What is OneStream People Planning and How Can it Benefit Your Business?

Streamline workforce planning with OneStream People Planning! It integrates with your existing OneStream CPM platform for a centralized, data-driven approach. Improve decision-making, cost control, and gain a competitive edge....

While workforce planning is critical, it can often be cumbersome: gathering and analyzing employee data, managing complex compensation and benefit structures, and forecasting future needs. Traditional methods, relying on spreadsheets and siloed data sources, often lead to inaccuracies, inefficiencies, and difficulty in scenario planning.

OneStream’s People Planning offers a powerful solution to streamline workforce planning. It’s a pre-built Marketplace solution that seamlessly integrates with your existing OneStream CPM platform, providing a centralized hub for all your human capital data. People Planning leverages relational tables, providing a flexible and scalable foundation for managing even the most intricate workforce data. While the out-of-the box solution can accommodate organizations with a simple workforce structure, working with a trusted partner can ensure a workforce solution that is tailored to your organization’s unique needs.

OneStream People Planning caters to the specific needs of various stakeholders within your organization:

  • Finance Professionals:
    • Improved Visibility: Gain real-time insights into employee costs with easy-to-read dashboards and comprehensive employee data.
    • Effortless Data Management: Eliminate the need for constant cube updates with every new employee or data change.
    • Driver-Based Planning: Model different workforce scenarios based on key business drivers for informed decision-making. 
    • Immediate Results: After changing drivers, view updated plan results at the click of a button. 
  • HR Managers:
    • Streamlined Benefits Administration: Manage complex benefit plans and offerings with greater ease and accuracy.
    • Strategic Workforce Planning: Plan for future talent needs, optimize staffing levels, and make data-driven decisions for a competitive edge.
    • Enhanced Employee Communication: Utilize clear and concise dashboards to effectively communicate workforce plans to employees.
  • Business Leaders:
    • Unified View of Workforce Costs: Gain a clear picture of your total people costs, allowing for better budgeting and cost control.
    • Improved Scenario Modeling: Simulate different workforce scenarios and their financial implications to make strategic business decisions.
    • Increased Agility: Adapt quickly to changing market conditions with a flexible and responsive workforce planning tool.

OneStream People Planning empowers businesses to move beyond the limitations of traditional workforce planning methods. By providing a centralized, flexible, and data-driven approach, it enables improved decision-making and cost optimization for a competitive advantage. 

BradyPLUS, a leading provider of JanSan, foodservice, and industrial packaging solutions, successfully implemented OneStream People Planning to maximize their workforce planning processes. They achieved a substantial reduction in time spent on planning thanks to systematic workflows and a streamlined process for adding new hires. OneStream People Planning introduced a centralized platform that facilitated collaboration across the organization, for better transparency and data-driven decision-making. Finally, with faster updates to workforce drivers BradyPLUS can now see the immediate impact, to continuously adapt to changing market conditions.

Ready to take your workforce planning to the next level? Schedule a free consultation to see how OneStream People Planning can transform the way you manage your most valuable asset – your people.

SandPoint Consulting
SandPoint Consulting specializes in digital transformation for the finance function, offering tailored solutions for budgeting, planning, forecasting, and financial close. With nearly 25 years of experience, our team of finance and accounting professionals understands the challenges our clients face and provides personalized, no-cookie-cutter implementations. As a trusted partner, we help organizations streamline processes, migrate seamlessly from legacy systems, and achieve sustainable, long-term success.

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