Changes in competitive conditions force businesses to develop new capabilities in order to sustain their existence and be successful. At this point, businesses have made an effort to change their management approach and gain a strategic perspective. This approach, called strategic management, involves the effective use of the resources that the business has in order to regulate the relations between the business and its environment and to gain superiority over competitors or to make a difference. The most important resource that businesses have is human resources. The most important key to the adoption and successful implementation of the strategic management approach is to have an effective manpower. With a strategic human resources planning, businesses will be able to ensure that employees are provided at the right time, with the desired qualifications and assigned to the right jobs in line with the business strategy. The purpose of this study is to create a conceptual framework for the role of human resource planning in the strategic management process. At this point, the studies on strategic management, human resource management and strategic human resource management in the literature were examined in detail. As a result of the research, it was concluded that strategic human resources planning is the process of creating comprehensive and long-term human resources strategies and developing the plans, programs and tactics necessary for the implementation of these strategies, and that businesses that manage this process in the best way can establish superiority over their competitors by identifying opportunities, threats, advantages and weaknesses.