Self-service, automated workflows for tactical and tail spend. Plugged into the same powerful optimization engine used for strategic events.
With Autonomous Sourcing, all employees in your organization can easily run sourcing events themselves without adding workload to the sourcing team. Sourcing teams can quickly and easily create category specific automated workflows from which sourcing events can be launched in minutes, without the need for training.
These automated workflows encourage greater competition, speed, and governance for tactical and tail spend by automating simple, repetitive ad-hoc tenders.
Empower business users to source like experts
Allow business users to source directly from approved suppliers for urgent needs. Business users can easily launch a sourcing event for suppliers to bid. No training is required.
Create workflows for any category
Easily create custom workflows for any category with intuitive, no-code self-service workflow builders. It’s designed to meet specific requirements with unparalleled flexibility and adaptability, ensuring optimal sourcing outcomes in every scenario.
Improve sourcing compliance
Get complete visibility and audit trails for spend categories you previously had no control over. Approval steps can be included as needed for each category and remain with procurement.
Introducing Keelvar Autonomous Sourcing
Keelvar Autonomous Sourcing helps organizations automate the sourcing process from start to finish while still allowing precise control and human decision-making where necessary. It lets sourcing teams easily design hands-free automated workflows (executed by bots) that remove the manual, time-consuming steps of the sourcing process and reduce it down to just the time it takes suppliers to submit bids.
Remove manual sourcing of lower value spot buys
Remove manual sourcing of lower value by automating. We automate 100% of the workflow. Build your own workflows and let the machines do the work so that you can focus on strategic tasks.
Let the bot automate the sourcing workflow
Once a request is approved the bot does the rest. It creates the RFQ, selects and invites suppliers, evaluates responses and recommends the award scenario.
Drive savings by ensuring competitive bidding
All purchases go through a competitive bidding process. This ensures you pay the best possible prices even in volatile markets where relying on historical data can be risky.
Improve sourcing compliance
Drive competition by running multiple rounds of RFQs while providing feedback (traffic light rating or rank) to suppliers about their relative competitiveness.
Autonomous Sourcing: 90%+ workload reduction
Best-of-Breed Integrated Sourcing Model
Sourcing for a complex modern business demands a toolset that optimizes all aspects of the sourcing processes and integrates seamlessly into the wider operation. Keelvar combines and exchanges data with SAP Ariba, layering powerful optimization and automation capabilities onto SAPs established, industry-leading procurement platform.
By integrating Keelvar’s Sourcing Optimizer and Autonomous Sourcing solutions with SAP Ariba, businesses obtain a powerful sourcing tool capable of tackling the most complex events. The integration enables centralized sourcing event management, tracking, and analysis while leveraging advanced features to leverage flexible supplier data and bids, cost modelling, and advanced scenario analysis to determine the optimal award outcomes.
