Case Study: EAT achieves scalable financial planning and sales forecasting with Cloud Pro’s Anaplan cloud solution

Cloud: Helping Eat digest sales data more effectively

EAT, the retail food chain, needed a finance planning system that could keep up with rapid branch growth and replace its error-prone Excel and SQL-based processes. Its finance director, Strahan Wilson, was looking for a scalable, easy-to-use solution for complex financial reporting and forecasting, and selected Cloud Pro’s cloud-based planning service, Anaplan, after considering other vendors.

Cloud Pro implemented Anaplan in under six months, first replicating EAT’s existing planning model and then adding much greater detail to sales forecasting and cost build-ups by product, week, and store. The result was a more scalable, intuitive planning platform that let EAT’s internal team build and manage models without consultants, while delivering the granularity and speed that spreadsheets could not match.

EAT

Strahan Wilson

CFO