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Event Recap
Smart retail planning with Anaplan – fueled by Snowflake and AI‑driven insights
On September 2, 2026, we took retail planning out of the spreadsheet jungle. At our valantic office in Hamburg’s Hafencity, surrounded by the city’s iconic harbor atmosphere, we brought together:
Retail planning experts from leading brands like Avolta & woom
Anaplan for connected, AI‑assisted planning
Snowflake as a powerful data backbone
valantic as the end‑to‑end partner connecting it all
Why Hamburg, why now?
Retailers are under pressure: demand is volatile, assortments are complex, and data is scattered across ERP, CRM, ecommerce and stores. At the same time, AI is raising expectations for speed and intelligence in planning.
Our goal was to:
- Connect FP&A and retail planning on a single Anaplan platform
- Build a Snowflake‑based data backbone as your single source of truth
- Turn AI in Planning from buzzword into a practical co‑pilot
- Learn from Avolta’s and woom’s global planning journey with Anaplan
Event highlights
Exclusive project insights from customers Avolta and woom
Exclusive project insights from customers Avolta and woom
Avolta shared its planning story: from global FP&A to the first steps into merchandise and retail planning – all on a connected data landscape.
woom Bikes added the scale-up perspective: how a fast-growing D2C bicycle brand broke free from Excel, brought structure into its planning with Anaplan, and created the transparency it needed to keep growth and profitability on track.
AI in Planning – co‑pilot for tomorrow’s retail planners
AI in Planning – co‑pilot for tomorrow’s retail planners
Together with Anaplan and valantic, attendees experienced AI not as a slide, but as a hands-on planning co-pilot.
They left with a clear view of what AI could do for their team today – and what still needed a solid data and process foundation.
Snowflake as your retail data backbone
Snowflake as your retail data backbone
In collaboration with Snowflake, we showed how a modern data platform turned fragmented retail data into an AI-ready backbone.
The result: less manual data wrangling – more time for scenario planning and steering the business.
Flying lunch, Kaiserschmarrn breaks & harbor vibes
Flying lunch, Kaiserschmarrn breaks & harbor vibes
We set the tone with a flying lunch at the valantic office overlooking Hamburg’s dynamic Hafencity. Throughout the afternoon, attendees could look forward to — and enjoyed:
- Networking breaks with Kaiserschmarrn highlights
- plenty of time to connect with retail peers,
- direct exchanges with experts from valantic, Anaplan and Snowflake.
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Your post-event toolkit
To continue the conversation and deepen your understanding, we have prepared a selection of follow-up materials:
Explore our dedicated Merchandise Planning page!
Discover how valantic leverages Anaplan to transform end‑to‑end merchandise financial and assortment planning for leading retail, fashion, and CPG brands.
Discover our expertise!
Discover our expertise!
Explore our dedicated Snowflake page!
Discover how to build a unified, fully managed data and AI platform on the Snowflake AI Data Cloud together with valantic.
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Our success stories in the retail industry
Connected financial planning solution boosts Swarovski’s efficiency
With a financial planning solution from valantic, the company achieves high efficiency gains, more accurate forecasts and makes smart, successful business decisions in the future.
"valantic's experts won us over with their excellent tool and process knowledge and outstanding project management. valantic successfully completed the implementation and we now have an agile connected financial planning solution that enables us to make better decisions in a timely running planning process."
Michael Nudelmann
"Anaplan was a huge step up for us. The platform takes our planning to a new level and our three key users in Zurich found it very easy to learn. We still see enormous potential with the platform."
Florence Münch
Connected Planning with Anaplan brings high added value to On
Working closely with valantic, On successfully implemented the award-winning planning solution Anaplan.
Global budgeting & forecasting for thousands of stores at Avolta
valantic's integrated financial planning solution helped Avolta boost efficiency, cut manual effort, and improve forecast accuracy — all in a tool specialist users find easy to use.
"The strong cooperation with valantic was decisive for the great success of the project, not only on a professional, but also on a human level. Everything came together perfectly."
Sophie Hälg
The speakers
Andreas Huber
Director of Global FP&A and BI
Annika Völker
General Manager Germany at Anaplan
Antje Böttger
Principal at valantic
Fabian Krutten
Team Lead Data & AI at valantic
Linh Huber
Solution Engineer at Snowflake
Lyuben Chetirski
Global Controlling Lead at Avolta
Marc Philipp
Managing Director & Team Lead Planning at valantic
Philipp Kurrek
Senior Account Solution Consultant at Anaplan
Raphaela Richter
Account Executive at Snowflake
Sophie Hälg
Senior Vice President Global Controlling at Avolta
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Partner & Managing Director
valantic XPA AG