Hemangi Tawade-Founder & Principal Advisor
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Founder & Principal Advisor
- Diagnose genuine AI-readiness in procurement environments before technology investment is committed
- Identify where data quality gaps, process immaturity, and governance failures will cause AI initiatives to stall
- Guide leadership teams through the strategic, organisational, and technical decisions that determine whether AI deployments succeed or fail
- Conduct the PAF-I Diagnostic (Procurement AI-Fitness Index), a structured assessment across procurement data, process maturity, technology landscape, governance, and organisational capability
- Produce a scored AI-readiness profile with a prioritised action roadmap for leadership
- Deliver engagement models including clarity work packages, alignment work packages, momentum work packages, transformation advisory, and executive workshops
IT Director Procurement Operations
- Led an international team of IT business consultants, solution designers, and solution engineers across multiple regions
- Coached and developed the team on emerging innovations, AI use cases, and procurement technology trends
- Managed internal budgets, resource planning, recruiting, and performance across the function
- Defined and coordinated the procurement digital roadmap in direct partnership with business counterparts
- Consulted senior procurement management on digitalisation strategy and AI adoption opportunities
- Engaged in Infineon's global SAP S/4HANA rollout from the procurement technology side
- Aligned with IT architects on future system landscape and integration capabilities for the procurement domain
- Translated business requirements into innovation ideas, project scopes, and roadmap priorities
- Ensured professional service management and continuous improvement with external service providers
- Maintained quality standards across technical solution documentation
- Maintained strategic relationships with solution and implementation partners
- Represented Infineon at external industry events
- Scouted emerging procurement technology and market innovations
Business and Integration Arch Manager
- Led SAP S/4HANA, SAP Ariba Sourcing & Procurement, and SAP Central Procurement Hub transformation projects at enterprise scale
- Served as solution architect for complex cross-functional scenarios, owning RICEFWS design and technical solution integrity
- Managed multiple concurrent delivery streams, ensuring alignment across workstreams, timelines, and dependencies
- Facilitated subject matter functional workshops and cross-functional alignment sessions with senior client stakeholders
- Led large, geographically distributed teams across multiple seniority levels
- Managed issue management, escalation management, and executive stakeholder communication
- Drove digitally complex business scenarios from requirements through to go-live
- Supported presales for SAP Ariba, SAP S/4HANA, and Coupa deals, contributing to solution design and client proposals
- Led domain tower trainings and managed resource bench pool planning
- Involved in recruiting and talent acquisition for the procurement practice
- Participated in the Accenture High-Potential Female Leadership Programme
- Contributed to Accenture's diversity and inclusion programme and mentored women in technology and consulting
Business and Integration Arch Associate Manager
Led SAP S/4HANA, SAP Ariba Sourcing & Procurement, and SAP Central Procurement Hub transformation projects at enterprise scale Served as solution architect for complex cross-functional scenarios — owning RICEFWS design and technical solution integrity Managed multiple concurrent delivery streams simultaneously, ensuring alignment across workstreams, timelines, and dependencies Facilitated subject matter functional workshops and cross-functional alignment sessions with senior client stakeholders
IT Officer
SAP System Manager responsible for SAP implementations and global rollouts. Daily activities included SAP production support, system maintenance, project deliveries, end user trainings and assistance. Handled cross application implementation projects like Ariba and SAP integration, SAP MM-SRM, SAP MM-FI Workflow Management as well.
SAP System Manager
- Responsible for SAP implementations and global rollouts including daily SAP production support and system maintenance
- Delivered projects, end user trainings, and assistance
- Handled cross-application implementation projects including Ariba and SAP integration, SAP MM-SRM, and SAP MM-FI workflow management
- Managed all correspondence and routines in German
Process Lead and Senior SAP Consultant
- Provided SAP voice support for Germany in German as process lead
- Served as SAP consultant for SAP MM and SRM rollouts and support
- Supported Robert Bosch Germany onsite as SAP consultant in Stuttgart
SAP Consultant
- Provided first-level voice and production support as SAP MM consultant
- Attended SAP cross-module training in Germany
German Language Expert
- Provided customer service and language expertise for German support services
Industry Experience
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Experienced in Professional Services, Information Technology, Food and Beverage, and Manufacturing.
Business Area Experience
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Experienced in Information Technology, Procurement, Project Management, Supply Chain Management, Finance, and Strategy.
Summary
For nearly two decades, I have sat inside some of the world's most complex procurement environments — leading digital transformation programmes across automotive, pharmaceuticals, telecom, utilities, and consumer goods, in organisations running SAP S/4HANA, Ariba, Coupa, Jaggaer, Icertis, and Ivalua at enterprise scale. I have built Source-to-Pay roadmaps from scratch, managed greenfield and brownfield implementations across multiple countries, and navigated the full arc of what happens when technology meets organisational reality. What that experience taught me, repeatedly, is this: the technology rarely fails. The foundation beneath it does. Data that was never clean. Processes that were never standardised. Leadership that was never aligned on what the tool was actually meant to solve. That pattern — capable organisations investing in the right platforms and still falling short — is exactly what ProcureSynth is built to address. ProcureSynth is my AI procurement intelligence advisory firm, working at CPO, CFO, and COO level. Through the PAF-I Diagnostic and a suite of structured engagement models, I help leadership teams assess genuine AI-readiness in procurement — identifying where data quality, process gaps, and governance failures will undermine technology investment before it is committed. Engagements span diagnostic assessment, strategic alignment, cross-functional workshops, and full transformation advisory. The advisory is grounded in implementation fluency across the full Source-to-Pay landscape. I bring both the practitioner's understanding of what is operationally real and the strategic lens to translate it into leadership decisions that hold. Beyond ProcureSynth, I remain committed to mentoring women in procurement and technology, and to community programmes supporting underprivileged children and senior citizens. If you are a CPO, CFO, or COO preparing to make AI-driven procurement decisions and want to know whether your foundation is genuinely ready — let's talk.
Skills
- Ai Readiness & Advisory
- Procurement Digital Transformation
- Ai Procurement Strategy
- Startegic Advisor
- Program Manager
Languages
Education
Bachelor’s Degree · Arts · Mumbai, India
Bachelor of Arts · Arts · Mumbai, India
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High School · General School · Mumbai, India
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Certifications & licenses
Ai for leaders
Harvard Business School Online
Scrum@Scale Fundamentals
Statistics
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