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ABF Transforms Freight & Logistics Procurement with Keelvar
Retail
Keelvar for retail sourcing
Join leading companies like Tesco and Primark who are driving better retail sourcing outcomes with Keelvar.
Trusted by industry leading procurement teams globally
What other retail companies get from Keelvar
$32M
savings across 38 events
14%
average savings per event
236x
ROI in 1 year
82%
average bidder participation
Better sourcing outcomes for retail
Supplier lead times shift. Demand changes by season. Margin pressure never lets up. Keelvar gives your team the tools to make better sourcing decisions, faster — at the pace retail demands.
Make award decisions based on total value, not just price
Model scenarios across cost, lead time, reliability, sustainability, and capacity — so every award reflects what the business actually needs, not just what looked cheapest on the bid sheet.
Raw material prices, freight rates, currency shifts — when conditions change, trigger new sourcing events automatically. No waiting for manual intervention.
Build best practices once, apply them everywhere
Create workflows for your key categories — own-label, packaging, seasonal goods, store supplies — and reuse them across regions and business units, every cycle.
Run more events without adding headcount
Automate bid invites, reminders, data validation, and conditional awarding. Your team focuses on decisions — not administration.
Suppliers see exactly where they stand in real time — driving better bids and stronger competition across every event you run.
Do you need a product that can help you with sourcing in retail?
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 retail companies are using Keelvar
See how other companies in your industry are using Keelvar across multiple spend categories.
Read moreWhat they say about us
“We've been using Keelvar since 2019 and currently have three different bots for three different categories. They are highly utilized with very happy users. There are two major things we look for and get with Keelvar. The first is usability and the ease of use for our users to initiate sourcing events. The second is to report, capture and track the data that comes out afterwards.”
“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.”
208x
ROI each year using Keelvar
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FAQs
Straight answers to common questions about Keelvar.
Retail procurement covers a wide range of categories — from direct goods and packaging to transport, logistics, and facilities services — and typically operates at high volume with lean teams. Keelvar is used by retail procurement teams to automate high-volume indirect and tail spend sourcing, run complex transport and logistics tenders, and model sourcing scenarios across multi-supplier product ranges.
Transport is one of the most complex and high-value categories in retail. Keelvar handles multi-lane, multi-mode freight tenders with benchmark rate integration, outlier detection, and dynamic target-rate setting. Retail logistics teams can run large carrier tenders — covering FTL, parcel, last-mile, and cross-border lanes — with scenario analysis that evaluates cost, coverage, and carrier risk simultaneously.
Tail spend in retail is often characterised by many low-value transactions managed manually. Keelvar's autonomous sourcing converts these into configured, agent-driven workflows: a request comes in, the agent identifies the appropriate supplier list, launches a fast RfQ, receives bids, and returns a recommendation — all without manual intervention. The result is procurement coverage for spend that would otherwise go unmanaged.
Yes. Keelvar scales with demand. When seasonal peaks require a rapid increase in sourcing event volume — Q4 logistics tenders, promotional goods, peak-season packaging — autonomous sourcing workflows handle the increase without requiring additional team resource. Because the rules and templates are already configured, new events are launched faster and managed consistently regardless of volume.