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Keelvar Autonomous Sourcing
Keelvar Autonomous Sourcing automates procurement workflows from intake and supplier selection through bidding, analysis, and award.
Keelvar Autonomous Sourcing is an enterprise procurement platform for automating routine and tactical sourcing. It can receive requests, recommend suppliers, create events, manage bidding, analyze responses, and recommend awards within rules set by procurement teams.
Procurement teams use it for tail spend, spot buys, logistics, MRO, services, and other repeatable categories. Complex or high-stakes sourcing can require human approval, and pricing is not published; buyers must request a demo.
Features
- Plain-language intake and automatic workflow routing
- Automatic supplier recommendations and invitations
- Bid sheets and sourcing events created from templates
- Automated multi-round bidding and supplier reminders
- Bid analysis using price and non-price factors
- Award recommendations with approval controls
- Custom workflows with conditional approvals
- Integration with ERP, TMS, and procurement platforms
Use cases
- Automate recurring tail-spend sourcing events
- Run spot-buy and MRO sourcing with less manual work
- Launch routine logistics tenders from approved requests
- Apply sourcing rules consistently across business users
- Escalate unusual bids or awards for human approval
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Latest updates
- Keelvar Launches Rate Manager
Announces the release of Rate Manager.
- Keelvar Integrates with DAT to Enhance Freight Procurement with Real-Time Market Data
Integrates with DAT for freight procurement and market data.
- Keelvar and FreightWaves SONAR Transform Freight Procurement With Real-Time Market Data Integration
Integrates FreightWaves SONAR market data into freight procurement.
- Keelvar and Xeneta Look to Revolutionize Freight Procurement with Real-Time Benchmarking and Sourcing Optimization
Integration uses the freight rate database with sourcing optimization.
- Keelvar Unveils First of its Kind Autonomous Sourcing Solution, for Transformed Outcomes Across Strategic, Tactical and Tail Spend
Combines a no-code automation solution with an optimization platform across the full spend lifecycle.
Capabilities
- Automations — “Intake, supplier selection, event creation, bidding, award — agents handle the full cycle.” source
- AI agents — “Automated sourcing agents ensure every event — however small — runs a proper competitive process, every time.” source
- Connects your apps — “Or skip human input entirely — intake can be triggered directly from integrated upstream systems.” source
- Admin controls — “Every sourcing event run in Keelvar produces a full audit trail, including supplier communications, bid data, scenario analysis, and award decisions.” source
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Pricing
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- 2026-11-06