Transform Your Pharmaceutical Operations with Anaplan

DSI Consulting specializes in providing comprehensive Anaplan solutions tailored to the unique needs of pharmaceutical companies. Our expertise helps optimize planning processes, improve collaboration, and enhance overall operational efficiency.

FP&A Challenges in Biotech

Data and Forecasting Limitations
  • Siloed Specialized Systems
  • System Integration
  • Cross Functional Collaboration
  • Real-time Forecasting
Fast Growth
  • Talent Acquisition
  • Reliance on Innovation
  • Operational Scalability
  • Fast Changing Realities
Complex Modeling
  • Long Development Cycles
  • Regulatory Compliance
  • Scenario Planning
FP&A
  • Milestone Based Funding
  • Workforce Planning
  • Vendor Reporting
  • Portfolio Reporting
  • Currency Fluctuations
  • Cash Flow Planning
  • Planning across Phases
Data and Security
  • Data as a strategic asset
  • Not providing too much access
  • Providing enough access
Capital Intensive
  • High Risk
  • Pricing uncertainties
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Anaplan Can Help

Pharma System
Pharma FP&A
The Wider Organization
Challenge
Multiple spreadsheets on multiple systems mean business partners will spend a lot of time on data processing.
Data residing on multiple specialized systems needs to be extracted and merged together.
Lack of standard organization or project hierarchies requires manual data processing for communication between systems.
Compiling snapshots of project and portfolio health is time-consuming.
Anaplan Can Help
Anaplan centralizes data in one place, organized using company-wide hierarchies in datasets that can be quickly used for analysis, reducing time spent on data processing.
Anaplan’s hierarchical data structure allows for real-time data aggregation. It provides the capability to roll up and drill down data that is already calculated, simplifying the merging process.
Anaplan enables the setup of system-wide hierarchies across all models, allowing models to communicate in a common language with minimal manual interaction.
Anaplan can automate actions to calculate or pre-calculate data, speeding up the process of generating project and portfolio health reports.
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Challenge
Complex modeling to capture the idiosyncrasies of specific projects that roll up into your portfolio.
The amount of energy taken to reforecast means this is sometimes done biannually or quarterly instead of monthly.
Cashflow planning, Scenario Planning, Talent Acquisition, and Retention.
Anaplan Can Help
Anaplan provides a very flexible modeling platform that doesn't assume anything about your business, allowing you to deal with as much complexity as needed.
Anaplan has built-in processes for monthly forecasting where versions can be copied to other versions, locked, or loaded, making frequent updates easier.
Anaplan offers self-service analysis and reporting. End users can pivot data on the fly and drill into data without needing to understand how the model is built.
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Challenge
Integration of various systems such as HR Systems, Portfolio Management Systems, ERP, Data Warehouses, Cloud Services, and Spreadsheets.
Security concerns with portfolio views. If data is on a spreadsheet, the entire portfolio must be shared instead of just what's needed.
Scaling challenges arise as portfolios grow in size and complexity, causing spreadsheets to slow down or hang due to complicated calculations.
The tendency to layer on existing formulas can lead to complex, difficult-to-understand "spaghetti" formulas. Models inherited from other users can lack clarity regarding the purpose and method of previous calculations, making adjustments challenging.
Anaplan Can Help
Anaplan API allows for powerful custom integrations with other systems. Cloudworks automates data movements within Anaplan and with external systems, requiring no code. Additionally, third-party integrations provide connections to Anaplan and other external systems without any coding required.
Anaplan Selective Access can restrict user access to specific data within organizational hierarchies. For example, a business partner can access only a particular group of projects without being able to change or view other data.
Anaplan has a robust calculation engine that pre-aggregates and stores data, making user reporting much faster and more efficient.
Anaplan promotes a best-practice approach to building models, with centralized management of calculations. This setup allows models to be seamlessly transferred between different model builders, reducing friction and increasing efficiency.
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Success in the Pharmaceutical Sector

One of DSI's biggest assets is that they can fit into a team and provide support straight away. Through taking direction, providing insight and solving problems they became a key cog in the roll out of Anaplan to our business, adopting our Agile principles well they was able to deliver quickly to our business. I would happily work with DSI Consulting again on future projects/programmes.

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James Tewson
Strategic Delivery Manager
Bloomreach

I worked alongside DSI on an Anaplan integration at UPP. They took to the project very quickly - picking up what had already been modeled, what needed to be done and could easily understand complex financial structures he'd previously not come across. I'd highly recommend them as a consultant who can come in and get the job done.

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William Reed
Financial Planning Manager
Canary Wharf Group

"The DSI team are not only experts, but an amazing group of folks to work with. They've never run into an issue that they can't model, and their communication and engagement is concise and purposeful. I've enjoyed working with the DSI team and feel valued as a partner as they are always patient in explaining their work and educating me on how I can also achieve the same results."

Howard Hong
Co-Founder & CFO
Jane Technologies, Inc.

"We have automated a handful of things with your guys' help. We are talking saving days per period versus hours. With you guys, we could throw crazy ideas and they just happen. Not just addressing the problem, but helping us understand how to address it."

Geoff Lyn
Sr. Vice President, FP&A
FOX Entertainment Studios

"DSI has streamlined the budgeting/forecasting process for the MVE FP&A team, enabling us to quickly run different forecast scenarios with minimal inputs/manual updates required, and allowed us to identify variances between scenarios on granular title and ledger account levels (MVE has 100+ new productions a year and produced 1,000+ titles)."

Naomi Chan
Sr. Manager FP&A
FOX Entertainment Studios

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