Enabling finance to steer Umicore through volatile market circumstances in a connected planning landscape
In a world with a growing need of advanced materials, precious metal recycling and circularity expectations, but with high inflation and volatile metal prices, flexibility and pro-activeness are key. With this trend in mind, Umicore is refining its planning processes with Anaplan to be better equipped to tackle challenges that lie ahead. By speeding up the extraction of insights from raw data and allowing information to flow efficiently throughout the different parts of the business, Umicore is leveraging Anaplan to steer its activities pro-actively instead of reactively. It can confidently move forward knowing that all scenarios have been considered. Let the CFO of one of their biggest business units explain you the transformation taking place in the company.
Filip van Echelpoel, VP Strategic Planning & Digitalization, Umicore
Adoption is crucial to foster a collaborative xP&A approach within large organisations. For Brussels Airlines, the Anaplan Management Reporting has been the game changer to accelerate the adoption, and make the collaborative spirit take off to new heights. By bringing correct and key information faster to many stakeholders in the organisation, the largest Belgian airlines achieves its team to collaborate on the right topics, leading to better insights and faster decisions. Learn from their experience to accelerate the collaborative spirit in your organization.
Tom Holsteens, Head of Business Controlling & BI, Brussels Airlines
Wouter De Man, Business Controller, Brussels Airlines
Leveraging Connected Planning as an accelerator to support the integration exercise of 2 Belgian banks
Crelan took over AXA-bank Belgium on the last day of 2021. Bringing 2 companies together, in this case banks, is a challenging collision of data, people and processes that typically requires a massive integration effort, taking many years to complete. For Crelan group, the presence of Anaplan as planning and decision-making platform in AXA-bank proved to be a very welcomed accelerator for this integration. Join this session and find out how Crelan is now scaling Anaplan across the group for financial planning and decision making as well as workforce planning.
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David Stemberger, Director of Strategic Planning and Performance Management, Crelan
Ardo is an important global player in the market of fresh-frozen vegetables, fruit and herbs. Caught in a jungle of spreadsheets Ardo faced a supply chain that demanded a degree of manual effort in the planning process to manage its extensive network of over 20 sites. With Anaplan, Ardo has established end-to-end supply chain visibility, enabling them to optimize inventory and production by connecting various stakeholders and establishing a single source of truth for planning. Even before the implementation of a unified ERP system, Anaplan has empowered Ardo to enhance its supply chain visibility, accelerate planning cycles, and take a proactive approach to managing supply chain disruptions.
Matthias Herbots, Group Supply Chain Project Manager, Ardo
Managing costs in a today’s volatile world has become ever more challenging for manufacturing companies. AB InBev, the world largest beer brewer, has taken control of their costs of finished goods through the development of a global cost model in Anaplan that supports benchmarking between their many production sites around the world. This allows AB InBev to identify the best practices in supply chain and manufacturing cost control and scale these globally. The insights from this model also allows to set clear targets for each brewery to continuously optimise costs year on year. Be inspired by this compelling session and take control of your manufacturing and supply chain costs.
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Camila Viana, Global Supply Chain Director - Business Cycle and Transformation, AB InBev
