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How I Built It: Supply Chain Transport Optimizer in Anaplan
Author: Author: Soumya Bhattacharya is a Certified Master Anaplanner and Advisory Manager at Accenture. In this ‘How I Built It', I’ll show how Anaplan’s Optimizer can be used to demonstrate effective transportation and supply planning across a network of suppliers and distribution centers. By leveraging Anaplan’s modeling…
Evolving business requirements over time: Retroactive changes and effective dating
Author: Marc Weinzimmer, Certified Master Anaplanner and Senior Project Manager at Alpha. The day a new Anaplan model goes live is always exciting. The model is clean, fast, and aligned with current business needs; admins are trained, users are engaged, and everything appears to be running smoothly. However, as time…
Cooking up a prototype — A recipe for success
Author: Tiffany Rice is a Certified Master Anaplanner and Senior Supply Chain Applications Builder/Developer at Anaplan. There are many different scenarios where leaders or project sponsors may request some “proof” before we make the “pudding”. This is common in instances where teams are exploring new functionality,…
How I Built It: Period-driven variance reporting
Author: Nizar Cherkaoui is a Certified Master Anaplanner and EPM Manager and Solution Architect at VISEO. In this How I Built It video, I demonstrate how to design period-driven variance reporting in Anaplan when comparison logic is unknown upfront and flexibility is required. Instead of embedding period choices directly…
How to approach a user story?
Author: Devrath Ahuja is a Certified Master Anaplanner with over six years of experience in implementing and delivering global Anaplan solutions. As someone starting out on their Anaplan journey, sometimes user stories and the build can feel overwhelming. Have you ever looked at a user story and wondered, “Where should I…

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How to, plus an evaluation of ways, to do version comparison
Author: Kevin Beltz is a Certified Master Anaplanner and Principal Platform Adoption Specialist at Anaplan. Budget vs. Actuals. Last Year vs. This Year. What-if Scenario A vs. What-if Scenario B. As an Anaplan model builder, solution architect, or end-user, you know that comparing versions is a foundation of insightful…
Use cases for Anaplan XL
Author: Audrey Neet is a Certified Master Anaplanner and Director at Tru Consulting. Anaplan XL (AXL) is one of the many products Anaplan offers. It extends how users can interact with Anaplan data beyond the UX, providing additional flexibility for targeted analysis and reporting. With AXL, users can design reports and…
Anaplan introduces Snowflake Writeback in Pipelines
Author: Kira Wagner is a Product Owner at Anaplan. Snowflake Writeback is now available as a new addition to our integration capabilities. As the first of several planned writeback connectors, this feature is part of the Pipelines functionality in Anaplan Data Orchestrator. It allows you to move transformed and validated…
Event recording available: CoModeler for Clear, Correct, Continuously Improved Models
If you missed our spotlight event on Anaplan Community Experience: CoModeler for Clear, Correct, Continuously Improved Models , a recording is now available. Our partners at Polestar Analytics, Steven Gnatovich and Vijay Vyakaranam shared with us how they are utilizing CoModeler in their implementations. The session…
April 2026 platform releases and what’s next
Check out the latest Anaplan feature updates and enhancements in our April 2026 official release notes. There you'll find information on: Polaris Trigonometry functions MOVINGSUM on general lists Line item limit Security and tenant administration CAPTCHA on basic authentication Anaplan XL (version 2604) Offline writeback…
Recording now available! April 29 platform release event
If you missed our April 29, 2026 platform release event, the recording is now available! In this webinar, we highlighted the most recent feature releases and how to take advantage of these in your environment. Our expert-led session demonstrated new features and innovations, provided a technical deep-dive and “how-to”,…
Polaris Building and Debugging Tactics
Author: Dana Evernden is a Principal Solution Architect at Anaplan, pioneering the Anaplan Delivery Assurance Program. Polaris Building and Debugging Tactics Tired of sluggish models and performance bottlenecks in Polaris? Ever feel like you're just one tweak away from unlocking lightning-fast speed? You've found the…
A CoE becomes essential when you own Anaplan
A CoE becomes essential when you own Anaplan Author: Stacey Borne is a Certified Master Anaplanner, former Anaplan Center of Excellence Leader, and runs the Certified Master Anaplanner Program and Anaplan Center of Excellence Programs at Anaplan. You don’t need a large team to have a Center of Excellence, but you do need…
How I Built It: Sensitivity analysis
Author: Casey Pham is a Certified Master Anaplanner and Director of FP&A Systems at Yext. In this ‘How I Built It’ video I'll show how I built a model and process to run a sensitivity analysis. Tens or hundreds of scenarios without overloading the model with too many scenario list items and manually updating driver inputs…
A practical guide: Customer tenant split
Author: Marc Weinzimmer, Certified Master Anaplanner and Senior Project Manager at Alpha. A tenant split can happen when a company splits into two separate companies. This consists of migrating workspaces (including all models in it) and users from source tenants into a target tenant. Let’s quickly walk through a helpful…

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YTD Should Exclude Current Month and Include Actuals Only
Currently, Anaplan’s native YTD (Year-to-Date) calculation includes the Current Period, even when that period contains forecast values. Issue From a financial planning and FP&A perspective, YTD is expected to represent Actuals only. However, Anaplan calculates YTD including the Current Month, which can contain forecast…
Show List Name in Blueprint Format Column (or as an additional column at the end)
In as much detail as possible, describe the problem or experience related to your idea. Please provide the context of what you were trying to do and include specific examples or workarounds: When working in Blueprint view or exporting module blueprints, list-formatted line items do not clearly display the list name. In…
Shared Pages Across Multiple Apps
The Idea Allow a single page to be surfaced in multiple apps simultaneously — appearing natively in each app's home screen and dropdown navigation — without needing to duplicate the page itself. The Problem Many organisations structure Anaplan around multiple business unit-specific apps, but have pages that are truly…
Save user specific adjustments to column widths in a grid on a UX page
In as much detail as possible, describe the problem or experience related to your idea. Please provide the context of what you were trying to do and include specific examples or workarounds: Users need the ability to save adjustments to column widths that they make within their module views of a UX page and have those…
Enable Export of New UX Pages and Module Metadata from New Model Experience
In as much detail as possible, describe the problem or experience related to your idea. Please provide the context of what you were trying to do and include specific examples or workarounds: We are trying to export and document Anaplan New UX pages and model metadata for governance, audit, impact analysis, and knowledge…
Allow workflow schedules to be set to run on certain business days of the month
In as much detail as possible, describe the problem or experience related to your idea. Please provide the context of what you were trying to do and include specific examples or workarounds: When we create a workflow, we really need the schedule to occur on certain days to align with the planning calendar (business days…
"Model is busy" context
All End Users and Executives experience this issue. When the model locks up (from integrations, inputs, etc) in the UX, all users see is a "Model is busy" without any context. It would be great if: They can see who is making the update They can get an estimated time of the model being busy This is key - When they see…
Synchronize History visibility with Grid Card filters (Restrict History for hidden rows)
【Current Behavior & Challenge】 In the Anaplan UX, the History feature does not currently respect the filter settings applied to a Grid Card.When a user maximizes a Grid Card or selects the entire grid to view History, the results include the audit trail for rows that are filtered out (hidden) on the screen. 【Business…
Granular IAM Policy Requirements for CloudWorks Amazon S3 Connection (Import vs. Export)
Currently, the official documentation for connecting CloudWorks to Amazon S3 provides a broad IAM policy example that includes s3:DeleteObject. Connect to Amazon S3 | Anapedia However, from a security governance and "Principle of Least Privilege" perspective, many organizations require more granular control over these…
Aligned by Design - A proportional cascade framework for multi-level forecast reconciliation
In as much detail as possible, describe the problem or experience related to your idea. Please provide the context of what you were trying to do and include specific examples or workarounds: In enterprise planning and forecasting, we aim to produce statistically sound forecasts at multiple organisational levels (e.g.…

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An Update on Anaplan Audit Log Reporting: A No-Code Approach
A while back, I shared a pattern for extracting and reporting on Anaplan audit data using a Python project hosted on GitHub. I wrote that during my time on the Operational Excellence Group (OEG) at Anaplan. The Python solution still works, and plenty of teams are running it today. The problem it solves hasn't changed:…
Looking for Anaplan End-Users to take a short survey!
We are looking for Anaplan end-users to provide feedback on their experiences with the Excel add-in. Interested individuals will respond to this 5-minute survey to help us understand personal needs and behavior when using the add-in. The feedback provided by survey takers is essential to the roadmap of Anaplan's products.…
Top-Down Allocations
Estimated Level of Effort:4-8 Hours of Model Building Level of Difficulty: Beginner Recommended Training: L2 Model Builder Training Persona: Casual Model Builder Potential ROI: Decreased planning time Increased accuracy of targets/spreads You Might Also Like: * Historical Snapshotting Top-Down Allocations Whether it's…
How to Detect Retail Sales Trends in Anaplan
Retail Knowledge | Detecting Trend INTRODUCTION Using machine learning to detect a sales trend is a science and an art. Obviously no computer program or set of calculations could ever know everything that’s going on with your business. The creative side of detecting a trend is built upon your familiarity with the way your…
New UX - Mobile App
I have designed a simple new UX Page (Page:A) so it can be viewed on a regular laptop / monitor size screen. This Page (Page A) is also viewable on the Anapaln mobile App (with no loading issues), but involves lots of scrolling to see the whole Page content I have been trying to design a simple mobile App friendly size…
Latest Article: Importing with Varied Dimensions
Please read out my latest article on Imports featured under best practices. https://community.anaplan.com/t5/Best-Practices/Importing-With-Varied-Dimensions/ta-p/89698 Misbah
Stacked Column Graph
I would like to reproduce the above stacked column graph in Anaplan, but can't get the labels on the bottom axis to appear in the same way. The best I have achieved is this (I have limited the data selection to make the issue more obvious). I have two columns for each month, but it doesn't show which is forecast and which…
Anaplan Live!—Your Opinion Matters
We're getting ready for our next Anaplan Live! event. As active Community members and model builders, your input is extremely valuable. Our mission is to bring you content to boost your model-building skills, no matter what level you're at today. Take this brief survey, and let us know what you want to learn more about.
Anaplan Connect Migration v1.4. SQL Server Connection (check sql server driver for jdbc)
When migrating some Anaplan connect scripts from v1.3. to v1.4. I encountered an error with my sql connection. The error I received when running my script was something like 'check sql server driver for jdbc'. I wanted to share the solution for reference as it was not that obvious. In my original script (v1.3) my…
What protocol and port(s) does MuleSoft Connector use?
Hi, My current client has selected MuleSoft Connector to orchestrate the integrations between Anaplan and their legacy systems and they are asking what is the protocol and port(s) it uses to connect to Anaplan. I've searched through Anapedia and the Community and I was not able to find the answer, however I assume it uses…

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