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Retail Group Virtual Meetup March 16th 11-12PM EST - Teaser #4
Here's the last teaser before the meetup next week. Hope you all can join! https://usergroups.anaplan.com/events/details/anaplan-retail-presents-retail-anaplan-group-q1-2021-virtual-meetup/#/
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Store Operations: Can they be Agile?
Hi Retail Team. Ran into this article today and thought I'd share it because it poses an interesting question about how planning, typically starting at the top and cascading down can be transformed to be more agile where top and bottom iterate with each other. What do you think? Can this be implemented in Anaplan?…
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Wow! The March Anaplan Release is all about Retail!!
Retail Anaplanners, If you haven't read @VickiA sneak preview or release notes before, this is the time to give it a try. https://community.anaplan.com/t5/Releases/February-2021-Releases-and-March-Sneak-Peek/ba-p/99663 In March the retail industry will be handed a major gift! In March, we should be getting these features:…
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Retail Group Virtual Meetup March 16th 11-12PM EST - Teaser #3
Retail Anaplanners! Less that a week away, March 16, for the Retail Anaplan Group quarterly meeting! We'll take a closer look at how OTB is used in Anaplan and how retailers are reacting to the Pandemic in record time. As a bonus we'll also see a demo of price management in Anaplan. Our special guest is Alicia Crowther and…
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Set Your Calendar | March 16th 11AM-12PM
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Retail Group Virtual Meetup March 16th 11-12PM EST
Hope you all can make it. Here's a promotion I put on LinkedIn. We'll cover open to buy in Anaplan, Price Management: Markdown planning, and the UX Research Program. You can register here. https://usergroups.anaplan.com/events/details/anaplan-retail-presents-retail-anaplan-group-q1-2021-virtual-meetup/#/
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Automate Current Date Import Using Python
Import and Automate Current Date Import to Anaplan Using Python By Jared Dolich Retail Planning Enthusiast Summary As a supply chain Anaplan data integration modeler, you might be asked by your business partner to display actuals for elapsed periods and forecasts for unelapsed periods. If you are not using the current…
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Retail Anaplan Group - February 2021 Update
Retail Anaplan Group Monthly Summary - 2021 February Headlines * @Stacey_Gibbens did a masterful job explaining Transactional API's 2/25/201. Check them out. * 1 New Members joined, raising the membership count to 134 * The Retail Group Leaders @Dsabo @BobD and @JaredDolich will be hosting a quarterly virtual meetup on…
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Q1 2021 Retail Anaplan Group Virtual Meetup
Retail Group!! Hopefully, you all got an invitation to join the Q1 Retail Anaplan Group meeting March 16th, from 11-12 a.m. EST (New York City). I know that's really early for you on the west coast and really late for you in Europe and Middle East. (sorry) I'm pretty sure these are recorded so if you can't make it we'll…
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Retail Group Quarterly Meet Up Proposal
@BobD @Dsabo Retail Anaplan Group! We're planning a get together (virtual still) in mid-March, tentatively 3/16 11a.m. EST, invite will be coming soon. Let us know if you have any particular topics you want to learn more about or discuss, we'll make sure we get the appropriate experts invited or demos created. For now, the…
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Anaplan Live! Spotlight: Transactional APIs is on Feb. 25
Join the Anaplan Community’s next Anaplan Live! Spotlight on Thursday, February 25 at 10 a.m. CST to hear how the latest updates to Anaplan APIs can benefit model builders. Connect live with top Anaplan experts to learn about what has changed, including the new transactional APIs, and how you can use them to create more…
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Announcement! Jarrod Rywolt Earns the Certified Anaplan Modeler Certification!
Retail Anaplanners! Get out your binoculars. Right at the top of that mountain stands Jarrod Rywolt who has successfully reached the summit and grabbed the coveted “Certified Anaplan Modeler” certification from Anaplan. It’s quite an investment in time. Congratulations Jarrod! Quite an amazing accomplishment.
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Learn all about Transactional APIs
Retail Team! @AaronW @HannahT What an opportunity. @Stacey_Gibbens, Master Anaplanner, will be highlighting the new API set. Join Stacey live during the Anaplan Community's next Anaplan Live! Spotlight on Thursday, February 25, 2021 at 11:00 a.m. EST to hear how the latest update to Anaplan APIs can benefit you. Check it…
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Announcement! Jarrod Rywolt Earns the Level 2 Model Building Certification!
One of our RAG members @JarrodRywolt has successfully earned his Level 2 Modeling Certification on the NEW UX! Congratulations @JarrodRywolt !!
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Retail Anaplan Group - January 2021 Update
Retail Anaplan Group Monthly Summary - 2021 January Headlines * 4 New Members joined, raising the membership count to 133 * Announcements | Discussions* Ralph Lauren Retail Brand Still Strong (Link) * Community Boss 2021 Announcement (Link) * How to Integrate Anaplan, Excel, and PowerPoint (Link) New Members * 4 New…
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How to Integrate Anaplan, Excel, and PowerPoint
Retail enthusiasts! I was super fortunate to have my blog post on how to integrate Anaplan, Excel, and PowerPoint on the Anaplan Blog Site. In this article, I show how to export data from Anaplan, format it in Excel, and generate one PowerPoint slide for each row. The use case is about how to manage business requirements,…
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Community Boss 2021 Announcement
Good news Retail Anaplan Group! Just wanted to share some good news that we have renewed representation on the Community Boss team. I was really fortunate to be asked to join this group of 25 people again this year, for 2021. Here's the…
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Ralph Lauren Brand Still Strong
Hi retail groupies! Just read this quick blog from Jane Singer about her perspective on one of America's iconic brands, Ralph Lauren. Ralph Lauren, an Anaplan customer, continues to be a strong brand but had to make some difficult decision in 2020. What I found interesting was how RL branched out into other businesses,…
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Retail Anaplan Group - December 2020 Update
Retail Anaplan Group Monthly Summary - 2020 December Headlines * Anaplan Live! was held on December 9th. While the Retail Anaplan Group didn't have a formal session, many were in attendance. * 2 New Members joined, raising the membership count to 129 * The Retail Group Leaders @Dsabo @BobD and @JaredDolich met in early…
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Have you registered for Anaplan Live!?
Don’t miss Anaplan Live! on December 9! Register today for this live, free event created specifically with model builders in mind. Choose from four educational tracks that will help you boost your model building expertise, and interact live with expert presenters to get your questions answered. Register…
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Retail Anaplan Group - November 2020 Update
Retail Anaplan Group Monthly Summary - 2020 November Headlines * 4 New Members joined, raising the membership count to 127. * Announcements | Discussions* The importance of the DAG, Directed Acyclic Graph, Anaplan's primary calculation methodology.(Blog) * How to detect retail sales trends with machine learning (Knowledge…
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Welcome Denise Sabo - Retail Anaplan Group Leader!
Retail Anaplan Group Members! Some good news. Denise Sabo: @Dsabo , Sr. Manager of Planning Systems at Ralph Lauren, has agreed to join the Retail Anaplan Group as a Group Leader. This is truly an historic moment. In the last 6 months we've grown this group from 12 members to 127 making it the second Largest Anaplan Group…
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Retail UAG - Invitation to Join
Navigation: Retail UAG Home | Forum | Get Started - Content Directory Hi! I’d like to invite you to a new user’s group specifically for retail industry enthusiasts with an interest in retail planning. Our solution focus uses Anaplan and our mission is simple: A single website where retail practitioners can network, learn,…
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Big News! Power BI and Anaplan
Retail Anplanners! It is now possible to natively connect to Anaplan through Power BI. Big Win. Big Win! https://community.anaplan.com/t5/Releases/Announcing-the-Anaplan-Connector-for-Power-BI/ba-p/89942
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Detecting Retail Sales Trends with Machine Learning
Navigation: Retail Anaplan Group Home | Forum | Get Started - Content Directory Retail Knowledge | Detecting Trend INTRODUCTION Using machine learning to detect a sales trend is a science and an art. Obviously no computer program or set of calculations could ever know everything that’s going on with your business. The…
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Anaplan Live! Event - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
Retail Anaplanners! Great opportunity to see one of the greatest events at Anaplan. We haven't decided yet if we'll be having a separate retail AG meeting but regardless, I highly recommend you join this webinar. The energy alone will inspire you!!…
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What is D.A.G and Why Is It Important for Retail Anaplanners? Part I Introduction
Part I | Calculations in Anaplan | Introduction We're about to go deep into the mind of the architects of Anaplan's calculation engine, the D.A.G. or the "Directed Acyclic Graph", so fair warning for what will be a mind-blowing journey! You're probably wondering why we're writing about this. @BobD and I ( @JaredDolich )…
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Retail Anaplan Group - October 2020 Update
Retail Anaplan Group Monthly Summary - 2020 October Headlines * 9 New Members joined, raising the membership count to 123. * Announcements | Discussions* Death of Fast Fashion (The Robin Report) * @mskinner and @mharris reach the certified modeler certification. Congratulations!! (Marc and Michele) * How the Myers Briggs…
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Great Accelytics Article Comparing Blue Yonder and Anaplan
Retail Anaplanners! Chris Louttit @clouttit over at Accelytics wrote up a pretty good comparison for a retail CIO between BY and Anaplan. Thought you might enjoy it - link is below. You can also request to watch his webinar which is mind blowing – very convincing. I did pose two questions to Chris regarding the awkwardness…
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The Myers Briggs Type Indicators and Anaplan Roles
Hello Retail Anaplan Group!! Which of these 10 personality types and Anaplan Role is most congruent to your own? Do these Anaplan roles have a stereotypical personality type? +5 Kudos if you can figure out which one is @JaredDolich MBTI. INTJ | Solution Architect “There’s a 95.3% probability I’ll learn something new at the…
