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ABF Transforms Freight & Logistics Procurement with Keelvar
Indirect Materials
Keelvar for indirect materials
Indirect spend is fragmented by nature. Keelvar gives your team the tools to cover more ground, maintain sourcing standards, and capture savings that would go unmanaged.
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What indirect procurement teams can expect to achieve with Keelvar
$56M
in savings in 1 year
84%
bidder participation
78%
decrease in cycle times
208x
ROI in 5 years
Better sourcing outcomes across indirect spend
Indirect categories multiply faster than teams do. Keelvar gives you the automation to keep up without cutting corners on process.
Make award decisions based on total value, not just price
Model award scenarios across cost, risk, quality, sustainability, and supplier capacity simultaneously — so every decision reflects the full picture.
When contracts expire, budgets change, or new categories get escalated, trigger sourcing events automatically — without waiting for manual intervention.
Build best practices once, apply them everywhere
Create sourcing workflows for your key indirect categories — IT hardware, facilities services, professional services, MRO — and reuse them consistently.
Run more events without adding headcount
Automate bid invites, supplier reminders, data validation, and conditional awarding. Your team focuses on the decisions that need them, not the administration that doesn't.
Dynamic feedback shows suppliers where they stand in real time — driving stronger competition and better outcomes across every indirect category you run.
Do you need a tool that can handle the volume and variety of indirect spend?
Keelvar is built for the sourcing events most tools can't handle — and the high-volume events most teams don't have time for.
Keelvar features
We couldn’t fit them all on a webpage. But here are the features your team will ask about first.
Request a demoWhat they say about us
“Keelvar has been instrumental in transforming how we source. From handling complex logistics categories to scaling operations with automation, they’ve enabled us to achieve things we never thought possible"
200
RFPs launched in Month 1
“Keelvar makes processes that are complex, simple, so you can easily follow them, and you can easily go through the checkpoints, so you’re sure you’re not going to make a mistake. It’s like having a second pair of eyes checking everything you’re doing, but in a smart way that unlocks more value for strategic events”
$5M
savings from 1 event
The promise of savings since the beginning was very important for us to gain adoption, and that promise was very well fulfilled since the first event.
15%
average savings across all spend
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FAQs
Straight answers to common questions about Keelvar.
Indirect materials are goods and services that support business operations but do not become part of the finished product — office supplies, IT equipment, facilities consumables, professional services, and similar categories. Indirect spend is often fragmented across many categories and business units, making it difficult to manage strategically or consolidate for competitive advantage.
Keelvar enables indirect procurement teams to run competitive sourcing events across the full range of indirect categories — from IT hardware to office consumables to professional services. Autonomous sourcing makes it practical to run a structured competitive process for categories that would otherwise be purchased reactively, because the workflow runs with minimal manual input once configured. This means indirect teams can extend competitive sourcing to categories that previously went unmanaged.
Indirect categories are often too numerous and too time-consuming to manage manually at scale. Keelvar's autonomous sourcing allows teams to configure a workflow for each category or sub-category and then hand execution to AI agents. Supplier engagement, bid collection, and initial analysis all happen automatically. Category managers review outcomes and approve awards, rather than managing every step of the process.
Yes. Keelvar supports services sourcing with configurable RfP structures that accommodate qualitative evaluation criteria alongside price. Teams can weight technical response quality, past performance, and commercial terms in a single event and model award scenarios that reflect those priorities. This makes it suitable for professional services, IT services, consulting, and other indirect categories where price alone is not the right decision criterion.
Because all sourcing activity runs through the Keelvar platform, procurement teams accumulate a structured record of indirect spending: who is buying what, from whom, at what price, and under what terms. Over time this data makes it possible to identify consolidation opportunities, track supplier performance, and make the case for category investments that are currently invisible to finance.