Sole Searching: How Zappos Found the Perfect Fit With Planful's Cloud-based Platform

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This is a podcast episode titled, Sole Searching: How Zappos Found the Perfect Fit With Planful's Cloud-based Platform. The summary for this episode is: <p>Zappos is in the final phases of transitioning from its previously flat corporate structure to a more traditional financial and organizational hierarchy. Join Jeremy Mann, Director of Finance and Technology at Zappos, as he explains how Zappos is using Planful to replace decentralized and inefficient workstreams with structured processes that enable easier reporting and more effective controls. He'll also cover how Zappos continues to improve collaboration, version control, and reporting automation and how FP&amp;A analysts and their business partners are saving time they can now repurpose to higher-value initiatives.</p>
How Zappos chose Planful over Adaptive and Anaplan
03:00 MIN
Why Zappos chose Planful over Anaplan
01:20 MIN
Partnership with KeenVision
01:32 MIN
Implementing Planful led to significant time savings
02:15 MIN
Planful saved Zappos 15% of analyst time or $70000/yr immediately
00:57 MIN
Tops down opex planning now takes 1 hr instead of 1 day
01:18 MIN
Lessons learned from the Planful implementation
02:35 MIN
Plans for the future
02:38 MIN

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Zappos is in the final phases of transitioning from its previously flat corporate structure to a more traditional financial and organizational hierarchy. Join Jeremy Mann, Director of Finance and Technology at Zappos, as he explains how Zappos is using Planful to replace decentralized and inefficient workstreams with structured processes that enable easier reporting and more effective controls. He'll also cover how Zappos continues to improve collaboration, version control, and reporting automation and how FP&A analysts and their business partners are saving time they can now repurpose to higher-value initiatives.