Crystal Ball or Spreadsheet? The Smarter Way to Plan with OneStream — Episode 32
If your planning process is still driven by static spreadsheets, you’re reacting to change instead...
5 min read
If your workforce planning still lives in spreadsheets, late-night version-control emails, and best guesses on labor costs, it’s costing your business time, accuracy, and confidence. In this episode of CPM Customer Success, Andy Smetana dives into People Planning—one of the most practical and high-impact solutions available in the OneStream Solution Exchange—and explains how finance teams can finally take control of headcount and labor planning.
Episode Summary
Andy explores why workforce planning is often one of the last processes to modernize—and why that creates ongoing pain for finance leaders. The episode breaks down how OneStream’s People Planning solution enables finance teams to plan hires, transfers, contractors, compensation changes, and merit increases directly within the same platform used for close, reporting, and budgeting. Andy also walks through how global drivers automate salaries, taxes, and benefits, enabling consistent assumptions and real-time insight. A real-world success story from a global manufacturer highlights how aligning headcount planning with production demand helped cut forecast cycles and improve operational alignment.
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What You’ll Learn
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Why spreadsheet-based workforce planning creates risk and inefficiency
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How OneStream People Planning centralizes headcount and compensation modeling
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How to align labor assumptions with financial and operational plans
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How global drivers automate salaries, taxes, and benefits
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A real-world example of workforce planning driving better forecasts
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