499: Navigating the EV Revolution, with Anaplan
Emily Nicholls is the Vice President of Applications at Anaplan. With a background and Master's degree in physics, she began her career in the defense industry, working on the UK's submarine program, before transitioning into technology and supply chain. Nicholls founded a boutique supply chain specialist consultancy that built its solutions on the Anaplan platform; this consultancy was ultimately acquired by Anaplan. She is an expert on using integrated business planning and AI-driven modeling to help businesses break down silos, improve visibility, and make agile, profitable decisions in volatile markets.
Today I’m joined by Anaplan, a company that builds connections and collaboration across organizational silos, allowing its platform to intelligently surface key insights, so businesses can make the right decisions, right now.
Anaplan is the only scenario planning and analysis platform designed to optimize decision-making in today’s complex business environment, so that enterprises can outpace their competition, and the market.
Today Emily Nicholls, Vice President of Applications at Anaplan, will be talking all about how integrated business planning helps automotive OEMs navigate EV growth. We’ll be sharing how you can break down siloes, and why visibility matters more than ever as businesses navigate the EV revolution. We’ll be exploring how you can make the unpredictable manageable with AI-powered scenario planning. And how to build a future-ready automotive business with financial health as its north star.
Guest bio:
Emily Nicholls is the Vice President of Applications, Supply Chain GTM at Anaplan, where she leads go-to-market strategy for supply chain planning solutions. She previously served as Global Director of Solutions at Vuealta, and has held consulting roles at Thorogood Associates, working with enterprises to operationalize supply chain and planning transformations. Emily holds an MBA from University of Exeter, and is now recognized as a thought leader across the supply chain and planning community, especially on topics like integrated business planning, AI-driven scenario modeling, and end-to-end visibility.
An introduction to Emily, her background in physics, and how her boutique supply chain specialist consultancy was acquired by Anaplan.
An overview of Anaplan – who they are, what they do, and how they help their customers.
The significant transformation happening in the automotive industry, and the geopolitical factors and supply chain volatility impacting that transition.
Integrated business planning: exactly what it is, why it’s no longer a ‘nice to have,’ and how it’s giving leaders much-needed visibility, as well as both horizontal and vertical connections within a business.
Why teams are still using spreadsheets and legacy tools, and how traditional S&OP processes are falling short in today’s volatile market.
How integrated business planning breaks down siloes to connect the dots and empower teams to make better decisions.
The power of scenario planning and AI-driven modeling, how they’re helping teams to avoid analysis paralysis, and the big impact they can have for teams juggling different priorities and making trade-offs, against an ever-changing backdrop.
The problem with cost-cutting, and how integrated business planning can elevate a company’s financial health to North Star status and ensure that all decisions are tied back to that, from cost cutting to investments for the future.
How integrated business planning can help businesses achieve a competitive advantage.
A case study exploring how Anaplan helped a large global automotive OEM manage tariffs by modelling scenarios, allowing them to make agile decisions and pivot quickly to minimize impact and maximise opportunity.
How listeners can work with Anaplan.
