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Follow-up from the forum on 17 March: Challenge yourself to communicate about Anaplan to your users!
Hi all, Thank you so much for joining yesterday - we had great discussions about the latest features and especially the end-user pivot and filter. How do you communicate to your users about this feature? Here are a couple of ideas that I implemented myself in my previous role and at Anaplan Idea 1: Communicate to your end…
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Customer Success Announcements | March 2021
Hi, everyone! There are some exciting announcements in this month's Customer Success newsletter. I wanted to post it here to make sure you see them. Please let us know what you're most excited about, and if there is anything you'd like to hear more about at a future event! Introducing Central Identity Management (CIM)…
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Customer Success Announcements | March 2021
Hi, everyone! There are some exciting announcements in this month's Customer Success newsletter. I wanted to post it here to make sure you see them. Please let us know what you're most excited about, and if there is anything you'd like to hear more about at a future event! Introducing Central Identity Management (CIM)…
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Board or Worksheet? Thoughts?
UX... To Board or to Worksheet, That is the question! Read here on some tips and differentiators from Anaplan in-house expert Anne-Julie. And please comment! What is your experience? What works best for your organisation? Do you just use a Board for everything? Did you know that some things can be done on a Worksheet but…
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Excel Upload Limitation?
Hi Team. Just wondering if there's a known issue with how many cells can be uploaded at once. I have a spreadsheet that can potentially upload 20,000 cells. Works great with 100 or so change but at 20,000 it crashes Excel. I'm using Version 4.1.2.295, the latest version. The previous version worked fine.
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Q1 2021 Wrap Up - Webinar Recording!
Retail team! Here's the link to the webinar. What a great event. Thanks again @BobD @Dsabo @alicia_crowther for hosting and facilitating! Also, big thanks to @HannahT and Anaplan Support for helping me get the recording to YouTube! https://youtu.be/az93zG5Lr9Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=az93zG5Lr9Q
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Copy Branch Workaround - From Jan User Group
Here is the explanation of how to do the Copy Branch & Assign workaround as demonstrated at the January User Group
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Retail Anaplan Group Q1 2021 Wrap Up
Retail Anaplanners! What a great quarterly meeting today. Special thanks to @BobD, @Dsabo, and @alicia_crowther for hosting and speaking at todays event. Attached is the presentation. For those that missed the meeting, I will be adding a link to the recording. I'm limited to 71MB on this post, so I may have break it up.…
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Group Event on 7th April 2021
Hello Anaplan Family, We are going to have our First Group Event on 7th April 2021 at 10:00 AM IST. Please Register for the event. Link below See Virtual Group Event for India Modelers at Anaplan Modelers Forum India
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Retail Group virtual meetup today at 1500-1600 GMT
Morning all, just a heads up that the Retail Group meeting is at 1500 GMT today - we are in that strange time of year where the US has changed clocks and the UK has not, so we are 4 hours ahead of Eastern US time, not 5. Looking forward to seeing everyone this afternoon! Feel free to reach out if you have any questions…
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Weekly Tip: Easy Forum Engagement Strategies
When was the last time you posted in your Group's forum? Taking even just a few minutes each week to share something will create value for your Group members and go a long way toward generating the long-term engagement critical to your Group's success! Some easy ideas: * Welcome new members. You can see the dates your…
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Welcome to the NEW Anaplan Energy & Utilities Group!! Get started here...
Hello, and welcome to the very first Anaplan Energy & Utilities Group! This group has been created by Robin and I to bring together the ever growing population of Anaplanners working in the Utilities sector - that could be energy retailers, DNO's, generation, water companies and technology companies developing smart…
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Retail Group Virtual Meetup March 16th 11-12PM EST - Teaser #4
Here's the last teaser before the meetup next week. Hope you all can join! https://usergroups.anaplan.com/events/details/anaplan-retail-presents-retail-anaplan-group-q1-2021-virtual-meetup/#/
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A new approach to budgeting starts now!
Really interesting article from McKinsey's on how organisations need to be changing the way they approach budgeting and the time to start the change is now! Take a look. https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/strategy-and-corporate-finance/our-insights/memo-to-the-cfo-a-new-approach-to-2021-budgeting-starts-now Do you…
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Ranking across Multiple Dimensions
Ability to rank dynamically can be achieved by using the Group by property/parameter in the RANK function. We will need to determine a method for calculating a group by value based on the values selected by the user. Normally, the RANK function is fixed to the dimensions in the grid, but in our case, we need it to change…
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Store Operations: Can they be Agile?
Hi Retail Team. Ran into this article today and thought I'd share it because it poses an interesting question about how planning, typically starting at the top and cascading down can be transformed to be more agile where top and bottom iterate with each other. What do you think? Can this be implemented in Anaplan?…
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Do not miss February 2021 Releases and March Sneak Peek!
* Released in February * Modeling Enhancements * Collaboration Updates * UX Updates * Mobile Enhancements * Admin Console * HyperCare 3.0 * Ideas Delivered in Feb * Targeted for March * UX Updates * Extensibility Updates * Security Enhancements * Upcoming scheduled maintenance: Released in February Modeling Enhancements *…
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Wow! The March Anaplan Release is all about Retail!!
Retail Anaplanners, If you haven't read @VickiA sneak preview or release notes before, this is the time to give it a try. https://community.anaplan.com/t5/Releases/February-2021-Releases-and-March-Sneak-Peek/ba-p/99663 In March the retail industry will be handed a major gift! In March, we should be getting these features:…
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Retail Group Virtual Meetup March 16th 11-12PM EST - Teaser #3
Retail Anaplanners! Less that a week away, March 16, for the Retail Anaplan Group quarterly meeting! We'll take a closer look at how OTB is used in Anaplan and how retailers are reacting to the Pandemic in record time. As a bonus we'll also see a demo of price management in Anaplan. Our special guest is Alicia Crowther and…
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Weekly Tip: 3 Benefits of Smaller Events
Hi, everyone! Each week @HannahT and I will post tips for event success, boosting engagement, and other bite-sized ideas for helping you lead your Groups. Please let us know how you like this new feature, and be sure to react to the tips each week. We value your questions and comments! This week's tip: Events don't have to…
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Platform updates - remember to subscribe to Status Updates
Hi all - just a reminder we have a scheduled maintenance event taking place this Saturday 9pm GMT - for future reference the best way to keep up to speed on these and if they affect you is to subscribe to platform updates - as always if you have questions please just reach out to your Business Partner.
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Set Your Calendar | March 16th 11AM-12PM
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Retail Group Virtual Meetup March 16th 11-12PM EST
Hope you all can make it. Here's a promotion I put on LinkedIn. We'll cover open to buy in Anaplan, Price Management: Markdown planning, and the UX Research Program. You can register here. https://usergroups.anaplan.com/events/details/anaplan-retail-presents-retail-anaplan-group-q1-2021-virtual-meetup/#/
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Automate Current Date Import Using Python
Import and Automate Current Date Import to Anaplan Using Python By Jared Dolich Retail Planning Enthusiast Summary As a supply chain Anaplan data integration modeler, you might be asked by your business partner to display actuals for elapsed periods and forecasts for unelapsed periods. If you are not using the current…
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[2 minutes | Question] CLOSED: Lifting the 1m cell limitation
All, I am pleased to confirm that the next version of Excel Add-in will not have a 1m cell limitation anymore as per this idea. Instead, the next limitation will be 5m, which should leave you enough room to do all sorts of reports and ad-hoc analysis in Excel. There are however two points to consider: * Even if you create…
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ZEN of the Anaplan Decoded - Zen 1
Just because you CAN doesn’t mean you SHOULD We all know that Anaplan is so powerful and so flexible that anything you can think of building on this platform can be built. But does that mean we should be doing it? That’s why this Zen of the Anaplan is my personal favorite. This is so broad a statement but it is so…
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New Member Welcome! March 2021
We had one new member join us in February - welcome @jjayavalli! Please introduce yourself to the Four Corners group, and let us know how we can support you on your Anaplan journey. Lauren
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Retail Anaplan Group - February 2021 Update
Retail Anaplan Group Monthly Summary - 2021 February Headlines * @Stacey_Gibbens did a masterful job explaining Transactional API's 2/25/201. Check them out. * 1 New Members joined, raising the membership count to 134 * The Retail Group Leaders @Dsabo @BobD and @JaredDolich will be hosting a quarterly virtual meetup on…
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Q1 2021 Retail Anaplan Group Virtual Meetup
Retail Group!! Hopefully, you all got an invitation to join the Q1 Retail Anaplan Group meeting March 16th, from 11-12 a.m. EST (New York City). I know that's really early for you on the west coast and really late for you in Europe and Middle East. (sorry) I'm pretty sure these are recorded so if you can't make it we'll…
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Closed: We would like your feedback on e-signature software
We are looking for customers to share their thoughts on e-document signing/e-signature software (Docusign, Adobe Sign, Hello Sign etc) used in their organisations. We are looking to have a discussion about how you are currently using this software and to ask for your feedback on some ideas that Anaplan is considering. This…