Case Study: AES Corporation achieves faster, more accurate reporting with Vena Solutions

Seamless SAP/BPC integration enables AES to report days earlier than before

AES, a U.S.-based energy company with more than $17 billion in revenue and 27,000+ employees, relied on SAP BPC but was still manually creating, distributing, tracking and consolidating 170 Excel spreadsheets for external reporting. The finance team’s processes were time-consuming and error-prone, with limited visibility, no automatic validation between BPC and templates, and thousands of manual figure checks required.

Vena implemented a central data repository that syncs with SAP BPC, centrally stores templates and formulas, and adds workflow task lists, automatic reviewer notifications and detailed audit trails. The change eliminated manual aggregation, reduced errors, accelerated reporting (enabling AES to report days earlier) and delivered a single, auditable “version of the truth” for stakeholders.

AES Corporation