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What is Vaccine Planning on Anaplan and why did we build it?

The COVID-19 pandemic response demands real-time updates from multiple contributors and consumers. Anavate Partners, in conjunction with Anaplan and multiple Fortune 50 companies, has developed a rapid response vaccine capacity and distribution planning and modeling platform that can quickly respond to changing demands.

Vaccine Capacity Planning - built on the Anaplan platform - is a rapidly scalable application to estimate, forecast, and produce a pipeline of information about all the people, resources, and costs involved in administering COVID-19 vaccines including tracking and analyzing the actual results and variances in real-time. Used by State and Local governments, private healthcare organizations, staffing companies, pharmaceutical companies, and other organizations, it helps coordinate, collaborate, and give visibility to the end-to-end vaccine sourcing, distribution, and delivery cycle.

Why is it Important to governments and authorities?

During a difficult year, government authorities have stepped up to the plate to manage the response to the pandemic, address public health concerns, and establish trust and reassurance with constituents. Vaccination is the next leap in effectively beating the virus. Once your Vaccine Capacity Planning system is up and running, it allows you to engage in a number of mission-critical activities, including:

• Estimate and forecast vaccination quantities at different sites and locations across a City, County, Tribe, or State, command and allocate resources accordingly across complex assumptions and drivers

• Alerts for expected capacity breeches, before they happen, in things like consumable resources (vaccine kits, PPE), human resources (based on demand pipeline, numbers of staff needed), and storage facilities

• Report real-time cost, budget, and efficiency information to leadership or business unit leaders

• Adapt to rapidly changing financial, operational, legal, and other requirements and make changes to the Vaccine Capacity Planning process and tool in a matter of hours

• Conduct your own ‘what-if’ scenarios to prepare and adapt to changing inventory, supply chain, and priority circumstances

• Use the tool to compare and contrast third-party vendor or contractor selection and service-level performance targets

Whether your entity administers the vaccination sites or contracts to private industry, knowing what to expect across the entire workflow of vaccination will help with successful delivery.