Forrester TEI研究显示，anplan的投资回报率为303%

Expand your expectations of what a truly connected enterprise planning platform can do.\n

Every CXO knows that prioritizing change can be hard. It often takes a few painful problems to push your organization to invest in a platform for major operational activities, such as planning. It’s natural, then, that such an investment is viewed through the prism of those problems and how well they’re resolved.

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Adopting a platform for Connected Planning, like Anaplan, has a broad impact across the entire organization, often in ways that are hard to imagine. Connected Planning can save money, boost productivity, and minimize risk, and it also helps organizations solve problems they’ve wrestled with for years–problems that seemed beyond a solution.

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Understanding those benefits in the abstract is difficult. Luckily, market researcher firm Forrester has made them much more concrete in a new commissioned Total Economic Impact study. To understand what the use of Connected Planning means to users, Forrester conducted interviews with multiple Anaplan customers, learning how they were handling the planning process before Anaplan and what the effects of their use of Anaplan have been. From there, Forrester used these customers’ real-world results to create a composite profile of a representational Anaplan user.

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Planning productivity by the numbers

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The numbers, by themselves, are impressive. Over three years, Forrester’s composite company enjoys:

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• 303% return on investment
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• $43.08 million in present-value benefits
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• 10–20% reduction of inventory value balance
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• 40% improvement in workforce planning productivity
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• 0.5–1.5% reduction in SG&A cost ratio
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Those – and other significant savings and improvements that Forrester assigned a percentage or dollar value to –represent a strong argument in favor of the investment in Anaplan by themselves. But the investment in Connected Planning also impacts other areas that have been headaches for planners for years. Although those problems may not be easy to attach a dollar value to, you’ll recognize their importance if you’ve ever been part of a planning process.

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New solutions to old collaboration issues

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For example, moving to a Connected Planning profile requires organizations to adopt uniform language, practices, and restrictions, both for process orchestration and data management. This gets the entire organization speaking the same language and reduces errors and data misinterpretations in the process.

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It also has impact on the outlook of the people involved in planning. With consistent planning practices and increased collaboration, analysts from finance, sales, marketing, workforce, and supply chain understand how their colleagues’ findings were calculated, giving them the confidence to act on the data faster. Reducing the stress and time of planning cycles builds employee satisfaction and helps with retention. And automating data collection on a platform means analysts, planners, and IT staff can spend more time understanding the data and less time struggling to compile it.

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Not surprisingly, the Forrester TEI report says that these factors contribute to the organization’s ability to better prepare for and manage rapid change.

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扩展您对真正连接的企业规划平台的期望。

每个首席执行官都知道，确定变化的优先顺序是很困难的。通常需要一些痛苦的问题来推动您的组织为主要的操作活动(如计划)投资一个平台。因此，通过这些问题及其解决情况的棱镜来看待这样一项投资是很自然的。

采用像anplan这样的互联规划平台，对整个组织产生了广泛的影响，通常以难以想象的方式。互联计划可以节省资金，提高生产力，降低风险，还可以帮助组织解决他们多年来一直纠结的问题——这些问题似乎无法解决。

抽象地理解这些好处是困难的。幸运的是，市场研究公司弗雷斯特在一项新委托中让它们变得更加具体整体经济影响研究。为了了解互联规划的使用对用户意味着什么，Forrester采访了多个anplan客户，了解他们在使用anplan之前是如何处理规划过程的，以及他们使用anplan的效果是什么。从那里，Forrester使用这些客户的真实结果来创建一个具有代表性的anplan用户的复合配置文件。

通过数字来规划生产力

这些数字本身就令人印象深刻。在过去的三年里，福雷斯特的综合公司享有:

• 投资回报率为303%
• 4308万美元的现值收益
• 减少10-20%的存货价值余额
• 劳动力规划生产力提高40%
• 降低0.5-1.5%的SG&A成本比率

福瑞斯特给出了一个百分比或美元价值，这些以及其他显著的节省和改进，都是支持他们自己投资Anaplan的有力理由。但是，对互联规划的投资也影响了多年来一直困扰规划者的其他领域。虽然这些问题可能不容易用金钱来衡量，但如果你曾经参与过规划过程，你就会意识到它们的重要性。

针对旧协作问题的新解决方案

例如，迁移到Connected Planning概要文件要求组织采用统一的语言、实践和限制，用于流程编排和数据管理。这使得整个组织使用同一种语言，并减少了过程中的错误和数据误解。

它还会影响参与规划的人的观点。通过一致的计划实践和增加的协作，来自财务、销售、营销、劳动力和供应链的分析师了解他们同事的发现是如何计算的，从而使他们有信心更快地根据数据采取行动。减少计划周期的压力和时间可以提高员工满意度，并有助于留住员工。在平台上自动收集数据意味着分析师、计划人员和IT人员可以花更多的时间来理解数据，而不用花太多时间来编译数据。

毫不奇怪，Forrester的TEI报告称，这些因素有助于组织更好地准备和管理快速变化的能力。