What do Monday mornings in YOUR procurement organization look like? Based on your answer to that question, ask yourself this: is AI being given a chance to make a difference?
Procurement teams are under real pressure to show where they are using AI. Too often, the quickest answer is to grab a tool, place it somewhere visible, and call it progress, only to discover later that no one is sure what outcome it was supposed to deliver.
The teams getting lasting value start somewhere else entirely. What problem are we trying to solve? Is AI the right fit for it? And what guardrails need to be in place before anyone starts experimenting?
In this episode of The Sourcing Hero podcast, Host Kelly Barner welcomes Hemangi Tawade to the show. Hemangi spent nearly two decades consulting in sourcing and procurement before starting her own advisory practice focused on procurement and AI. She also completed formal programs on both the technology and leadership sides of AI, including at Harvard Business School.
Highlights
Hemangi shares her perspective on how procurement can adopt AI with clear purpose and the right guardrails:
- Why understanding how AI works changes the way procurement professionals use it
- How governance gives teams the confidence to experiment, and even fail, in a protected environment
- Why the best starting point for AI is a simple question about what Monday morning looks like for the procurement team
- How to choose between embedded AI tools, enterprise LLMs, and agentic solutions based on the use case
