Thomas Polanski-Project Manager & Product Owner – M&A Integration

Most consultants can talk to the business or to the developers. I can do both – because I come from business administration but still think in systems, interfaces, and data flows.

Two university degrees in business and economics plus a bank training taught me one thing: processes must add up.

I don't just analyze – I understand what a bad checkout flow, a wrong VAT configuration, or inefficient product data maintenance actually costs a company. And I know how to change that.

Over 20 years in e-commerce have brought me closer to every building block of a digital company: shop, PIM, ERP, WMS, payment, logistics, marketplaces, accounting. That makes me a product owner who doesn't need explaining – I know the processes, I know the pain points, I know the systems. I am system-agnostic, question existing processes, and recommend what really fits – no vendor bias, no favorite tool. Stakeholders at C-level and developers in the daily standup: I speak both languages fluently.

Today, I combine that with what currently has the biggest impact: AI integration and process automation with n8n. Not as a buzzword – but used productively. Introduced LLM-supported product data enrichment at a global industrial group. Built complete REST API layers with n8n that fully eliminated manual processes. The question in every project for me is: Where can we automate? Where does AI deliver real business value?

I take responsibility. Not as a consultant who delivers a report and moves on – but as someone who is in the thick of it, thinks along, delivers, and is still there when things get tight.