Customers like Mars, Novartis and JCI use Keelvar for MRO procurement to help buyers arrive at optimal supplier award decisions more efficiently.
There are many factors that impact how and when MRO purchasing subcategories are sourced and procured ranging from large, annual tenders for consumables to urgent requests for repair. Keelvar Sourcing Optimizer and Autonomous Sourcing solutions can help you drive better outcomes across all MRO sourcing events.
Ease of event creation
Event auto-piloting
Flexible bid data collection
Supplier bid data validation
Real-time bid feedback
Robust cost modeling
Award scenarios reviews
Speedy spot buys
Handle everything from spot bids to large RFPs with 100s of SKUs, 10K+ suppliers and millions of bid data.
Enable end users to source directly from suppliers for spot buys with automated sourcing bots.
Boost agility by conducting a range of MRO sourcing events quickly, with intuitive reporting.
Reduce MRO supply chain risk with price and non-price bid analysis for better decision-making.
Get more advanced and user-friendly features not found in an ERP, P2P or generic e-sourcing tool.
Easily integrate with other upstream and downstream systems via API.
Enable MRO buyers to make optimal decisions given a range of category-driven price and non-price inputs
Wide-ranging supplier options
Types of suppliers by item
Alternative materials and specifications
Sustainable & CSR sourcing factors
Varying units of measure
Varying minimum order quantities
Varying capacity constraints by location
Discounts by volume and bundled offers
Geographical coverage
Supplier preferences (by plant, item, etc)
Contract term options
Size of spends: tactical, strategic or tail spend
“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.”
“With Keelvar, Mars now has a fit-for-purpose optimizer that we use to run large scale, complex sourcing events and autonomous sourcing which is built onto the optimizer and very intuitive. Our Associates can leverage AI to build and create events”.
“Keelvar is a very user-friendly, simple system, with a lot of powerful things integrated into one solution. Our success here is the data transparency, and the structured way of the process.”
“Interaction with our suppliers is all within Keelvar's tool. Two years from now when we go back into this year's event, all the details will be in there. Everything that you need to know about that event is captured in one place.”
Drive better sourcing outcomes for strategic spend
Extend sourcing best practices to the entire business
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