Operations Labor Planning - Retail

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Anaplan's Operations Labor Planning app connects HR, operations, and finance by viewing the impact of your retail's forecasted POS txns, labor hours, and expense down to the daily level leveraging historical actuals and statistical forecasting methods. Gain greater accuracy into your forecast by analyzing past holiday volumes to automatically create custom holiday profiles for use in weeks where applicable. Create new locations within the tool to view the impacts of a growing business, as well as phasing other locations out to view the repercussions of your overall POS txns.

View your POS Txns forecast for your retail store down to the daily level using historical actuals, forecasting methods, and automatic holiday profiles.

Make your forecast more accurate by using holiday profile seasonalities on holiday weeks.

Create new stores easily and then transfer that store to your current list to view the impact it would have on your overall business.

Forecast out POS Txns, hours, and labor expenses by retail store, by role, by day to gain insight of your business at a granular level.

Create and compare what-if scenarios to your labor assumptions. Easily transfer these what-if scenarios into your current plan.

Gain a holistic view of how your your historical and forecasted POS Txns. View certain weeks who's POS Txns were outside of a set threshold to dig deeper on why these anomalies happened.

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Information

App Last Updated

June 28th, 2017

Size

658 MB

Language

English

Terms & Conditions

App stats

Modules

110

Roles

3

Formulas

737

Reports

24

Complexity

Advanced

 

 

Features

Daily Statistical Forecasting

• Forecast out your POS Txns, hours, and labor expense using 17 different statistical forecasting methods. Best method is automatically selected based on historical best fit analysis with ability to override and adjust.

Scenario Planning

• Create custom seasonality profiles at the retail level, as well as the individual job role level to fine-tune your forecast for a specific week.

Cross functional Plan Reconciliation

• Multi-step workflow needed to override a value on a forecasted plan for POS Txns, labor hours, and labor expenses.

Holiday Planning

• Analyze past holiday business to automatically recommend adjusted volumes compared to typical days.

New Location Forecasting

• Create new locations with ease and base the seasonality off of current stores to see the impact to your overall business.

End of Life Location Planning

• Phase out locations and view its' impact in real-time.

Labor Rate Planning

• Forecast out POS Txns, labor hours, and labor expenses by role, by day to establish an accurate bottoms-up forecasting approach.

Productivity Analysis

• Set target POS Txns and labor expense per hour assumptions to view the financial impact of these changes.

Connect Finance, HR, and Operations to Make Decisions

• Leverage the connected planning of Anaplan by changing assumptions of your workforce down to the most granular level and view the financial repercussions downstream.

Anaplan

Anaplan is driving a new age of connected planning. Large and fast-growing organizations use Anaplan’s cloud platform in every business function to make informed decisions and drive faster, more effective planning processes. Anaplan also provides support, training, and planning transformation advisory services. Anaplan is a privately held company based in San Francisco with 16 offices and over 150 expert partners worldwide.

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http://www.anaplan.com

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contact@anaplan.com