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Multi-Category
ABF Transforms Freight & Logistics Procurement with Keelvar
Transportation & logistics
Keelvar for transport & logistics
Hundreds of lanes. Rates that shift weekly. Carriers who won't commit until the last minute. Most tools make you choose between speed and rigour. Keelvar doesn't.
Trusted by industry leading procurement teams globally
What transport & logistics procurement teams can expect to achieve with Keelvar
$600M
spend optimized
8-12%
savings increase per bid round
93%
workload automated
8 min
from launch to award
Better sourcing outcomes for transport & logistics
Road freight, ocean, air, parcel — each mode has its own complexity, its own carrier dynamics, its own decision factors. Keelvar gives your team the tools to handle all of them, consistently.
Make award decisions based on total value, not just price
Model scenarios across cost, transit time, CO2 emissions, carrier reliability, capacity constraints, lane alternatives, and more — so every award reflects what the business actually needs, not just what looked cheapest on the bid sheet.
Pull live benchmark rates for FTL, ocean, and air directly into your analysis. Set dynamic negotiation targets based on best bids, benchmarks, or historicals. React to market shifts before they show up in your P&L.
Build best practices once, apply them everywhere
Create standardised sourcing workflows for road, ocean, air, and spot bids — then reuse them consistently across regions, business units, and every transport event you run. No rebuilding from scratch each time.
When rates move, act before costs do
Automate bid invites, carrier reminders, data validation, and conditional awarding. Your team focuses on the decisions that need them, not the administration that doesn't.
Dynamic feedback shows carriers exactly where they stand in real time — driving stronger competition and better outcomes across every transport event you run.
Do you need a tool built for the complexity of transport & logistics sourcing?
Keelvar is built for the annual RFPs most tools struggle to scale — and the daily spot bids most teams don't have the bandwidth to run.
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 unlocks for us one platform that can handle our largest sourcing events [...] as well as the volume of our more tactical sourcing events, so it was a one-stop-shop for everything we need for sourcing. We have tens of thousands of events that are moving 80% and above autonomously”
+80%
automation on +10,000s events
“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
“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
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FAQs
Straight answers to common questions about Keelvar.
Keelvar is used by some of the world's largest logistics operations to source across all transport modes — FTL, LTL, ocean, air, parcel, and intermodal. The platform supports complex multi-lane carrier tenders with benchmark integration, outlier detection, dynamic target rates, and scenario optimisation. Customers including Maersk, ABF Group, Caterpillar, Becton Dickinson, Adidas, Ryder, and Solvay run transport sourcing in Keelvar.
Freight procurement involves hundreds or thousands of lanes, multiple carriers, and complex bid structures with conditional pricing. Keelvar' evaluates all carrier bids simultaneously, models the cost implications of different carrier allocation strategies, and identifies the optimal award. Teams can compare a cost-minimising allocation against one that preserves carrier diversity or meets specific service requirements — and see the cost of each trade-off in real terms.
Keelvar integrates real-time benchmark rate data for FTL, ocean, and air into the bid analysis workflow. Category managers can compare supplier bids directly against current market rates, identify outlier bids that fall significantly above or below benchmarks, and time sourcing events to take advantage of favourable market conditions. This replaces the manual process of sourcing and applying benchmark data from separate tools.
Keelvar's customised workflow capability enables internal teams and freight desks to trigger spot quote events without involving the central procurement team for every request. The workflow rules are set by procurement; execution is self-service. A logistics coordinator can request a spot quote for a specific lane, the system identifies the relevant carrier shortlist and launches the RfQ, and results come back within the hour. This extends competitive sourcing to spot freight that would otherwise be placed without a competitive process.
Rate Manager centralises all contracted carrier rates — by lane, mode, and carrier — in one platform. Category managers can see current contracted rates, track rate history, and identify lanes where rates have not been refreshed recently. When a rate card is approaching expiry, Rate Manager can automatically trigger a new sourcing event in Keelvar, so carrier rates are consistently maintained at market-competitive levels without manual tracking.
Yes. Keelvar supports global ocean freight sourcing including full container load (FCL) and roll-on/roll-off (RORO) shipments. Customers including Caterpillar, Adidas, and Solvay use Keelvar for global ocean tender management. The platform handles the complexity of multi-port, multi-carrier ocean tenders with the same scenario optimization capabilities used for road freight categories.