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2024 Recertification Requirement Announcement: Using Workflow in Anaplan!
We're thrilled to announce our 2024 recertification process for Certified Model Builder, Certified Solution Architect, and Certified Master Anaplanner. Being a Certified Model Builder, Certified Solution Architect, or Certified Master Anaplanner means that you’re a highly qualified and valued part of the Anaplan ecosystem!…
How I Built It: Two-step approval process and audit trail
Greetings fellow Anaplanners! In this episode of ‘How I Built It’, I show you how I build a typical two-step approval process and corresponding audit trail in Anaplan. This functionality accomplishes the following requirements: Analyst users can submit a batch of process data or model results. The manager user then can…
How I Built It: Flagging new list items
Author: Chris Allen is a Certified Master Anaplanner and Manager at Allitix. Hello, and thank you for checking out my ‘How I Built It’ video tutorial on flagging new list items! The video will walk you through the process of flagging list items as "new." The key step in the process relies on an import to flag all current…
3.3.5.2A Beginning Inventory formula
Hello I need some help in this formula Beginning Inventory: This line item needs to display the value from the Beginning Inventory line item in DAT01 Beginning Inventory module for the first week of the year and the Ending Inventory from the previous week for all other weeks of the year. i have just created these in my…
November 2023 Community Member Spotlight: Julie Ziemer
This month we are shining the spotlight on @jziemer, who has been part of the Anaplan Community for over six years! A Certified Master Anaplanner since 2016, and a recently appointed Community Boss, Julie has been an incredible Community leader. Read more to learn about Julie's Anaplan journey, deep Anaplan knowledge, and…
November 2023 Community Q&A Challenge — join the discussion and collect a badge!
Building on the incredible success of our inaugural Community Q&A Challenge in September 2023, we're thrilled to announce our second Q&A Challenge! In the Anaplan Community, we've always believed that the key to success lies in members coming together to connect, share knowledge, and support one another. Your enthusiastic…
Can we capture a tenant-based date/time value?
With CloudWorks, we can schedule based on date/time with a selected time zone, but that is not involved in any user-facing functionality. As I am working through the new Workflow training, I realize that the platform is now providing interactions with end-users based on date/time values in a selected time zone. This has me…
Button on Dashboard not working
The picture above highlights the problem, every time i use the button Add Sub-GL/Vendor Item, the chart to the right should update with the name, GL account, for each department. I tried to add a new vendor expense under admin finance and legal called "anaplan", the gl account i choose was called software/subscriptions.…
2.3.10 Activity: Create Demand Forecast Sprint 2
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…
A grateful look at Anaplan's growth and Community impact
Author: Madison Matous is a Certified Master Anaplanner and Solution Architect at Akili Inc. The weather is staring to get cooler, and leaves are changing colors (neither completely apply in Texas though 😊) which means Thanksgiving in the U.S. is right around the corner. "Okay, I'm in my sweatpants! Bring on the food." —…
1.3.6.1 Create Build Region Saved View Level 2
1.3.6.1 Create Build Region Saved View Create a saved view for importing: Module Name: SYS05 Region Details Saved View Name: Build Region Include: Code and items Make sure to select SHOW for the Code line item and save the view. This will ensure that as new line items are added, they will not be included in the saved view…
How to unite an Anaplan Center of Excellence
Author: Nick Alvarez is a Certified Master Anaplanner and Manager, Anaplan Model Building Empowerment at Autodesk, Inc. Introduction We’re on a journey to unite Anaplanners across Autodesk under one Anaplan Center of Excellence (CoE). As we expand the Anaplan honeycomb and our models become more and more connected, we’ve…
An Anaplan rescue mission
Author: Daniel Badura is a Certified Master Anaplanner and Senior Consultant at valantic Business Analytics GmbH. Over the years, we have worked with clients at various stages of their Anaplan adoption journey. Some were just getting started, while others had been using it for several years and use cases. 2023 brought a…
Streamlining travel data: A comprehensive approach to trip parsing and expense linking
Author: Steven Kraplin is a Certified Master Anaplanner and Senior Financial Analyst at The MathWorks. In a recent project, I was faced with the task of designing a model that could efficiently consolidate travel data from various systems. The goal was to organize the data into trips and link all related expenses incurred…
A conversation with Avnish Goel — Journey | Anaplan Community Podcast
Join Dennis Lemoine, Sr. Program Manager of Community Events, for our eighth episode of Journey, an Anaplan Community podcast. This month we bring you Avnish Goel (@AvnishGoel), Certified Master Anaplanner at ScriptStory in the San Francisco Bay Area. Avnish is passionate about hands-on thought leadership in implementing…
Assigning List item based on Text line items and looking up - COMPLEX
Hi Community, To give the backstory of this - I have a module, where I first import one data file into, with Loan-Hedge ID List) and line items as the dimensions. The second file I import is a similar one, also with Loan-Hedge ID (List) and line items as the dimensions. When importing the first file, these Loan-Hedge IDs…
How I Built It: Number format converter (thousands and millions)
Hello Anaplanner Community! I’m excited to participate in another ‘How I Built It’ video with a Number Format Converter (thousands and millions) tutorial. This video walks you through how to dynamically update UX grid number formats on all tables and charts. This enables users to have different number formats enabled for…
How I Built It: Solving world’s hardest Sudoku with Anaplan Optimizer
About the Author: Tristan Colgate is a Certified Master Anaplanner and Managing Director at Fidenda. Hi Anaplan Community! I’m excited to bring a new and fun video to the Community ‘How I Built It’ tutorial series. In my video, I’ll walk through how I used Anaplan’s Optimizer to solve the world’s hardest Sudoku puzzle. In…
How I Built It: Combining two custom time schedules
Author: Moriah Reyes is a Certified Master Anaplanner and Manager at Lionpoint Group. Hello Anaplan Community! I’m excited to share my ‘How I Built It’ tutorial with you all. This video shows how you can cleverly use an index list and text list to combine two custom time schedules. Building a custom time schedule can be…
What does a home run ball look like?
Author: Aaron Overfors, Certified Master Anaplanner and Principal Architect at Spaulding Ridge. Not every software system is designed to do everything. In the early 2000s, however, this was the focus — one platform that could handle everything: resourcing, customer relationships, supply chain, HR, financial planning,…
2023 Certificate Maintenance for Certified Master Anaplanners
The 2023 Certified Master Anaplanner Program has begun and there is incredible opportunity for 2023 Certified Master Anaplanners (CMAs) to demonstrate their thought leadership, technical expertise, evangelism, and mentorship capabilities across the entire Anaplan Ecosystem! At their core, a Certified Master Anaplanner is…
Top five most useful recent updates and features
Author: Kathleen Sullivan, Certified Master Anaplanner, Solution Architect, and Manager at Cervello. Anaplan is constantly releasing new features to the modeling experience and to the user experience. These spark so much excitement for all Anaplan users because it increases usability for everyone, administrators, model…
How to convert an annual amount to a monthly amount
I have 2 modules, both dimensionalized by the same list and time (1 is by year and the other by month). I need to take the annual amount in module 1 and spread it over the monthly amount. I've tried spread(Annual Amount, 12) but I'm not able to get anything to populate in the monthly spread module. Any guidance would by…
A conversation with Shrankhla Singh — Journey | Anaplan Community Podcast
October may be Global Diversity Awareness Month, but the diversity in the Anaplan ecosystem is something we are proud of and celebrate every month! In our seventh episode of Journey, an Anaplan Community podcast, we are excited to introduce a new host to help showcase the variety of talent in our ecosystem. Bringing in new…
A conversation with Clarissa Hassfurder — Journey | Anaplan Community Podcast
Join Dennis Lemoine, Sr. Program Manager of Community Events, for our sixth episode of Journey, an Anaplan Community podcast. This month we bring you Clarissa Hassfurder (@clarissa), Certified Master Anaplanner, Certified Solution Architect, and CEO at Double10 Consulting. Clarissa has over a decade of software…
How I Built It: User-friendly hierarchy management
Author: Nikko Koutas is a Certified Master Anaplanner and Manager at Lionpoint Group. Hi Anaplan Community! Welcome and thank you for checking out my ‘How I Built It’ tutorial. In my video, I will showcase a user-friendly NUX page that can be leveraged by your end users to manage their manually maintained hierarchies. I…
Navigating pitfalls in solution delivery
James Snyder is a Certified Master Anaplanner and Practice Director - Supply Chain at Allitix Inc. As a consultant, my purpose is to build solutions for my clients that deliver value. I take great pride in my work and in driving meaningful change in organizations. However, the best laid plans can unravel as you move…
Remembering to keep the F.I.T in your model retrofit
Author: Taryn Townsend is a Certified Master Anaplanner and Senior Manager at Deloitte Consulting. As technologists and planners, our reflex is to look to the future. We strive to keep up-to-date on the newest and most optimized solutions for our clients and users. This can often lead us to opportunities to give our legacy…
Changing production models: corporate psychology vs. customer satisfaction
Author: Jared Dolich is a Certified Master Anaplanner and Partner and Founder at Retailitix. Consider this cartoon from Clowncurls. Maybe a bit exaggerated but sadly not too far from how Anaplan change requests come in. The question is how should you respond? Long ago I was a service desk manager for a 5000-store retailer,…

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