Case Study: Kansas City Chiefs achieve 95% faster reporting and greater profitability with Vena Solutions

95% Faster Reporting in Vena Helps the Kansas City Chiefs Run a More Profitable Franchise

The Kansas City Chiefs—one of the NFL’s most successful franchises—faced a different kind of challenge off the field: finance and planning were fragmented across multiple systems and spreadsheets, creating manual work, slow month-end and gameday settlements (up to four hours), poor cross‑functional collaboration, and no single source of truth for budgeting or forecasting.

By deploying Vena’s pre‑configured planning solution with a familiar Excel interface and integrations to systems like Dynamics GP and Archtics, the Chiefs automated workflows, enabled self-service budgeting, and unified revenue, payroll and CapEx planning. The result: reporting times dropped by 95% (gameday settlements cut from 4 hours to 15 minutes), real‑time budget-to-actuals for departments, and more bandwidth for strategic analysis—helping the organization make faster, data‑driven decisions such as modeling major player contracts.

Kansas City Chiefs

Michael Ragsdale

Director of Strategy and Analytics