Allow the same action to run multiple times within a single process

AnaplanIdeas

Description of the enhancement required:

Allow the same action to run multiple times within a single process

 

How would it help your business process:
There are many situations in which this would be helpful.
One example Setting a production plan based on prioritising SKUs.
i.e. The capacity of a production line is calculated before and after a particular SKU X is produced.
The capacity available for SKU X+1 is now whatever is leftover after SKU X is produced.
The capacity after each SKU is made is "copied" into "capacity available" for every SKU until all SKUs made or capacity exhausted by running the same action multiple times.
It would also allow the application of many mathematical techniques which do not currently exist in Anaplan, but can be replicated via an iterative procedure.
i.e. Multi linear regression -which is to become a key requirement of the company for an optimisation problem at BAT.

 

AnaplanIdeas

Status changed to: In Review

elisa.richomme

Hello,

 

Wondering if someone has found a workaround to this limitation?

I have the exact same issue with my production plan

 

Thank you,

 

Elisa

Joeswei6

Any workarounds or solution for this?

DavidSmith

The best workaround is to create line item for each iteration if possible and "model" the movement.  We should be trying to minimise processes needing multiple actions

 

However, the only other way is to create specific views of each iteration, and an action for each. These can then be combined into a process

David

hermannk

New to community so late on providing addition request for such feature.

Example for our site is that we must perform some additional actions on data after import to Anaplan. Data is large and must be processed by period. Would like feature to allow me to set a filter for a view via a common configuration line item. Example the filter on ModuleA is having a line item Time Filter of type Month having formula Name(Item(Time))=config.which month? So far this can be done.

Then would like a process that allows me to

Import Jan'24 to config.month

process data (one or more actions to execute on the month)

Import Feb'24 to config.month

process data (SAME one or more actions to execute on the month)

etc.

Today this is not possible so I must make may views and clone many actions with the only difference being the month being filtered. What is needed is reusability, reusability, reusability.

TomonoriO

Good idea!