Kirk Waldrop

Mr. Waldrop’s focus areas include forward and reverse logistics optimization, facility design and consolidation, operations improvement, field service operations, last-mile direct store delivery and direct to consumer operations, omni-channel operations design and improvement, product lifecycle management, planning and inventory management, procure-to-pay and order-to-cash business cycles, customer and supplier segmentation strategy, cost-to-serve improvement, third party logistics sourcing and implementation, supply chain technology sourcing and implementation, and supply chain management.
With more than 26 years of supply chain and management consulting experience, Mr. Waldrop has assisted clients in various industries, including consumer-packaged goods, industrial manufacturing, food and beverage, retail, health and beauty, consumer electronics, telecommunications, healthcare, travel/hospitality, automotive aftermarket, apparel, third-party logistics and co-manufacturing, and public sector, including defense and aerospace.
Mr. Waldrop’s recent engagements include a network strategy and regional consolidated facility design project for a multibillion-dollar electrical supply company, a distribution network consolidation and transformation project for a multibillion-dollar consumer goods retailer, a third-party logistics selection and implementation project for a $500+ million cosmetics company, and a multi-region network design, facility design and direct-to-store delivery operations improvement project for a multibillion dollar food and beverage company.
Prior to joining A&M, Mr. Waldrop was a Managing Director with Grant Thornton, LLP specializing in supply chain transformation. Previously, he worked with Chainalytics, LLC and Booz Allen Hamilton’s Supply Chain & Logistics Team.
Mr. Waldrop earned a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and an MBA and a master’s degree in logistics and transportation from the University of Maryland. He is ASTL certified in transportation and logistics and warehouse design from the Georgia Institute of Technology.