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A conversation with Austin van der Linden — Journey | Anaplan Community Podcast
Welcome to our second podcast episode of 2024! Tune in today to hear Dennis Lemoine (@DennisL), Director of Customer Engagement & Experience, chat with Austin van der Linden (@Austinv) — Certified Master Anaplanner, Certified Solution Architect, and Corporate FP&A Technical Lead at Dentsply Sirona. Austin has been with…
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Certified Master Anaplanner Eligibility
Certified Master Anaplanners are Anaplan’s most experienced platform evangelists who share a common technical language and are involved in the structural development of their models. Anaplan's current customers, registered partners, and employees are all eligible to become a Certified Master Anaplanner, given they're…
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A conversation with Misbah Ansari — Journey | Anaplan Community Podcast
We’re kicking off our 2024 podcast season with a well-known Community name! Join host Kas Gengadaren (@KasG), Anaplan’s APAC Ecosystem Manager, as she interviews one of top Community members — Misbah Ansari (@Misbah), Certified Master Anaplanner, Anaplan Community Boss, Planual co-admin, and CEO and Founder at Miz Logix.…
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How do I use a line item formatted by a month for mapping in a column dimensionalized by time
I have a value (in this instance it is the number 13 in January 24) that I need to populate in the line item below it in the month of February 25. The entire module is dimensionalized by time (month). The Feb 25 formula is an add months function that references an input from a different module based on the quarter of the…
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New Academy badging for Certified Master Anaplanners and Solution Architects!
The Anaplan Academy is thrilled to share some exciting news with you! In response to your valuable feedback and to enhance the recognition of your achievements, the Academy is thrilled to announce the launch of our highly anticipated Anaplan Certification Badge, designed to showcase your expertise in Anaplan and provide…
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How I Built It: Fantasy Football draft
Author: Zach Hird is a Certified Master Anaplanner and Senior Consultant at Peloton Consulting Group. Hello Anaplanners! Learn how I used Anaplan to aid my fantasy football draft experience in this fun and different ‘How I Built It’ tutorial. I use live fantasy football data to give myself a competitive advantage while…
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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…
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A conversation with our Community Bosses — Journey | Anaplan Community Podcast
2023 is rapidly coming to an end, and to wrap up the year we invited a few of our Community Bosses to join Dennis Lemoine, Director of Customer Engagement & Experience, for our nineth episode of Journey, an Anaplan Community podcast. Please welcome: Andrew Tye (@andrewtye) , Anaplan Process Developer at Aviva. Location:…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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." —…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…