01Career foundation
26+Professional experience
Across operations, service, and distribution environments.
Operations & logistics consulting
Build the operation
your growth demands.
We help owner-led businesses turn operational complexity into disciplined systems—built for the floor and designed to scale.
Schedule an operations audit ↗Experience & perspective
A career built
from the floor up.
Selected chapters from a 26+ year professional career—spanning hands-on service, direct-store delivery, food and beverage, distribution, and operational consulting.
02Defining chapter
14 yearsEvolution Fresh
CPG food & beverage · DSD · Regional scale through the Starbucks acquisition.
03Ground-up scale
≈4 yearsScout Distribution
Craft beverage distribution · Teams · Fleet · Facility · Operating systems.
04Range of experience
MULTI-SECTOR
Compass · Everytable · Operandi
Micromarkets · Cold chain · Last mile · Operational consulting.
Selected career experience of Operandi founder Elger Barrios. Company names, logos, and trademarks identify former employers, acquisitions, and operating environments; they do not imply current clients, formal partnerships, or corporate endorsements.
Across every chapter
Build the team. Standardize the work. Create the operating system that can scale.
The future state
Your business—
operating at its next level.
You are not buying a binder of recommendations. You are building the structure, visibility, and discipline of a company ready to grow beyond its current limits.
Where you are nowWhere we build toward
01
The owner solves every problem
→The team operates with clear accountability02
Growth creates more complexity
→Growth follows a repeatable operating system03
Decisions rely on instinct
→Performance is visible and actionable04
Knowledge lives in people’s heads
→Critical work is documented and transferableThe Operandi method
Senior operational leadership.
Without the full-time overhead.
We step into the gap between where the business is today and the executive operating capability its next stage requires.
Diagnose
See the system clearly.
Find the constraints, hidden dependencies, and operating risks limiting performance.
Architect
Design how work should flow.
Define the structure, processes, ownership, and measures required for control.
Implement
Build it with the team.
Translate the plan into practical SOPs, training, routines, and field execution.
Stabilize
Make performance repeatable.
Strengthen accountability and transfer capability so the operation sustains itself.
Where we create leverage
Systems built
to perform.
Focused operational work that creates clarity, removes friction, and makes strong execution repeatable.
01 / Flow↗
Route & Logistics Optimization
Build smarter territories, stronger route economics, and field systems that make every mile and service window count.
02 / Systems↗
Process Engineering
Turn tribal knowledge into documented workflows, clear ownership, and repeatable execution your team can actually follow.
03 / Scale↗
Growth Strategy
Align people, capacity, and operating discipline so new revenue creates momentum—not more chaos.
Selected operating storyScout DistributionSouthern California
Scale built from the ground up
From a small warehouse
to a regional distribution platform.
Following the acquisition of a competitor, Scout Distribution needed to integrate rapid growth without sacrificing service. The experience behind Operandi includes helping build the people, fleet, facility, and operating systems required to make that expansion work.
Craft beer and spirits brands in the portfolio
Delivery trucks supporting a much larger territory
Distribution facility brought online
To design and implement the core warehouse systems and layouts
That work included recruiting and training 26 additional drivers, establishing service expectations, building SOPs from scratch, negotiating fleet expansion, and developing the team structure needed to serve territories from San Clemente to San Luis Obispo and east to Palm Springs and Big Bear.
“I did not do it alone. Building the team and the systems that allow people to perform is what sets me apart.”— Elger Barrios
Career experience of Operandi founder Elger Barrios, presented as an example of the operating leadership behind the firm. Scout Distribution is not represented as a current Operandi Solutions client.
On the floor, not the sidelinesSystems are built with the team that has to run them.
Meet our founder
Experience earned
in real operations.
“We don’t hand clients a strategy deck and disappear. We help build the operating system their business needs to grow.”
Operandi is led by Elger Barrios, whose career spans more than two decades of hands-on logistics and operational leadership. We support businesses that need senior-level structure before they are ready to hire a full-time operations executive. The experience behind our work includes hands-on roles scaling complex distribution operations—including the growth of Evolution Fresh before its acquisition by Starbucks. Our approach combines clear strategy with practical implementation, so the capability lives beyond the engagement.
Start a conversation →Executive verification
Built with the team.
Proven in the work.
“Elger has a rare ability to turn chaotic tribal knowledge into disciplined operating systems. As a leader on our team, he didn’t just build practical SOPs—he developed the people capable of running them, giving our organization the operational infrastructure we needed to scale with absolute confidence.”
“Outstanding operations leaders are difficult to find, and Elger Barrios is one of them. He combines exceptional communication with disciplined execution, creating clear systems that allow teams to perform at their highest level. He consistently established realistic goals, treated team members with fairness and respect, developed scalable SOPs, controlled costs responsibly, and delivered every major initiative on schedule. His leadership style builds accountability without sacrificing morale, and he has the rare ability to improve both operational performance and team culture simultaneously. I would confidently recommend him to any organization looking for a proven operations leader.”
Start with clarity
Find what is
holding growth back.
An operations audit identifies the friction, hidden dependencies, and capacity constraints standing between today’s business and the one you are trying to build.
Schedule an operations audit ↗Direct, practical, and confidential. No generic sales presentation.