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Beroe and Kearney have launched Beroe MAX powered by Kearney, an AI-native decision engine designed to help procurement organisations continuously monitor market conditions and respond to changes across cost, risk and ESG performance.
New Platform Aims to Connect Market Intelligence with Procurement Execution
Unveiled at Digital Procurement World (DPW) NYC, the platform combines procurement intelligence, consulting methodologies and AI technologies to provide real-time recommendations based on market developments and an organisation’s own supplier, contract and spend data.
MAX is designed to close the gap between market intelligence and procurement execution by helping teams identify opportunities and risks as they emerge.
Addressing Growing Procurement Complexity
The launch comes as procurement leaders face increasing responsibilities across supply chain resilience, sustainability, tariff management and margin protection.
Beroe and Kearney argue that traditional procurement operating models struggle to keep pace with rapidly changing supply markets, while many organisations continue to rely on disconnected technology platforms for intelligence gathering and execution.
MAX was developed to address these challenges by serving as a connecting layer between procurement data sources and operational systems.
Combining Market Signals with Procurement Expertise
The platform is built on what the companies describe as a neurosymbolic framework that uses agentic AI alongside procurement intelligence and consulting methodologies.
MAX combines Beroe’s market intelligence capabilities, third-party data sources and more than 30 million live market signals with Kearney’s procurement frameworks, benchmarks and decision methodologies.
The system applies this information to an organisation’s spend data, contracts and supplier base to generate recommendations tailored to specific business requirements.
When external events such as tariff changes, commodity price movements or supplier risk developments occur, the platform continuously reassesses affected categories and highlights areas requiring attention.
Supporting Faster Procurement Decisions
According to Beroe and Kearney, the objective is to enable procurement teams to move from periodic category reviews to continuous decision-making.
The platform provides a unified view of cost, risk and ESG factors, helping procurement professionals prioritise actions across sourcing, supplier management and risk mitigation activities.
Vel Dhinagaravel, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Beroe, said: “The processes procurement relies on today were built for a world that no longer exists. Teams have always had access to market data, but what they have lacked is a system that connects that data to their specific spend, applies procurement logic, and tells them where to act, continuously. MAX puts that capability into the hands of every category manager, not just the ones in the room with a consultant, enabling decisions and outcomes that were previously impossible.”
Designed with Global Procurement Organisations
The platform was developed through a multi-year collaboration between Beroe and Kearney and was shaped by a Strategic Advisory Council comprising 13 global procurement organisations.
The participating organisations represent some of the world’s most complex supply chains and helped validate the platform across multiple procurement categories.
Their involvement was intended to ensure that the platform reflects real-world procurement challenges and operational requirements.
Expanding Coverage Across Suppliers and Categories
Kearney said the platform enables procurement teams to extend analysis beyond their highest-priority categories and suppliers.
Suketu Gandhi, Co-Leader of Global Strategic Operations at Kearney, said: “CPOs are being asked to deliver competitive advantage in markets that move in hours, not quarters. MAX gives procurement leaders the real-time visibility and prioritized recommendations they need to anticipate shifts, focus where it matters, and move decisively. This is not a faster version of the function procurement has always been. It is a different function, one that stops waiting to be asked. It moves from responding to anticipating, from episodic to continuous. That is what it means to compete.”
Focus on Procurement Intelligence and Supply Chain Resilience
The launch reflects growing interest in AI-driven procurement technologies capable of analysing large volumes of supplier, market and spend data in real time.
Beroe said the platform is intended to support procurement organisations as they navigate increasingly volatile supply markets, changing trade conditions and expanding sustainability requirements.
MAX will initially be made available to selected customers over the coming months, with the companies positioning the platform as a new operating model for procurement teams seeking greater visibility, agility and decision-making capability across their supply chains.
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