Case Study: Leading Consumer Goods Manufacturing Company achieves automated data collection, a consolidated single source of truth and improved data integrity with Vena Solutions

Automating data collection and consolidation to protect data integrity

A leading U.S. consumer goods manufacturer (>$900M revenue) was relying on manual, email-driven collection and consolidation of uncontrolled Excel spreadsheets for production planning. This process was time-consuming, caused version-control problems, prevented verification of overseas supplier data, and left the company without a single source of truth—undermining production rates and confidence in reported numbers.

Vena linked the company’s existing Excel templates to a secure central data repository, syncing with MBI and Ligility to automate collection, consolidation and updates, enforce controls that limit spreadsheet manipulation, and send reminder notifications to suppliers while feeding data into supplier scorecards. The result was instant access to up-to-date, auditable data, elimination of manual aggregation, fewer errors, improved supplier accountability, and greater efficiency and collaborative decision-making across the organization.