Most run 8–14 weeks from kickoff to go-live. The capability already exists in Anaplan, so the time goes into fitting it to your customer hierarchies, promotion mechanics, and funding structures — not into recreating what's already proven.

Both, deliberately. Promotion planning, uplift modelling, spend and accrual logic are established in Anaplan and stay current with the roadmap — there's no reason to reinvent them. The work goes into what's genuinely yours: your trade terms, your customer P&L, your approval routes.

It connects rather than duplicates. Promotion planning should draw on the demand and financial models you already run, not maintain a second version of the same numbers. We map those connection points during scoping.

More than most people expect. Promotion types, funding mechanics, approval routes, and the customer P&L structure all flex to your business. What we won't do is stretch things so far that future Anaplan releases become a problem — where something genuinely doesn't fit, we'll say so and design around it deliberately.

Shipment and consumption data, customer and product hierarchies, promotion history, and trade spend actuals from finance. Most of it exists already, spread across three or four systems. Aligning it is usually the longest part of the work, which is why we start there.

Ours. Every consultant is an Elite EPM employee, and the partner who scopes the work stays involved through go-live. Nothing is subcontracted.

We stay through the first live promotion cycles, because that's when the real questions surface. After that, most clients move to a support arrangement or run it themselves — we set things up for the second and are happy with either.

Fixed price against a defined scope, with milestone payments. Support and enhancement work is quoted separately. We'd rather scope properly than quote a range and revise it.