Case Study: Vale achieves increased employee productivity and $12M+ cost savings with Automation Anywhere

Vale Increases Employee Productivity With RPA

Vale, one of the world’s largest mining companies with more than 124,000 employees across 30 countries, sought to reinvent work by freeing staff from routine administrative tasks—like registering thousands of invoices—so employees could focus on higher-value, domain-specific work. The manual workload was draining human capital and creating operational risk, including a backlog of nearly 6,000 daily invoices that exposed the company to costly penalties.

Vale partnered with Automation Anywhere to pilot RPA in finance and back-office functions, scaling from small experiments to enterprise deployment. Digital Workers now handle repetitive processing, boosting employee satisfaction and productivity; the program has delivered $12M+ in cost savings, deployed 1,000+ bots across 350+ processes, and avoided an estimated $2M in penalties. Vale is now expanding automation into core mining operations.

Vale

Bruno Rocha

Workforce Effectiveness Leader