JUNKLESS
3–4× more RFPs, same team. 5–15% savings per ingredient.
JUNKLESS Foods is a rapidly growing better-for-you snack company cleaning up the snack aisle with chewy granola and protein bars made from real, recognizable ingredients. The brand is sold in more than 6,000 retail stores, produces 24 distinct products, and consumes 2 million pounds of brown rice syrup per year.
Over eight months on Waystation, JUNKLESS identified $412K in annualized savings across 11 ingredients, returned 2–3 hours of sourcing capacity per buyer per week, and lined up secondary suppliers for more than 25% of its ingredient base.
Waystation is the closest thing to adding headcount without actually adding headcount.
— Jackie Lepre, Buyer, JUNKLESS
Challenge: a lean team running enterprise sourcing work
JUNKLESS’s sourcing process couldn’t scale with the business. Without formal RFPs, buyers negotiated directly with incumbent vendors. Pricing, supplier history, specs, and documentation were scattered across inboxes and shared drives — making it difficult to rebid quickly, quantify savings, or reduce single-source risk.
1. Scattered pricing and documentation
Supplier communication lived in email threads, and key files were hard to locate later — especially for new team members.
Prior to Waystation, a lot of that relied on teammates sharing information via email. The system was inconsistent and hard to navigate.
— Jackie Lepre, Buyer, JUNKLESS
2. Single-sourced supply increased risk
As volumes grew, backup suppliers were needed, but the team had no repeatable workflow for qualifying them.
Solution: routine, competitive rebids
Waystation gave JUNKLESS a repeatable way to run RFPs, collect responses, and compare options centrally — transforming competitive rebids from one-off projects into standard workflow.
Waystation turned RFPs from a heavy lift into a standard, repeatable workflow.
— Joseph Seviroli, Director of Operations, JUNKLESS
Results
Cost savings from Waystation-led RFPs
In 2025, JUNKLESS identified $412K in savings. Across commodities rebid, the team achieved 5–15% savings by ingredient or material.
In just a few months since using Waystation AI, we identified over $400,000 in savings.
— Joseph Seviroli, Director of Operations
Increased sourcing capacity
Waystation returned an estimated 2–3 hours per buyer per week, letting the team run more sourcing work without adding headcount.
Improved supply chain resilience
JUNKLESS now has approved or in-progress secondary suppliers for more than 25% of its ingredients, reducing single-source dependency.
Waystation helped us quickly identify suppliers. Our supply chain is noticeably more resilient now.
— Jackie Lepre, Buyer
Closing
JUNKLESS’s growth demanded more suppliers, more documentation, more approvals, and more margin and continuity stakes. Waystation added structure and visibility without forcing suppliers into new workflows — letting the team keep moving fast as complexity climbed.
