Put structure, speed, consistency, collaboration, and accuracy into your FP&A process for Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) with Anaplan. 

Connect all your financial plans together with less effort and more accuracy. Seamlessly combine financial and operational drivers at a product or SKU level, and integrate planning at scale across your entire enterprise.

Define and analyze strategic objectives at a product or SKU level to cascade up to annual plan. Model and perform “what-if” analysis at a product or SKU level to evaluate financial impact before finalizing your corporate strategy.
Cascade plans top-down by key dimensions (including product and SKU) and build budgets with bottom-up detail to improve collaboration, reduce iterations, and align plan, budget, and forecast.
Easily create complex models and “what-if” scenarios on-the-fly that answer complicated financial questions and span multiple areas of the business—with no coding.
Complete reporting for every stakeholder need (including reporting by product and SKU), such as integrated financial reporting (P&L, balance sheet, cash flow), management reports, board books, and statutory reports, plus Microsoft Office add-ins for Excel® and PowerPoint®.

Information

Business Function

Financial planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting

Industry

CPG

Size

2 GB

Language

English

Connects to

S&OP app, Sales Forecasting app, Financial Consolidation app, and any HR software

App stats

Modules

200

Roles

5

Formulas

1200+

Reports

50

Complexity

Master

Why Anaplan for Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting for CPG?

Get your planning and budgeting for CPG done faster, more accurately, and with less effort across all of your plans, budgets, forecasts, and models—all connected in one system. Anaplan links financial, sales, and operational plans together for accurate, big-picture financial planning and analysis across your entire enterprise.

Plan and forecast for any revenue or cost type based on product and SKU drivers that matter to your business. FP&A can create one or multiple revenue or cost models to reflect nuances specific to goods, services, single purchases, exchange rates, and commodity prices. Create plans that truly represent the reality of your business—planning and budgeting for CPG for any driver, in any model.

Use Anaplan’s Financial Planning and Analysis app to create plans, models, or hierarchies using normal language formulas and spreadsheet-like “click-not-code” methods. FP&A can plan, manage, and make immediate changes as opportunities and challenges arise—without dependence or burden on IT. With Anaplan, you have full control and responsibility so you can drive the results your company needs.

Build and compare any scenario from aggressive to conservative, “what-if,” and more. Create unlimited dimension lists and hierarchies to represent your business and change them on-the-fly with a simple drag and drop. No coding or batch wait time required with Anaplan’s planning and budgeting app. Plan by any time bucket, too—day, week, month, or year.