AirAsia Expedia Selects Anaplan for Territorial Planning

AirAsia Expedia, a joint venture between AirAsia and online travel agency Expedia, has selected Anaplan's cloud-based solution to enhance its budget forecasting and territorial planning across the region. The move is intended to improve data consolidation for analysis.

One of the initial challenges for the joint venture was integrating data from the systems of both parent companies, which resulted in incompatible solutions. Anaplan will now allow the company to consolidate its data for regional analysis.

"The travel industry is highly dynamic, so we wanted something flexible, fast, and user-friendly to collate our information in real time for business analysis," said Henry Tjan, Head of Forecasting, Planning and Analysis at AirAsia Expedia. "Anaplan provided the solution we were looking for, and implementation took only six weeks."

The solution now connects the two brands, 22 points of sale, and 14 channels for AirAsia Expedia in Asia. Previously, this involved manual work with linked spreadsheets that required manual updates for new points of sale. The implementation of Anaplan was completed with zero scripting or coding and allows finance to make changes at any point.

AirAsia Expedia opened its Hong Kong office in July and has recently unveiled a strategy to offer more localized services in Asia. This new system solution supports the company's growth and service expansion.