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Across Keelvar's customer base, results span savings, efficiency, and scale. A global heavy-equipment manufacturer increased sourcing event volume by 1,620% year-on-year. A leading beverage company saved the equivalent of 1,575 workdays across 175 events. A multinational consumer goods firm grew from $4M to $228M in spend managed per month. A healthcare technology company cut time-to-bid by 90%. A global ingredients producer achieved 26% average savings.
Keelvar customers include large enterprises in food and beverage, automotive, high-tech, pharmaceuticals, retail, manufacturing, logistics, and consumer goods. They tend to share common characteristics: significant procurement complexity, high event volumes, and a need to scale sourcing capacity without proportional headcount growth.
Most customers achieve 100% ROI from their first sourcing event. The professional services team manages initial events alongside the customer's team, so results come before the platform is fully embedded. Customers that have adopted autonomous sourcing at scale — running hundreds of automated events per year — typically reach that level within 6–12 months of go-live, depending on starting complexity and internal adoption pace.
Many customers begin with Sourcing Optimizer, then expand to Autonomous Sourcing as they build confidence in the platform's ability to handle their categories. Rate Manager is typically added when teams want to close the loop between contracted rates and new sourcing events. The three products are designed to work together, and the value compounds as more of the sourcing workflow is brought onto the platform.
