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ABF Transforms Freight & Logistics Procurement with Keelvar
Maintenance, Repair, and Operations
Keelvar for MRO
MRO spend is often reactive and fragmented. But maverick buying, supplier sprawl, and missed consolidation opportunities add up fast. Keelvar gives your team the tools to bring it under control.
Trusted by industry leading procurement teams globally
What MRO procurement teams can expect to achieve with Keelvar
8%
cost savings
$230M
spend optimized
80%
reduction in time to bidding
+20K
line items per event
Better sourcing outcomes for MRO
MRO demand is often unplanned — a breakdown, a maintenance cycle, a site request. With Keelvar, unplanned demand doesn't have to mean unmanaged spend.
Make award decisions based on total value, not just price
Model scenarios across price, lead time, supplier reliability, and contract compliance simultaneously — so every award reflects the full picture, not just who can ship fastest.
When maintenance schedules change or urgent requirements come in, trigger sourcing events automatically — without waiting for manual intervention.
Build best practices once, apply them everywhere
Create sourcing workflows for your key MRO categories — spare parts, consumables, safety equipment, industrial supplies — 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 MRO event you run.
Do you need a tool that can bring discipline to MRO sourcing?
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.
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“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
“The team is seeking user-friendly tools, and Keelvar provides a state-of-the-art user experience”
+80%
user adoption in 1 year
“We wanted to do something that was a risk and something that we didn't do before to leverage our scale. And we couldn't really do that without the right tools[...]. That is the biggest thing that Keelvar is helping us with.”
$19M
cost savings in 2024 alone
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FAQs
Straight answers to common questions about Keelvar.
MRO purchasing is characterised by high transaction volume, urgent and unpredictable demand, and a very wide range of items — from standard consumables to specialist parts. Category managers rarely have the bandwidth to run a competitive process for every MRO purchase. The result is a category where maverick buying and non-competitive pricing are common, and where procurement has limited visibility into total spend.
Keelvar's autonomous sourcing is well-suited to MRO. For planned MRO categories — routine consumables, regularly used maintenance parts — you configure the workflow once: supplier list, event type, award logic. Keelvar's agents run it every time the need arises. For urgent, unplanned MRO requirements, Keelvar supports rapid spot buy workflows that get a competitive quote back within minutes, even for specialist or hard-to-source items.
Yes. Keelvar supports urgent MRO intake workflows. A buyer describes the requirement — item, quantity, urgency, site — in plain language. Keelvar routes this to the appropriate sourcing agent, which identifies qualified suppliers from your approved list, sends an immediate RfQ, and manages responses. The whole cycle — from request to recommendation — can complete in under 15 minutes for standard parts with active supplier relationships.
MRO rate management is often poorly controlled — different sites may be paying different prices for the same items from the same supplier. Rate Manager centralises all contracted MRO rates in one place, with visibility across sites and categories. When a rate card expires, Rate Manager triggers a new sourcing event automatically, so rates are regularly refreshed and teams are not left using outdated pricing by default.
Because every event and award is recorded in Keelvar, procurement teams build a structured data set of MRO purchasing activity over time. This makes it possible to identify spend patterns, consolidate suppliers, and spot categories where competitive sourcing could deliver better value. Teams that previously had limited visibility into MRO spend can use Keelvar data to build a more strategic category approach.