A Leader in supply chain planning overall

Anaplan has been recognized as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Supply Chain Planning Overall 2024 Vendor Assessment. We believe this achievement underscores our unique ability to meet the evolving needs of supply chain organizations globally while enabling innovation and scalability. “With advancements in ML/AI, automation, and optimization (and scenario modeling) and making data modeling less complicated, Anaplan offers a compelling option for those looking to improve connected planning, integration across functions, and scalability with a keen eye to financial trade-offs.” 

Understanding the IDC MarketScape assessment

Complexity and disruption test the resilience of even the most established businesses. The IDC MarketScape evaluates 19 vendors in the Worldwide Supply Chain Planning Overall Vendor Assessment based on comprehensive criteria to deliver actionable insights for business leaders. By providing an impartial evaluations of vendors, the IDC MarketScape helps supply chain executives choose solutions that align with their business goals. 

For supply chain planning (SCP) professionals, this report is more than a guide – it's a roadmap to finding solutions that drive measurable success.

IDC MarketScape vendor analysis model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of technology and suppliers in a given market. The research methodology utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each supplier’s position within a given market. The Capabilities score measures supplier product, go-to-market and business execution in the short-term. The Strategy score measures alignment of supplier strategies with customer requirements in a 3-5-year timeframe. Supplier market share is represented by the size of the icons.

The critical role of SCP software in modern businesses

Supply chains no longer operate as standalone functions – they’ve become opportunity centers that fuel business growth. Despite efforts, digital gaps continue to impede the shift to modern business models. Additionally, inefficient demand forecasting and inventory optimization hamper progress.

We believe the IDC MarketScape report confirms the above trends and explores how solutions are being improved to help customers solve complex logistics problems in this new era.

We feel that Anaplan continues to support this approach as IDC notes that, “Anaplan has taken its expertise at building data models, leveraging sophisticated planning techniques, supporting workflows, and solving complex problems and applied it successfully throughout supply chain planning functions. With advancements in ML/AI, and the company’s PlanIQ native optimization (through partnership with Gurobi) as well as recent releases advancing automation, Anaplan is continuing to expand its position in supply chain.”

Let’s explore the key trends and the innovations that are propelling the customers’ digital journey.

Our innovations empower SCP teams everywhere

Anaplan offers SCP teams the tools they need to support:

• Demand: Demand management (including statistical forecasting, NPI planning, promotion planning, market planning, demand planning, consensus planning, and CPFR) 

• Retail planning: Assortment, location, allocation, CPFR, and open to buy 

• Supply: Inventory planning, supply planning, replenishment planning, procurement/source planning, production planning, rough cut capacity planning, supplier collaboration, and risk management 

• Sales and operations planning (S&OP)/Integrated business planning (IBP): S&OP/IBP tools also including customer and supplier collaboration S&OE connected to S&OP/IBP 

We also recognize the growing importance of AI across all areas of business. Our AI-driven forecasting tool, PlanIQ™, provides businesses with advanced predictive analytics and the ability to harness vast amounts of internal and external data to improve forecasting accuracy. By offering transparency in predictive modeling with features like "explainability" and "impact scoring," Anaplan allows users to understand the drivers behind forecasts and how they influence business outcomes. In addition to this, our recently released Anaplan CoPlanner for Demand Planning provides generative AI capabilities to interpret your demand signals easily and precisely through conversational querying and take immediate action and initiate workflows. This level of insight is critical in delivering the ability to make smarter, faster decisions. Clients across industries, such as manufacturing and retail, benefit from Anaplan’s ability to drive results. 

To support this vision and as part of our commitment to innovation and delivering on our vision, we’ve also announced a $500M multi-year investment to accelerate advancements in our platform. This investment underscores our focus on delivering cutting-edge tools that drive efficiency, reduce costs, and support smarter, data-backed decisions that position businesses to thrive amid change.  

As a recognized Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Supply Chain Planning Overall 2024 Vendor Assessment, Anaplan combines advanced capabilities with a customer-first approach to deliver tangible value. Discover how Anaplan’s Connected Planning platform transforms supply chain strategies into measurable success.