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Make your voice heard! Vote for CONSTANT disaggregation rule: Prices, Ratios, Percentages
Retail champions! Now is our chance to let Anaplan know that we need this disaggregation rule where we can edit a percentage, ratio, or price formatted line item at the parent level and have all the children below get the same value. Right now, only summable disaggregation works with breakback. Click here for all the…
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Assign Landing Pages are here!
Thanks @andrewtye for noticing. You can now assign a landing page to users in the UX. https://community.anaplan.com/discussion/158040/user-role-landing-pages-in-ux-available
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Quarterly Meeting for Modelers
Highly recommend that you all go. Perhaps we'll see the new modeling interface? I've seen some screenshots and they are incredible looking. Here's the linked in post from @KirillKuznetsov https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7179394367797768193/ And here is the link to register for the event!…
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Anaplan Connect - Boston, MA October 11-12
Anaplanners, Great opportunity to visit with your retail colleagues in person. I attended NYC and Atlanta and had a great time meeting and listening to Anaplan customers. Also, a great time to recruit modelers for your team. https://events.anaplan.com/anaplanconnectboston https://events.anaplan.com/aceanaplancommunityevent
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Anaplan Connect - San Diego June 5-7
Anaplanners, Great opportunity to visit with your colleagues in person. I attended NYC and Atlanta and had a great time meeting and listening to Anaplan customers. Also, a great time to recruit modelers for your team. Look up @StaceyBrooks master anaplanner leader while your there.…
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World Retail Congress - Preliminary Conversations
Retail team! Ian McGarrigle, chairperson for the World Retail Congress, (April 25 in Barcelona) summarized his preliminary conversations with retail execs. Great summary and he even gives us the retailers that are focused on these areas. Here's the link:…
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Bob Debicki Published in "The Current" | Inventory Planning
@BobD was published in The Current - discussing inventory planning, particularly how the pandemic has created an inventory apocolypse. Check it out! https://thecurrent.media/inventory-planning
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Join Nomad Foods, Anaplan and VueAlta for a Price Sensitivity Fireside Chat
Hello Community! 1️⃣ Feeling the P&L pressure from commodity inflation? 2️⃣ Trying to master ever-changing consumer and shopper shifts? 3️⃣ Unsure on whether to pass price increases on to your customers? Join our Pricing Sensitivity webinar with Nomad Foods, Anaplan & VueAlta and discover how the team at Nomad are tackling…
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New Global Program Manager for User Groups
Hello dear Members ! I hope you are all good, My name is Sylvain Armand, and I am the new Global Program Manager for the User Groups Program. I am part of the Anaplan journey for the last 3,5 years as a Customer Success Business Partner, working closely with customers every days. As my name can suggest, I am based in EMEA.…
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8/3/2022 MFP Roadmap - Recording and Presentation
Hello retail anaplanners! Here is the link to the webinar. Also, attached is the PowerPoint presentation. Great seeing you all there!
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Join Us for a Merchandise Financial Planning Webinar
Hey Community!! Jared and I are doing a MFP webinar on Wednesday, August 3rd at 11AM EST. To sign up click here: https://lnkd.in/eGeyx2JC Many customers and prospects want to create their next generation merchandising capabilities to more successfully compete in the marketplace. We want to share proven practices to…
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Image in a Grid and Word Wrap Demo!
Retail team! Just a quick reminder, tomorrow will be the demo for image in a grid and word wrap. The user story is a floor set for our sandal assortment. We'll create some wedge plans, then give each store one of those wedges. From there we'll break out the sandals by size so we get an accurate depiction of what each store…
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Macy's Looking for Anaplan'rs for their merchandise financial planning project
Hi All, wanted to post 6 job openings at Macy's in case anyone is interested in applying. https://ebwh.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1001/requisitions?keyword=anaplan&mode=location
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Lululemon | Good Example of How to Pivot
Retail Friends, Just finished reading this article from Robin Lewis about Lululemon and how they've navigated the changes in the retail industry. Truly inspiring story. 5 min read - well worth it. https://www.therobinreport.com/mirror-mirror-on-the-wall-whos-the-fairest-of-us-all/
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New Anaplan Title! Master Anaseller! Check it out - BIG RETAIL WIN!!!
Macy's Department Stores has chosen Anaplan for Merchandise Planning. The time of Retail + Anaplan has come. Thank you Joe Guilfoyle, best Anaplan AE in the world. What a team we made.
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Job Aid: How to Use the New Model Search
Retail Team!! @VickiA posted all the New Modeling UX features in this post. Just wanted to show you where the "Model Search" magnifying glass is located. Took me a while to find it. It's terrific! Already used it to clean up one of my models - used it to search for line items used for filters that I want to change,…
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SUM function for Retail
Retail Champions! Here is the complementary video to the LOOKUP function. Today, I present the SUM function. Nice and easy example to get your day started. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjXdPKtVW1U
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LOOKUP Function for Retail
Anaplan Retailers! Just started a YouTube Channel where I will be introducing builds solutions for various use cases. In my first video, I build a LOOKUP function. This video is at the beginner level and introduces a simple retail example of how to set the Regional Top Level Targets to the respective stores.…
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Retail Team - Anaplan Live! November 9th and 10th.
Anaplan champions! Great opportunity to hear from the Anaplan executives and from top customers on their Anaplan journey/experience. https://www.anaplan.com/live/ If you're not sure, just check out these two - look what happens when they touch their monitor!!
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More on Amazon Department Stores
Happy October Retail Team! Well, last month I mentioned to you the Amazon department stores. Well they're almost here. What I wouldn't do to see their planning process. Anyone know about it? https://www.therobinreport.com/zon-is-coming-to-your-hood For me, this entire initiative to open stores by Amazon is a testament to…
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How to Reorder a List
Retail Anaplanners! New functionality came out today 9/26/2020 that makes ordering lists much easier. Release Notes: https://community.anaplan.com/t5/Releases/What-s-New-September-26-2020/ba-p/85429 Documentation: https://help.anaplan.com/anapedia/Content/Modeling/Build%20Models/Actions/Order-list.html A game changer for…
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Everlane | Interview with Jim Cramer and CEO Michael Preysman
Retail team! I've been working with a lot of hypergrowth eCommerce companies (digital only) and their sudden interest in opening stores surprised me until I saw this 10 minute interview with Michael Preysman, the CEO of Everlane on why digital only formats need to consider opening stores. Quote is at 5:45 about why brick &…
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Retail Anaplan Group - August 2021 Update
Retail Anaplan Group Monthly Summary - 2021 August Headlines * Retail Anaplan Group just passed through the 200 member mark, maintaining our number one spot among the regional and special interest groups. Way to go! Thank you @Dsabo @SherylB @BobD the most awesome group leadership team! * 4 New Members joined, raising the…
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August Release Notes | Check Them Out!
Retail Team, @Misbah has published his monthly notes on the new features released in August. Here's the link: https://community.anaplan.com/t5/Modelers-Forum-India/August-2021-Release/m-p/118497/highlight/false#M48
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Big Win for Retail + Anaplan | Jon Rubel Certified!
Retail team! Big kudos to @JonRubel for passing his level 1. Get ready world, here come the Anaplan modelers with tons of retail business experience. Hew-Wee! Just made me happier than a gopher in soft dirt!
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Here's Why In-Store Experience is Still Relevant
Retail enthusiasts! Well, this article will wrap up this month's theme about the importance in-store experience has on retail, and in particular, the Anaplan planning aspects necessary to support them. In this article from Chain Store Age, Dan Berthiaume, shares the results of 1,000 shoppers survey respondents, lending…
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Amazon Stores Opening | Here We Go!
Hi Retail Team, Well the time has come. I think our theme this month is digital only stores that are discovering the importance of opening stores. Now it's Amazon's turn (well, attempt #2, I guess). What are your takeaways? Was Michael Presyman, CEO of Everlane, correct? How would you modify your planning process to…
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What are the retail trends right now? Watch this!
Ethan Chernofsky of Placer.ai spent an hour with Robin Lewis describing all the retail trends taking place right now. What I like most about this 1 hour presentation is that Ethan backs up all his findings and theories with evidence. Ethan debunked a lot of myths for me, particularly the ones related to the pandemic.…
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IMPORTANT! 2022 Recertification
Retail Anaplanners!! Just a heads up. To get recertified as a model builder or solution architect for 2022 you must take this 10 question quiz on new Anaplan Features. Don't worry. It's open book and you can use Anapedia (highly recommended) https://learning.anaplan.com/course/view.php?id=1536 Tag: @ChrisMullen…
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OTIF | How do you define it?
Retail enthusiasts! Ran into an interesting article/topic. Nancy McCurdy, Anaplan Account Exec out of Dallas, TX, mentioned this article in LinkedIn. It's about the trouble with defining OTIF, or on time, in full. We all know how important this metric is, especially when measuring supplier performance, but how should it be…
