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Shift4Shift4 Adopts Anaplan for Planning and Forecasting
Shift4, a financials organization in the United States, uses Anaplan Modeling from Anaplan to support planning and forecasting for FP&A.
Value results
| Category | Value result |
|---|---|
| Productivity | Handoffs in planning and forecasting sit in a shared queue instead of a mailbox trail |
| Risk and compliance | Anaplan Modeling is the governed place FP&A use for planning and forecasting |
| Capability | New joiners can see how planning and forecasting actually runs |
Story
Shift4 did not need another dashboard that nobody opened. It needed planning and forecasting to move. In the United States, FP&A already knew where financial planning went wrong: too many copies, too little ownership, and a close process that waited on the loudest inbox.
Anaplan Modeling from Anaplan is now in that path. Anaplan is a connected planning platform for finance, supply chain, and sales planning on a shared calculation engine. The company treats it as production tooling for planning and forecasting, which is why FP&A live in it rather than exporting from it once a quarter.
Shift4 can show how financial planning is handled today. That is the value: a repeatable way to run planning and forecasting on software the rest of the industry already recognizes.
