Keelvar for food & beverage sourcing

Join leading companies like Coca-Cola, Carlsberg and Mars who are driving better sourcing outcomes with Keelvar.

TRUSTED BY leading food & beverage COMPANIES WORLDWIDE

Unlock more value from strategic events and manage more of the tactical and tail

Enable your sourcing team to create and execute even the most advanced sourcing projects and empower the rest of your organization to easily launch sourcing events themselves through simple, automated workflows.

Why Keelvar for food & beverage sourcing

Increase cost savings by 3-25%

Automate up to 90% of workload

Balance cost, risk & total value

Improve supplier relationships by up to 47%

Reduce rogue spend

Increase adoption by up to 50%

Where food & beverage are using Keelvar today

Transport & logistics

For all modes of transportation including trucking, rail, ocean FCL and LCL, road, air and parcel.

Services

Streamline service buying from relocation services, temp labor, facilities management and more.

Packaging

For primary, secondary and tertiary packacing such as labels, barrels, flex films, bottles, cans, cartons.

Direct materials

Easily source ingredients, commodities, chemicals and other raw materials.

Warehousing

Quickly launch spot buys for additional storage capacity or urgent needs.

success stories

Nestlé

Their Keelvar Autonomous Sourcing ocean and air bot helped Nestlé increase agility, save cost and get products to market faster.

6,000

Automated annual events for unanticipated shipments & lanes

Features and highlights

Some of the reasons why food & beverage companies use Keelvar to help scale sourcing excellence across strategic, tactical and tail spend.

Rapid event creation

Flexible supplier bidding options and feedback

Scalability to handle large, complex events

Proactive bid validation and auto-piloting

Robust, easy scenario modelling and awarding

Customizable, visual dashbaors and reports

Category flexible automated sourcing bots

Creation of automated sourcing bots in 1 hour

Success stories
What our customers say about us

“As one of the early adopters of this AI Ocean Sourcing Solution with Keelvar, I can honestly say it’s been groundbreaking for us in the Coca-Cola System. We now have a structured digital solution to manage all our “Off Tender” requests, removing 100s of emails from our inboxes on a weekly basis.”

Alan Smith, Procurement Director - Global Logistics (CEPG)

“We now have standard elements that can be followed for road transportation events, making it much more efficient for the team, and for leadership.”

Koteswara Rao Malipeddi, Group Senior Category Manager for Logistics - Carlsberg

“With Keelvar, Mars now has a fit-for-purpose optimizer that we use to run large scale, complex sourcing events and autonomous sourcing which is built onto the optimizer and very intuitive. Our Associates can leverage AI to build and create events”.

Sam de Frates, Vice President, Commercial – Europe, CIS & Turkey, Mars

Check out more resources

Sourcing Optimization

Drive better sourcing outcomes for strategic spend

Autonomous Sourcing

Extend sourcing best practices to the entire business