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Keelvar for pharmaceutical companies
Join leading companies like Novartis, McKesson and Johnson & Johnson who are driving better pharmaceutical sourcing outcomes with Keelvar.
Trusted by industry leading procurement teams globally
What other pharmaceutical companies get from Keelvar
$125M
savings across $1bn spend
80%
of events automated
10%
average savings
602
events across 6 categories
Better sourcing outcomes for pharmaceuticals
Compliance requirements are non-negotiable. Supply continuity is critical. One sourcing misstep affects patient outcomes. Keelvar gives your team the tools to make better decisions, faster — without cutting corners.
Make award decisions based on total value, not just price
Model scenarios across cost, quality, compliance, supplier risk, and continuity — so every award reflects what the business actually needs, not just what came in lowest.
API availability and supplier capacity change fast. Trigger new sourcing events automatically — without waiting for a shortage to hit your formulary.
Build best practices once, apply them everywhere
Create workflows for key categories — APIs, excipients, packaging, contract manufacturing — and reuse them across sites, markets, and every sourcing cycle.
Run more events without adding headcount
Automate bid invites, reminders, validation, and conditional awarding. Your team focuses on decisions — not administration.
Suppliers see where they stand in real time — driving better bids across every event you run.
Do you need a product that can help you with 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.
Where pharmaceutical companies are using Keelvar
See how other companies in your industry are using Keelvar across multiple spend categories.
Read moreWhat they say about us
“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 year
“Anybody can create a software tool to house data. It’s the analytics that tipped the scale back in 2019, and it’s the reason we’re still using Keelvar 6 years later. Anything we can do to help stabilise or drive down costs during tariff changes or shipping disruptions has been very valuable to us.”
$440M
savings in 2 years from $7.5bn spend
“Keelvar's scenario analysis and automation has allowed us to unlock savings we wouldn't have otherwise identified.“
$3.5M
savings in 2024 in ocean freight alone
“Keelvar is an incredibly easy to use tool both from a bidder and a purchaser perspective. It’s a huge win for us to not have to go through training, and debugging, and support issues with our vendors. In the past 4 years that we’ve used the tool, I’ve never had to do it.”
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FAQs
Straight answers to common questions about Keelvar.
Pharmaceutical procurement operates under strict compliance requirements, with complex direct materials sourcing, high-value indirect categories, and sophisticated supplier qualification processes. Keelvar is used in pharmaceuticals to run structured RfP and RfQ events with full audit trails, model complex award scenarios for API and packaging categories, and automate high-volume indirect sourcing while maintaining governance standards. A healthcare technology company using Keelvar cut time-to-bid by 90%.
Every sourcing event in Keelvar generates a complete audit trail: supplier invitations, bid submissions, bid revisions, scenario analysis, and award decisions. Autonomous sourcing workflows operate within rules defined by your compliance team, and human approval steps can be embedded at any stage. This means pharmaceutical procurement teams can move faster without sacrificing the documentation and process control regulators require.
Yes. Direct materials in pharmaceuticals — APIs, excipients, primary packaging — involves highly constrained supplier bases, regulatory requirements, and multi-site supply considerations. Keelvar's Sourcing Optimizer allows teams to model award scenarios that factor in supplier qualification status, geographic redundancy, and volume commitments alongside price. This means teams can identify the optimal commercial outcome while satisfying supply security and compliance requirements.
Indirect categories in pharmaceuticals — lab consumables, facilities services, logistics — are often high-volume and managed by lean teams. Keelvar enables these categories to be handled through configured, repeatable workflows that run with minimal manual input. Category managers set the rules; AI agents execute the events. This creates sourcing coverage that would not be commercially viable to achieve with manual resource alone.