Case Study: Costco Wholesale Corporation achieves a unified finance platform and 25% FTE reallocation with OneStream Software

Costco Wholesale Corporation - Customer Case Study

Costco Wholesale, a global membership warehouse operator with 800+ locations, faced rising complexity from multiple ERPs, an aging Oracle HFM system, and heavily manual Excel-based reporting and budgeting. The outdated tools hindered their 1.5-day close, made cashflow reporting slow and error-prone, and created a burdensome budgeting process for warehouse managers and the broader finance team.

Working with Finit Solutions, Costco implemented the OneStream Intelligent Finance platform to unify close, consolidation, reporting, budgeting and forecasting, and added DrillIt for improved drill-through. The result was a single system of record, stronger visibility for 4,000 users, a reallocation of 25% of FTEs to value-added work, dramatically faster cashflow reporting, and more time for analysis and decision-making across the business.

Costco Wholesale Corporation

Thomas Leinenbach

Financial Reporting Manager