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ABF Transforms Freight & Logistics Procurement with Keelvar
Food & beverage
Keelvar for food & beverage sourcing
Join leading companies like Coca-Cola, Carlsberg and Mars who are driving better sourcing outcomes with Keelvar.
Trusted by industry leading procurement teams globally
What other food & beverage companies get from Keelvar
$1.61bn
spend managed
4%
average savings
90%
reduction in the time to build complex RFPs
$32M
savings in 1 year
Better sourcing outcomes for food & beverage
Seasonal shifts. Traceability requirements. Consolidation risk. F&B sourcing is complex by nature — Keelvar gives your team the tools to handle it consistently, at scale.
Make award decisions based on total value, not just price
Model award scenarios across cost, quality, traceability, supplier resilience, and regulatory compliance simultaneously — so every decision reflects what the business actually needs, not just what came in cheapest on the bid sheet.
Ingredient prices shift with harvests, logistics, and geopolitics. When they do, trigger new sourcing events automatically.
Build best practices once, apply them everywhere
Create sourcing workflows for your key F&B categories and reuse them consistently across regions, seasons, and every sourcing event.
When commodity prices move, act before costs do
Automate bid invites, supplier reminders, data validation, and conditional awarding. Your team focuses on the decisions that matter — not the administration that doesn't.
Dynamic feedback shows suppliers exactly where they stand in real time — driving better bids and stronger competition across every category event you run.
Do you need a platform that can help you with that?
Keelvar is built for the sourcing events most tools can't handle — and the high-volume events most teams don't have time for.
Where F&B companies are using Keelvar
See how other companies in your industry are using Keelvar across multiple spend categories.
Read moreWhat they 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.”
$7bn
spend optimized
“You don't even have to train the teams to use it. You now have [an agent] do all the work of building and creating the events for you.“
$64M
savings in 1 years
“We now have standard elements that can be followed for road transportation events, making it much more efficient for the team, and for leadership.”
$5M
savings from 1 sourcing event
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FAQs
Straight answers to common questions about Keelvar.
Food and beverage procurement combines high-volume direct materials sourcing — ingredients, packaging, raw materials — with complex logistics networks and significant indirect spend. Keelvar customers in food and beverage use the platform to run large-scale ingredients tenders with multi-round negotiation, automate routine indirect and MRO purchasing, and manage transport rates across global distribution networks. A Fortune 500 food and beverage company using Keelvar reduced bid analysis time from hours to minutes.
Yes. Keelvar is built for exactly this type of complexity. A single tender may involve dozens of ingredient specifications across multiple geographies and supplier tiers. Teams can structure bid sheets with custom fields for each specification and model award scenarios that account for supplier coverage by region or site. Scenario analysis shows the full cost and supply implications of every potential award configuration.
Packaging sourcing in food and beverage involves volume-dependent pricing, multiple material types, and tight integration with production schedules. Keelvar handles conditional pricing logic and volume bundling, so teams can evaluate packaging tenders across suppliers with different price-volume structures and identify the award that delivers the best total cost — not just the lowest unit rate.
High-volume, repetitive purchasing — standard ingredients, routine logistics, recurring indirect categories — is where autonomous sourcing delivers the most immediate value in food and beverage. Teams configure the workflow once: which suppliers to invite, what approval thresholds apply, and how bids should be evaluated. Keelvar's agents then execute that workflow automatically each time the need arises. One leading beverage company saved the equivalent of 1,575 workdays across 175 automated events.