Modeling

Business Problem & Current Limitation Current State: In our current Polaris implementation, the cumulative dimension index across just five core business dimensions has reached 55. The Constraint: With a hard ceiling at 64, this leaves a headroom of only 9 remaining indexes across the entire workspace/model scope. Direct…

As an Anaplan user tasked with helping your teams better understand their data through your Anaplan UX dashboards, we want to hear more about what your end users tell you. What kinds of visualizations are they are asking you for, what do they struggle with in accessing and understanding your data, and how you resolve those…

Hi All, Has anyone completed exercise # 4.8.2 Activity: Import Data into E2 Employees# List? I am not able to procced with this, can anyone j

Using below mapping trying to get to but instead I am getting below, what am I doing wrong? I am actually on Lesson 6.10.2 Activity: Add Formulas to Department Details Module , but because I am unable to import and map the E1 departments lists the correct way I am stuck. Please help.

Let me know what am I doing wrong here. getting different result while importing. 

When you inherit or start optimizing a large Anaplan model, what usually takes the most time? A. Understanding the existing model structure and dependencies B. Finding and optimizing slow or complex formulas C. Cleaning up unnecessary modules, line items, or lists D. Documentation and understanding why certain design…

Greetings, fellow Anaplanners. I’ve always wanted something that could take thousands of line items and help me work out where to start improving a model. So I built it. It’s called Anaplan Estate. Give it your Line Items and Actions exports, and it brings optimisation findings into an action plan, with evidence and…

The blueprint view screen shot for SYS12 SKU Details is shown below: The P2 Product Flat screenshot is: The P3 SKU Flat screen Shot is: The error detail message is: And the SYS12 SKU Details screenshot is: Any suggestion/advise what I am doing wrong. Thank you.

Author: Chandresh Lad is a Product Manager at Anaplan. Every mature Anaplan environment has models that eventually reach the end of their active life. The challenge is knowing what should happen next. As Anaplan environments mature, the number of models naturally grows. New planning processes are introduced, existing…

Hi everyone 👋 If you build or maintain Anaplan models, you've probably hit the same walls I kept hitting. Some basic questions about a model's structure have no single screen to answer them. You end up clicking through modules and pages one by one, or writing API scripts just to get a list. These were the gaps that…

Hello, One of my models is generating this issue: "PLANNED Position # has selective access enabled and you may not have been granted access to any items." When I try to adjust the selective access, it then says "no items to select". I'm unsure what caused this issue and how to correct it. Any help sincerely appreciated.…

Does anyone have advice on building a formula that properly calculates longevity for employees that includes an escalator based on their job effective date? I have everything built in the model but I cannot figure out how to get it to include the increases. Assuming someone is paid 20 dollars per month for every 2 years…

We have discovered that Line Item Subsets cause unexpected behaviour in Polaris: their mere existence adds significantly to model size and calculation demand. This overhead is undocumented (it appears in neither Anapedia nor the Planual) and is not visible to the model builder during building. The only way to detect it is…

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Problem: Co-modeler often suggests formulas that don't work - invalid syntax, or timeouts requiring manual copy/paste that still fails. This forces users to debug the suggestion and explain the model's structure back to the tool (often having to leverage another AI like Chat or Claude) instead of just applying a working…

Author: Chandresh Lad is a Product Manager at Anaplan. Building a great model is a significant achievement. Keeping it effective, reliable, and easy to manage as the business evolves is a different challenge. Many Anaplan implementations begin with a clear objective: deliver a planning solution that meets an immediate…

In current standard grid modules and UX Grids you can't Collapse & Expand hierarchies of Lists/Line Items/Sublist like you can do in Excel (see below). Considering that sometimes hierarchies can be huge or you want to Collapse one part but Expand another - it would be good to have such functionality

Author: Luke Grady is a Certified Master Anaplanner and Solution Architect at Tru Consulting. This article will cover ideas related to metadata within an Anaplan model. Metadata are lists and modules that model builders can create related to the model itself. These metadata provide information about models to stakeholders,…

Anaplan allows users to quickly see cell change history for a given cell, which is great. As a model builder, I'd love to have a similar functionality to easily Show History for line items - formula changes for sure, but ideally also changes in format, dimensions, and summary methods, along with the name of the user making…

“Rule 2.02-12": Article 2, Chapter 2, and Rule 12 – “No Hardcoding to List Members”. “Avoid direct references to list item. E.g. IF ITEM(list) = list.xx. It goes against SUSTAINABLE elements of PLANS if you wish to go against this rule Here is how it was done in Pre Planual Era: Hardcoding to list items used to be a norm.…

A practical design guide for model builders who want allocation models to answer not only what changed, but why it changed. Author: Sripriya Rao is a Tech Lead at Prudential Financial and an Anaplan Solution Architect. Audience: Model Builders, Solution Architects, CoE Teams Quick takeaway: Accurate allocation results are…

Hello everyone, Has anyone (from talent builder program) been able to be granted page builder role and download the formulas and functions app ? Cannot and I would love too. Thanks a lot

In order to support varied testing and especially split-model deployments (same dev model with different data sets/time periods), it would be useful to have Time Ranges be Production Data. This will provide value in allowing all deployed models linked to the development model to be configured independently and save on…

Currently, when approvers are assigned dynamically from a module line item, a Decision Task proceeds as soon as any one of the assigned users approves it. Please extend the “Require approval from all assignees” option, which is currently available for manually selected approvers, to dynamically assigned approvers as well.…

If an AI agent could build your next Anaplan module from a plain-language prompt, would you trust it, or would you still rebuild it yourself line by line? Curious to hear how comfortable people would be with AI-generated Anaplan models and what level of validation you would expect before using the output.

What's the #1 bottleneck in your Anaplan build cycle right now? A. Model documentation B. Onboarding new builders C. Optimizing slow formulas Curious which one takes the most time for your team and how you're currently addressing it.

The new expand/collapse functionality for hierarchies on rows is a great improvement! It would be helpful to have the same functionality when a hierarchy is pivoted to the columns. This would give users more flexibility in how they structure a view while still being able to hide or show detail. It would also be useful to…

Hi All, I am stuck in this exercise almost 2 hour, not able to proceed further. Can anyone please help? I have added line item "Country Made in" SYS08 SKU details module. Now i know that the formula in Safety stock flag count would be 'INV01 Inventory Ordering'.Safety Stock Exception Count[SUM: 'SYS08 SKU Details'.Country…

Has anyone deployed Anaplan Analyst across multiple connected apps or workspaces? How do you handle context switching so the agent doesn’t mix up assumptions or hierarchies between models?