September 24, 2026
Driver-based margin planning with the PlaniFi Value Driver Tree, built in SAP Analytics Cloud
Thursday 24 September 2026 · 11:00 to 11:30 AM CT · 30 min · Live (GoToWebinar)
What this driver-based margin planning webinar is about
Most planning tools will happily accept a number nobody can deliver. Type it in, and the system takes it. That is the gap driver-based margin planning is meant to close.
A value driver tree takes a different approach. It maps your P&L to the operational levers that actually produce it, price, volume, cost and freight, and it lets you test a change before that change reaches the plan.
Join us for a live walkthrough of the PlaniFi Value Driver Tree, built in SAP Analytics Cloud. We will build a margin scenario in real time, watch the tree flag an over-ambitious growth target, revise it, and re-state the full P&L.
What you will see
Three things, in thirty minutes.
Move the levers, not the line items. Adjust price and cost directly on a live tree and watch margin re-state across the whole P&L.
Pressure-test before you commit. Every change is scored against that driver’s own history and against its peers. So you find out a target is unrealistic in the planning session, not in the review meeting three weeks later.
Get the analysis written for you. Generate an AI read on any driver: what is influencing it, how it stacks up against its peers, and a recommended course of action. Without sending your financial numbers over the wire.
Who should attend
We built this one for the people who own the number. So that means FP&A directors and managers, finance business partners, and anyone who has to defend a margin plan to a room. Controllers and CFOs who keep asking where a target came from belong here too.
Knowing SAP Analytics Cloud is not a requirement. What helps is having sat through a planning meeting that ended with a number nobody in the room believed.
Why attend this driver-based margin planning session
Because the argument happens either way. The only question is when.
A target that nobody can deliver sails through approval, lands in the system, and then misses. By the time the variance shows up, three months have gone and the conversation is about blame rather than about price and cost. Thirty minutes now moves that argument forward to the point where it is still cheap.
This session is a walkthrough, not a slide deck. In fact you will watch the tree challenge a target live, which is the whole point of it. It runs on the same PlaniFi add-on family as the PlaniFi Cockpit.
Your speaker
Jhanvi Patel
Principal Solution Advisor EPM at SimpleFi Solutions
She builds these trees with customers. So the session covers what people actually argue about in a planning session, rather than a feature tour.
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