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Retail Anaplan Group - October 2020 Update
Retail Anaplan Group Monthly Summary - 2020 October Headlines * 9 New Members joined, raising the membership count to 123. * Announcements | Discussions* Death of Fast Fashion (The Robin Report) * @mskinner and @mharris reach the certified modeler certification. Congratulations!! (Marc and Michele) * How the Myers Briggs…
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Excel Add Ins
Our Extensions provide a powerful way to connect your Anaplan environment to MS Office and so share Anaplan data across your wider business community. Details of the latest version information around our Excel Add In can be found here;…
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Anaplan CloudWorks
Simple, agile data integrations - CloudWorks is now available to all customers. See the release notes and information here. This gives intuitive data integration capability to the hands of the Anaplan users - know where your data comes from, where it goes to, and control the timing and frequency of the interface. If you…
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Great Accelytics Article Comparing Blue Yonder and Anaplan
Retail Anaplanners! Chris Louttit @clouttit over at Accelytics wrote up a pretty good comparison for a retail CIO between BY and Anaplan. Thought you might enjoy it - link is below. You can also request to watch his webinar which is mind blowing – very convincing. I did pose two questions to Chris regarding the awkwardness…
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[3 minutes | Survey] CLOSED: Tell us what you think about the phased release
Thank you to all of you who took part in the phased release of Excel Add-in 4.0. We would love to hear from you about this new approach and how we can improve it for future releases (did you see we announced Excel Add-in 4.1 and PowerPoint Add-in 1.7 for October? We would like to take into account your feedback about the…
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The Myers Briggs Type Indicators and Anaplan Roles
Hello Retail Anaplan Group!! Which of these 10 personality types and Anaplan Role is most congruent to your own? Do these Anaplan roles have a stereotypical personality type? +5 Kudos if you can figure out which one is @JaredDolich MBTI. INTJ | Solution Architect “There’s a 95.3% probability I’ll learn something new at the…
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CPG - what functionality do you want?
Hey CPG Community, If you had your chance to add any functionality into the Anaplan platform that would make it that much better for CPG companies, what would you add? Now is your chance as we are compiling a CPG list of enhancements that we will be presenting to product development. Anything provided this week will be…
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Death of Fast Fashion?
Retail Anaplanners! The Pandemic has been a catalyst, or a “great accelerator”, as some call it, regarding retail winners/losers. Is fast fashion really over? Thought you all might like this article. Agree? Sure makes planning easier in my mind. https://www.therobinreport.com/finally-the-death-of-fast-fashion/
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JOIN the Anaplan CPG Community!!
www.community.anaplan.com
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Announcement! MHarris Earns Level 2 Modeling Certification!
One of our RAG members @mharris has successfully earned her Level 2 Modeling Certification on the NEW UX! Congratulations @mharris !!
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Performance / Speed
Hi there, I just showed a client the new Excel Add-in and they were extremely underwhelmed by the performance of it. Specifically they didn't love that: - Excel freezes for 30 seconds upon signing in - Refreshing takes 10-15 seconds for a small module on a high-speed network We are seeing these issues on different laptops…
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Excel Add-in 4.0 Users - We'd like your feedback on the process
Anaplan's Office Extensions have recently changed the process of how they release new features. The new process was a phased release, meaning that Excel Add-in 4.0 was first available to a small group (Phase 1), then available via Anapedia as a download (Phase 2), and finally several weeks later, it was available to all…
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Give us your feedback on Anaplan's Research Program
If you've participated in a research session with us before, please take a few minutes to provide us some feedback on the process. (We wouldn't be good researchers if we didn't ask for your feedback!) 😉 This short survey will allow you to tell us what you liked, what needs improving and how you'd like to work with us in…
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Using the U-S-E-R Methodology to Move to the UX
https://community.anaplan.com/t5/Blog/Using-the-U-S-E-R-Methodology-to-Move-to-the-UX/ba-p/86853
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Release Calendar
This is a great blog for keeping up to date with the latest release content! It can be hard keeping track but this is a super useful and easy way of being on track with the latest product enhancements and when they will hit the streets!
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CloudWorks
Check out our Community Page for the latest on CloudWorks and contact your BP for more info! GA currently scheduled for approx. 24th October 2020 so keep watching!
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Housebuilding and Construction Industry Community Chat
A community for our users in the Housebuilding and Construction Industry to exchange ideas, ask questions, and share solutions.
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ALM
How much do you know about ALM? Could you be using it? Do you know if you have it? Are you interested in fully auditable Development to Production promotion, effortless synchronisation - including UX? Follow our UX thread to keep up with latest developments and increase your knowledge of this offering.
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Any interest in a virtual meet up?
Hoping everyone is doing GREAT! Wanted to gauge if there is any interest in doing a virtual event in early December? If so, what type of event would you like to see (education session, network after work, virtual happy hour, etc.)?
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McKinsey survey: What 800 executives envision for the postpandemic workforce
A good read from McKinsey on the disruptive period of workplaces changes that lie ahead due to acceleration of automation, digitization, increased demand for contractors and gig workers, and more remote…
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Help us redesign Anapedia content for the Excel add-in
We’re redesigning the Anapedia content for our Excel add-in, to make things easier to find -- and we would love to get your input. We promise this is even more fun than a traditional survey. Check it out and share with others who use the Excel add-in! Take our five minute survey The survey is open until Wednesday, October…
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New: CPG Anaplan Site
For everyone who has not seen our new CPG site on anaplan.com, here you go! https://www.anaplan.com/industries/consumer-products/
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UX Live - our next workshop
Richard and I will be hosting another UX Workshop on Wednesday 4th November. If you haven't been able to attend before, or would like some colleagues to join this time, then click here to sign-up!
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List of Use Cases by Customer?
Hey Everyone, would it be useful for everyone to know the variety of ways in which Anaplan is being used within our Higher Education and Public Sector community? I was thinking of a list that could be posted here. We can definitely discuss during our User Group meeting on Tuesday 8/20. Let me know!
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CLOSED: We'd like your feedback on switching tenants in the UX
CLOSED: This study is now full. We are looking for Anaplan customers and partners who have multiple tenants for a design testing session on a new way to switch between tenants while in the User Experience. In order to participate, you must be a model/page builder who uses the User Experience and has multiple tenants. The…
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Please share—Anaplan Live! Planning Survey
The Community team is busily planning the next Anaplan Live! event. We want to deliver an event that is designed especially for model builders, so we're asking for your help sharing this 5-question survey with your Group members so that we can craft the best and most relevant experience possible. Feel free to copy and…
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What's the Future of Work? A Hybrid Workforce
A quick read: Came across this article (What's the Future of Work? A Hybrid Workforce) discussing the notion of a hybrid workforce where more employees will work remotely and only come into the office as needed to collaborate on activities and projects. A good deal of planning and modeling will go on behind the scenes to…
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[Excel Add-in 4.0 release] CLOSED (6 October): Phase 3 of the release
Hi all, We will go into phase 3 tomorrow. This means all users who have an Excel Add-in version installed (from 3.1) will see a pop-up notification when they open Excel that a new version is available. If your company upgrades to 4.0, this is the last time you will see this pop-up as we have changed it for a more discreet…
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Announcement! MSkinner Reaches a Major Milestone!
Retail Anaplanners! One of our Retail Anaplan Group members, @mskinner has reached a major milestone yesterday by earning the Anaplan certified modeler certification! A super, duper, crisp salute to you @mskinner - Congratulations Marc and to Columbus Consulting. Nicely handled!!
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FIFO Logic
Hi, Looking for the best practice regarding setting up FIFO in Anaplan as this requires an iteration of the data. I've explained the situation more in detail in a comment on the post below: https://community.anaplan.com/t5/Anaplan-Platform/How-to-calculate-within-specific-tenure/m-p/85851#M18977 Hoping someone can help as…