Integrated Business Planning with Anaplan

Integrated Business Planning with Anaplan

Integrated Business Planning (IBP) is a model that incorporates business planning into a holistic plan. With this, there is real-time alignment between various business functions, such as strategic planning, financial planning, supply planning, workforce planning and sales planning. All planning bodies within the organization are connected in this way. As a result, there is alignment and transparency across all business units on economic and operational expectations within a company. Thus, more informed decisions can be made more quickly. Moreover, planning is thus centralized around the organization's bottom line. Because information becomes visible at a glance with IBP, the reliability of forecasting and financial projections increases.

Connected Planning

Anaplan uses the term Connected Planning to mean the connection between different business units.

The benefits of Connected Workforce Planning come in handy when filling out your workforce in Anaplan. Different departments, such as HR, finance and business planning, for example, are synchronized with each other. This results in a reliable and efficient way of workforce planning. Workforce Planning gives you insight in a clear and fast way, so that operational and tactical plans can be executed in the right way, with the right people.

Connected Planning is fully available in the cloud, making information available from any location. Its user-friendliness makes it easy for any user to set up a dashboard that is fully customizable, without other users seeing it.

Take a look at the Honey Comb below which visualizes the cohesion and dependence of multiple business units.