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Anaplan announced new AI innovations, including the availability of Anaplan CoModeler, Custom Analyst, and Agent Studio, alongside the launch of 12 new purpose-built, out-of-the-box applications to key enterprise planning workflows.
“The mandate to adopt AI has created a new critical challenge for business decision-making: AI must do more than retrieve answers — it must compute them with precision and confidence,” says Adam Thier, chief product and technology officer, Anaplan. “That is why we’ve architected our platform to be the computational engine that connects every operational choice to its financial outcome. This gives our customers the ability to see the full impact of a decision before they make it, allowing them to respond to market changes faster and capitalize on opportunities others can’t see.”
Key takeaways:
· Anaplan combines the conversational access and reasoning power of large language models (LLMs) with a deterministic planning engine to promote accurate, traceable, and auditable calculations.
· Built on proven machine learning, explicit business logic, and real-time calculation models, Anaplan delivers precise, reliable insights. Anaplan provides the business context AI needs to interpret enterprise data and enable the precision required for agile decision-making.
● Anaplan CoModeler: An intelligent, role-based AI agent for the architects of enterprise planning, CoModeler empowers model builders to create, extend, and optimize planning models with greater speed and consistency.
● Anaplan Custom Analyst and Agent Studio: A toolkit that reduces development time and ensures full governance and control for deploying custom AI assistants, allowing customers to leverage generative, conversational AI to gain immediate insights from their custom-built models.
o Project Cost Planning: Connects project spending directly to financial strategy with real-time visibility into budgets, timelines, and resource allocation, keeping investments on track and maximizing return on investment (ROI).
o Profitability Analysis: Provides real-time transparency into costs, returns, and performance with flexible, adaptable models that allow leaders to test allocation strategies, assess risk, and optimize outcomes before committing capital.
o Subscription Revenue Planning: Unifies finance targets and sales execution on a single platform to build more accurate forecasts, model recurring revenue with precision, and drive predictable, sustainable growth.
o Consensus Margin Planning: Bridges the gap between finance and supply chain by aligning top-down financial targets with operational realities to protect margins, maximize profitability, and enable more confident, data-driven decisions.
o Software Spend Optimization: Gives IT and finance control over software spend and aligns technology investments with business priorities through unified contract data, proactive renewal management, and powerful scenario planning.
o Trade Promotion Management: Strategically plans and executes retail promotions with clear visibility into spend and performance, enabling teams to allocate funds more effectively and maximize promotional ROI.
o Spend Analysis and Forecasting: Automates variance analysis and delivers accurate spend forecasts with real-time visibility into cost drivers, improving financial control and predictability.
o Assortment Planning: Defines a precise pre-season inventory strategy by aligning product mix to each store or channel, matching local demand to maximize sell-through.
o Allocation and Replenishment Planning: Executes with in-season precision by forecasting location-level demand and generating inventory recommendations that reduce stockouts, protect margin, and ensure the right product is in the right place at the right time.
o Contact Center Planning: Understands contact center capacity and creates staffing plans that balance service levels, control labor costs, and close skill gaps.
o Project Resource Planning: Optimizes talent allocation with visibility into project demand and supply, ensuring complex projects are delivered on time, on budget, and at high quality.
o Sales Forecasting: Enables accurate, intelligent go-to-market forecasts with dynamic scenario modeling and real-time pipeline visibility, empowering leaders to drive predictable, repeatable revenue performance.