Tarsha Montgomery Pitts

About Tarsha Montgomery Pitts

Tarsha Montgomery Pitts is a Chemical Engineer, MBA, and 25-year global procurement and operations executive whose career sits at a rare intersection — the kind that only comes from spending decades in the most demanding industrial environments manufacturing, packaging, and specialty chemicals can offer. With more than $600 million in global spend under management across companies including International Paper, Honeywell, The Rank Group, and ChemTreat, she has spent her career doing what most organizations said could not be done — transforming underfunded, overstretched procurement teams into strategic business partners that move the needle. The results speak for themselves: more than $100 million in delivered savings, a 2023 Supply Chain and Procurement Award for Most Improved Operating Company, and a track record of breakthrough performance in environments that were consistently under-resourced and under-invested. What makes Tarsha's perspective uniquely powerful is the technical depth and real-world complexity behind her expertise. Her engineering foundation combined with decades of hands-on sourcing experience across specialty resins, petrochemicals, water treatment formulations, corrosion and scale inhibitors, and advanced food and beverage packaging materials gives her an uncommon ability to navigate procurement's most complex challenges. That depth trained her to see exactly where organizations are leaving money on the table — and to build the strategy to recover it. In 2026, Tarsha made a pivotal decision — to take everything she had built and pour it into something of her own. Today, as Founder and CEO of TMP Consulting — AI Empowered (TMP Creative Solutions LLC), an International CPD Certified AI Consultant, and a sought-after AI Fractional Advisor, she helps procurement and supply chain leaders implement responsible AI systems that uncover millions of dollars in total-cost-of-ownership savings most teams overlook — while recovering time, increasing capacity, and scaling strategically. Her approach is grounded in a non-negotiable conviction: AI should elevate the procurement workforce, not eliminate it. Through her proprietary Come Up Framework™ — Clarity, Elevation, Scale — Tarsha guides leaders from operational overload to becoming AI-powered strategic business partners within their organizations. She delivers AI literacy training that builds team-wide confidence, facilitates hands-on AI workshops that translate strategy into immediate action, and develops customized AI Strategic Readiness Roadmaps that give organizations a clear, executable path to successful implementation. This is not consulting from a distance — it is transformation built by someone who has lived every challenge her clients are navigating. Tarsha holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from Missouri University of Science and Technology and a Master of Business Administration from Union University (AACSB Accredited). She is a Negotiation Experts' Certified Graduate, a Kellogg University Strategic Negotiation for Managers alumna, and a New Memphis Leadership Academy Fellow. Her mission is as personal as it is professional: to ensure procurement and supply chain leaders are never left behind in the AI revolution — and to equip them with the systems, strategy, and confidence to lead it. Connect with Tarsha at www.TMPConsultingAI.com.