Connecting your business with consistent data structures, planning methods, budgeting, and forecasting can enforce a common language. Most organizations struggle with disparate systems and data sources, nonstandard practices, and disconnected or ad hoc processes that cause inefficiencies and create risks, from human error, for example. A connected enterprise accelerates the data-to-insight-to-action loop, creates resilience, simplifies processes, and unlocks efficiency.Accelerated planning and agilityA global restaurant franchise usually carried out its planning activities once a year in its ERP using Excel. The process would take about six months to complete. Having upgraded to Anaplan before the pandemic hit, the company could …
