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Community perspective: How to maintain corporate brand standards in Anaplan
Overview One responsibility of a marketing team is creating and regulating the corporate brand standards. Logos represent the most recognizable part of this tool kit, but the choice in color can be equally important when consumers are challenged with recognizing popular companies. McDonalds: Red & Yellow. Starbucks: Green…
Seeking Insights on seasonal forecasting within Anaplan: Share Your Experiences and Best Practices!
Hello Anaplan Community, I hope this message finds you well! As we approach the holiday season, I am eager to learn more about how companies in our community are leveraging Anaplan for holiday forecasting. This is a crucial aspect of planning for many businesses, and I believe there's a wealth of knowledge and diverse…
2.3.10 Activity: Create Demand Forecast (Big doubt )
Hello Everyone I have a logical question to make sure my approach and formula is correct for demand forecast in question on the LEVEL 2 SPRINT 2 activity . As we see, we have to create the baseline forecast for the current FY by importing the historic volumes data to the current FY from previous year FY19 data which we…
Exporting all the URL's from assets
I have uploaded 200 images to the Assets section, and as the url does not use the image name! I therefore need to export all 200 URL's and then create a lookup. I can export 1 URL at a time, but 200 may take a while. Can i export all the URL's for the images anywhere?
Is there a way to export a module into excel with each line item on a different tab?
I have a module dimensioned by time and a store list, with cost lines as line items. I'd like to export into excel with each line item as a separate tab. We don't have widespread use of the excel add-in so I'd prefer a way without needing to use that if possible.
Community perspective: Version compare and dynamic module line item description update
There are times when we need to generate output modules with the ability for version comparison. Although Anaplan has its own version comparison function, sometimes we need to build a dynamic scenario creation and comparison function. Please see Planual instructions for versions before proceeding with custom versions, as…
Process ID
Hi, We are trying to integrate with Onecloud to have automatic uploads of files. For this I need workspace, model, and process ID. I have found the workspace and model id by just looking at the url. How can I find the Process ID?
Using Python 3 with the Anaplan API
* Getting Started * Authentication * Getting the Information Needed for Each Script * Uploads * Multiple Chunk Uploads * Single Chunk Upload * Imports * Exports * Actions * Processes * Downloading a File * Deleting a File * Standalone Requests Code and Their Required Headers * Get Workspaces List * Get Models List * Get…
User provisioning
We know how good it feels when you start exploring Anaplan on your own. One very important area that needs special attention from you is the Users section in Anaplan. This is the section where you add users into Anaplan or remove users from Anaplan. There are other things as well that you can do in the Users section, but I…
Delete from list using selection
Hello Everyone, I have a module dimensionned by two lists, in which I added a boolean "Delete" which is codded by true, and I wanted to create a delete from one of the two lists using selection in the "Action" table, based on that boolean, but when I look for it I don't find it in the droplist of "selected using", which is…
Calculate the difference between two dates (days/months)
Calculating the difference between two dates is a common requirement and one that you will likely need to do at some point. Below you will find the best practice for calculating the difference between two days, and the best practice for calculating the difference between two months. While there are multiple ways to get to…
Improve Productivity: How to Optimize Scheduling of Products
Business Problem In manufacturing and production planning use cases, we often come across problem statements to solve for optimal product sequence on a production line. As different combinations of products can have different changeover times, a sub-optimal product sequence can impact the productivity of the production…
Stock Re-balancing between Stores
Hi Anaplan Experts, I'm trying to calculate the re-balancing of stocks from one store to another based on the logic below. Step 1: Rank Supplying Stores based on their available stock to give (OUT) Step 2: Rank Requesting Stores based on their needed stock to take (IN) Step 3: Re-allocate available stocks from Supplying…
HyperModel: five tips to improve your experience
Are you considering HyperModel for your ecosystem, or have you recently deployed it? Fantastic! We've compiled a shortlist of the top five tips to help make kicking off your HyperModel experience as smooth as possible. Check out these top five tips to improve your experience: 1. Recognize that the Hyperblock has not…
Dynamic Display by Language Selection
Problem Statement Ever wonder how to display your data in a different language format in Anaplan or simply just want to cater to language display options based on user selection? Step-by-step guide We need all the lists that require translation to be defined and it is best to have modules with definitions of each language…
Community perspective: Anaplan user license management
What is an Anaplan user license? Users get access to Anaplan based on the model role provided to that user. From an Anaplan commercial perspective, each Anaplan user is consuming one active Anaplan user license. On a high level, Anaplan has the following three types of user licenses: * Model builder * Contributor * Viewer…
How to prepare for the change to the default Modeling Experience - FAQs
What is happening? The New Modeling Experience will become the default experience in February 2023. It is replacing the Classic Modeling Interface but not eliminating Classic Dashboards or forcing you to use the UX Apps and Pages. What does that mean? Simply, the modeling interface is getting an update to the look and feel…
Tip for showing more than 400 items on a chart axis
Problem Statement There is a limit on the number of items that can be displayed on a chart axis in Anaplan. Per the Anapedia page on Chart Settings: Note: The maximum number of items that can be included in a chart axis is 400 items. How do I display my chart if my axis has more than 400 items? Solution (Workaround) While…
Forward Cover Functionality
Summary Statement In the supply chain horizontal, you may be asked to calculate a forward cover in Anaplan. In this article, we modified a best practice suggestion from @nathan_rudman based on a question posed by @mikhivin about accounts receivable coverage which looks backward. See this post on count back for turnover.…
Dynamic Ranking: Rank a Line Item Based on Selectors
Summary Level: Advanced In any line of business, you might be asked to create a dashboard that ranks the sales of your customers based on whatever values are displayed in a two-dimensional grid but based on multiple dimensions chosen from selectors by the user, including top levels. In this example, we will use four…
what does item() and code() do in lessons 6/7?
trying to figure out what each element in CODE(ITEM('E2 Employees#')) does - i have read the documentation https://help.anaplan.com/41298b7a-e877-40e8-8cfa-8d7009d8686f-ITEM and https://help.anaplan.com/0e20099c-af47-4343-9ad9-3a20b580d2de-CODE but still can't grasp the idea: what does item return? then what does code…
Changing the Sign for Aggregation
Use Case: In a lot of financial account hierarchies, costs are shown as positive numbers—but need to be subtracted from the totals. With Anaplan, this is easily achievable with line items. The line item formulae are as follows: * Margin = Sales – COGS * Profit = Margin – Costs This is a very simple example that is easily…
How to choose multiple departments in page selector
I'm creating dashboards for budget owners at my firm. In the dashboard I have a variance analysis module showing budget vs actual. If one of my page selectors is the department (Dev, Sales, G&A) and i wanted to show only software dev, and strategy under the dev department in the module how could i do it so that the budget…
Formula showing YTD actuals + Remaining Year Forecast
I'm looking to build a formula that would show the current YTD actual expenses, + the remaining year forecasted expenses to arrive to my FY total expenses. The current model we have set up adds together "Expense from direct Input plan" (Basically our YTD actuals) and adds this value to another column called "Expense from…
Hi, I am trying to map the E2 Employees# list subset mapping , pls tell me how to map here?
I have to get solution like this , see below screenshot
Community Perspective: Using OAUTH2 to develop custom Anaplan connector for Azure
Introduction The release of OAUTH2 authentication for the Anaplan API opens the door to developing more native connectors across all the major cloud platforms. In this article, I explain how you can configure a custom connector on Azure for use in Logic Apps. The benefit of a custom connector is that you can expose all the…
Retail: Markdown Planning
Summary As a buyer, you are responsible for managing your price reductions to a monthly markdown budget. But markdown management at your company is not that straightforward. You must also adhere to the company’s pricing policies when considering a new price for your items, including having to use price tiers, percentage…
Options for Override
Hi I have a module containing values that need to be reviewed and adjusted by an end user. The values are likely to need to be changed and there is often a high possibility that the value to override with is zero. The data is often copied between different dimensions. What options are available for methods to override…
Demystify non-linear optimization: Episode 2
Episode 2: Changeover optimization In Episode 1, we discussed how to configure optimizer to evaluate IF-THEN logic and multiplication of two binary variables. In this episode, we will be discussing how to solve a changeover issue for the beverage manufacturer. Changeover on a production line happens when the production…
[Part 2] Script example: Leveraging the SCIM API to bulk remove users
* Prerequisites * Getting started * High level process * Recommended usage * Script walkthrough * Section 1: Libraries * Section 2: Logging configuration * Section 3: SCIM API configuration * Section 4: Authentication * Section 5: Parse CSV file containing Users * Section 6: Call the SCIM to perform the selected operations…

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