Case Study: Avebe achieves 80% faster financial consolidation and 30% cost savings with IBM Cloud and Cognos Controller

Cultivating better business strategies with data-driven decision-making

AVEBE, a global cooperative and leading potato‑starch producer with 35 subsidiaries, faced slow, error‑prone financial consolidation using spreadsheets that took more than 25 working days and tied up finance teams. To gain faster, more accurate insight for strategic decisions, AVEBE adopted an SAP ERP‑integrated, cloud-based solution from IBM, including IBM Cognos Controller on IBM Cloud.

IBM automated AVEBE’s consolidation and moved the solution to IBM Cloud, enabling direct SAP-to‑Cognos data flows, built‑in security and remote access; the result reduced consolidation time by 80% (from ~25 days to 5 days, with the actual consolidation under 4 hours), cut costs by roughly 25–30% annually, improved decision speed and accuracy, and boosted employee productivity and agility. IBM continues to manage the cloud service, freeing AVEBE’s IT team from maintenance.

AVEBE

Fred Oostland

Finance Director Group