Beroe MAX powered by Kearney

Beat the market every day and deliver continuous competitiveness

Introducing Beroe MAX powered by Kearney, the AI-native decision engine for procurement leaders that continuously surfaces margin opportunities while simultaneously optimizing risk and ESG

Not a dashboard. Not a data layer. The connection between insight and action.

Beroe MAX powered by Kearney is not another dashboard, and it’s not another data layer. It’s what’s been missing: the connection between data and action. There are tools that give you data. There are tools that help you execute. But there has never been anything that connects those two things and tells you what to do, right now, given your categories, your contracts, your suppliers, your priorities. MAX does that.

What makes it possible is what’s behind it. Kearney’s consulting methodology, the Purchasing Chessboard™, decades of category benchmarks, frameworks built and tested across thousands of client engagements, is codified directly into the platform. Not written up in a report delivered once a year. Built into the intelligence that runs continuously.

MAX runs on a unified data foundation, four layers working as one, your internal enterprise data (contracts, invoices, POs, strategy documents, playbooks, and more), Kearney’s benchmarks and frameworks, Beroe’s 30 million market data signals continuously tracking what’s happening in global markets, and specialist third-party datasets via a data marketplace. Every recommendation MAX makes is grounded in the full picturenot a part of it.

Markets move in hours, while category strategies are updated annually. Teams are trapped in a cycle of reaction, not by choice, but because the tools they rely on stop short of the decision. 

MAX closes that gap.

MAX connects the data and action through an AI-native decision layer that continuously surfaces opportunities to maximize margins and optimize cost, risk, and ESG. The result: continuous competitiveness.

Why MAX

Four ways MAX changes what procurement leaders can do with the intelligence in front of them.

Maximize margins in a new way

Maximize margins in a new way

Always-on intelligence surfaces opportunities the moment they emerge, lowering the threshold at which your team can act. Smaller opportunities that never justified the analytical effort become visible while margin improvement becomes continuous.

Scalable impact across the team

Scalable impact across the team

Intelligence that was previously locked in a consultant engagement is now accessible to every category manager. The same team manages more categories, covers more spend, and identifies more opportunities.

Make better decisions, faster

Make better decisions, faster

MAX optimizes across cost, risk, and ESG in one view, so every recommendation reflects what matters most to your business, not a generic balance of competing factors.

A decision ecosystem you can trust

A decision ecosystem you can trust

Every recommendation MAX makes carries the weight of two organizations with a combined 120+ years of procurement domain expertise – Beroe and Kearney – backed by a data marketplace that brings in specialist third-party datasets for more contextual intelligence.

What makes MAX different?

Five things that set MAX apart

Kearney’s consulting methodology codified

Kearney’s consulting methodology codified

MAX is the only platform trained on Kearney’s actual consulting frameworks (Purchasing Chessboard™, benchmarks, and more), drawing on decades of real-world procurement engagements across industries and geographies.

Always-on continuous intelligence

Always-on continuous intelligence

Unlike periodic consulting engagements or reactive and disconnected tools, MAX continuously monitors markets, suppliers, contracts, and enterprise data for proactive recommendations.

Unified data ecosystem

Unified data ecosystem

MAX brings together internal enterprise data, ingested, cleansed, and normalized from your ERPs, data lakes, and procurement systems, with external market intelligence and an open ecosystem of third-party data partners and applications, all at equal footing in a single decision navigation system.

Multivariate optimization – cost, risk, and ESG together

Multivariate optimization – cost, risk, and ESG together

Most procurement tools optimize for one variable at a time. MAX optimizes across cost, risk, and ESG simultaneously.

Neurosymbolic architecture

Neurosymbolic architecture

MAX combines a large language model (for language, reasoning, and opportunity surfacing) with a symbolic rule engine (Kearney’s Purchasing Chessboard™ encoded as structured logic). This hybrid architecture is what separates MAX from generic AI tools.

          

Frequently asked questions (FAQs)

What is MAX?

Beroe MAX powered by Kearney is the first platform to make procurement continuously competitive for Procurement Leaders. An AI-native decision engine that continuously surfaces opportunities to maximize margins and optimize risk and ESG. Built on codified Kearney methodology, always-on intelligence, and a unified data ecosystem. MAX gives teams clarity on what matters most, now. 

How is MAX different from spend analytics, category strategy or market intelligence tools?

Each solves a piece of the puzzle. Spend analytics shows what happened. Market intelligence shows external signals without internal context. Category strategy tools provide a home for strategies but those strategies become static documents revisited only months later. MAX brings together internal enterprise data with external market intelligence and an open ecosystem of third-party data partners and apps, all at equal footing to surface prioritized, decision-ready recommendations, continuously.

How does MAX optimize across cost, risk, and ESG?

Most procurement tools optimize one variable at a time and leave category managers to reconcile the trade-offs manually. MAX optimizes across cost, risk, and ESG simultaneously, calibrated to your business’s stated priorities, so every recommendation reflects what matters most to you. 

How do I get access to MAX?

Click on the ‘Request a Demo’ button below and we will get in touch with you to take this forward.

Request a demo to experience the AI-native decision engine built to make procurement continuously competitive