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Anaplan Launches Apps to Match Supply and Demand in Hyper-Change EnvironmentsSAN FRANCISCO, March 18, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Anaplan today announced the launch of a suite of Supply Chain Planning apps that leverage the company's cloud planning platform and provide customers with a flexible and scalable all-in-one solution. Anaplan's three new applications include demand planning, supply planning and Executive Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP). Customers can download the new Supply Chain Planning apps from Anaplan's App Hub. Anaplan CEO, Fred Laluyaux, said high volatility in demand and a fluctuating economy had provided fertile ground for cloud planning to disrupt the industry. "Companies can now proactively capture market opportunities. Their goal is to have real-time visibility and agility to truly be demand-driven, capturing all the opportunity and investing in just the right amount of supply — which ultimately increases profits. That's the power of Anaplan: one planning platform that planners can autonomously adjust without heavy reliance on IT systems and staff. This vision has been shared by many companies for more than a decade but the technology just wasn't there to achieve it, until now," Mr Laluyaux said. Folia Grace, Vice President, Product Marketing, said Anaplan designed the apps to address common pain-points that customers regularly encountered in supply chain planning.
Anaplan's integrated planning platform that drives collaboration, focus, and alignment across multiple divisions and company departments is winning praise from its clients who appreciate the opportunity to plan in real time and have the option to make changes when necessary. Jacob Mathew, Executive Director at Deloitte Consulting Southeast Asia, sees Anaplan as a solution that provides a collaborative platform to execute the S&OP process. Deloitte has undertaken many S&OP process implementations where customers constantly seek flexible and agile platforms to manage this process. "We see a lot of advantages in Anaplan as a platform, we are a global partner and we are taking advantage of this platform in serving our clients better," Mr Mathew said. Anaplan's App Hub is a community for all Anaplanners to build, share, and deploy planning apps. The planning app community brings together planning experts from a wide range of business domains, industries, and organizations including HP, McAfee, Pandora, Deloitte, and Workforce Insight, and many others. About Anaplan Anaplan is the planning cloud for Finance, Sales, Operations and HR. We built our platform from the ground up to empower you to plan, collaborate, and act—in real time. Anaplan enables you to deploy easy-to-use applications to solve complex planning challenges across your organization. Stay ahead of critical business events, rapidly model potential impacts, and course correct on-the-fly. Anaplan is a privately held company, headquartered in San Francisco, CA with global offices on four continents. To learn more, visit anaplan.com. Join us on twitter: @anaplan For more information, please contact: Logo - http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20150225/177672LOGO To view the original version on PR Newswire, visit:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/anaplan-launches-apps-to-match-supply-and-demand-in-hyper-change-environments-300052130.html SOURCE Anaplan |