Cervello’s Rebate Planning & Optimization solution in Anaplan

Cervello’s Rebate Planning & Optimization solution is an elegant and powerful tool designed to help your company get the most out of suppliers’ offers. By connecting rebates from vendors, supply plans, and financial projections all in one place, we have created a tool that ensures your company captures all of the available value and streamlines communications with suppliers.

The disorganized nature of rebate offerings often results in a large amount of disconnected data tucked away in spreadsheets and emails. Our solution is designed to extract the maximum value that already exists in your organization and to empower you to get the full value of your current offerings.

What methodologies drive the benefits?

• Data. The Rebates Optimizer Model uses existing and siloed data by creating one place to organize the rebate offerings and combine them with the organization’s supply plans. All the information that drives the value of the tool is already living somewhere inside the organization in the form of spreadsheets, emails, or databases. Organizing this data is the key to more intelligent planning.
• Rebates optimization. The model provides a sandbox environment for buyers in the organization to modify the supply plan. This environment enables the organization to test “what if” scenarios to confirm that they are on track to maximize rebate values or determine if there is something that can be modified.
• Variance reporting. This model allows the organization to keep track of rebate payments by connecting the forecasted rebate to suppliers’ actual payments. This single piece of information opens the possibility of an in-depth comparison of suppliers’ discounts, on-time payment percentages, and total rebate values. The organization can also monitor suppliers’ service levels.

About Cervello, a Kearney company

Cervello is a data and analytics consulting firm and part of Kearney, a leading management consulting firm. We help our clients win by offering unique expertise in data and analytics and in the challenges associated with connecting data. We focus on performance management, customer and supplier relationships, and data monetization and products — serving functions from sales to finance. Cervello is an Anaplan Gold Tier partner. Leveraging our extensive planning, modeling, and consulting experience, we have implemented more than 100 planning solutions. In addition, we ensure maximum ROI on your Anaplan investment by providing training and using a connected planning approach to enable a client center of excellence.