planning and Analysis
Solutions also for the second consecutive time.4
“We feel very proud to be positioned in the Leaders quadrant after
tremendously improving our position compared to the previous report,”
said Frank Calderoni, Chairman and CEO of Anaplan. “From our view, our
placement in this S&OP Magic Quadrant with our other Gartner positioning
as a Leader* speak to the impressive value and results experienced by
our customers with our platform for Connected Planning. We are very
proud to be one of the most strategic core platforms for some of the
largest, most complex organizations in the world. They trust and rely on
Anaplan to help them make better decisions, especially when it comes to
company-wide transformation efforts.”
*1,2Gartner, “Magic Quadrant for Sales and
Operations Planning Systems of Differentiation,” Tim Payne, Amber
Salley, Alex Pradhan, 7 May 2019.
3Gartner,
“Magic Quadrant for Sales Performance Management,” Melissa Hilbert,
Adnan Zijadic, 14 January 2019.
4Gartner,
“Magic Quadrant for Cloud Financial Planning and Analysis Solutions,”
Christopher Iervolino, John E. Van Decker, 24 July 2018. The report was
previously titled Magic Quadrant for Cloud Strategic Corporate
Performance Management Solutions.
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About Anaplan
Anaplan (NYSE: PLAN) is pioneering the category of Connected Planning.
Our platform, powered by our proprietary HyperblockTM
technology, purpose-built for Connected Planning, enables dynamic,
collaborative, and intelligent planning. Large global enterprises use
our solution to connect people, data, and plans to enable real-time
planning and decision-making in rapidly changing business environments
to give our customers a competitive advantage. Based in San Francisco,
we have over 20 offices globally, 175 partners, and more than 1,100
customers worldwide. To learn more, visit anaplan.com.
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