Redwood Logistics is a multi-site logistics and distribution company with a long track record in the industry. Alba Inojosa, a quality professional with nearly fourteen years at the company and nine years focused specifically on the distribution side, leads quality management efforts across multiple locations.

As the organization grew, managing quality assurance across several distribution sites became increasingly complex. Each location operated with its own systems and processes, creating inconsistencies that were difficult to oversee, audit, and correct from a centralized standpoint.

Redwood Logistics recognized that to maintain and raise their quality standards, they needed a unified platform that could bring all locations onto a single, standardized system — one capable of supporting SQF compliance and the rigorous documentation demands of modern food distribution.

Before adopting Allera, Redwood Logistics was using a different QMS software that fell short when it came to rolling out consistently across multiple sites. Rather than working from a single, unified platform, different locations were running different tools, which created fragmentation in processes, documentation, and compliance oversight.

The lack of standardization made it difficult to maintain consistent quality practices organization-wide. Quality documentation, records, and workflows were scattered, which increased the risk of errors and made audit preparation a manual, time-consuming exercise. Locating records quickly — a critical requirement during SQF audits — was not reliably achievable under the previous setup.

Redwood Logistics evaluated several alternatives before making a decision. They needed a solution that was not only standardized and scalable across locations, but also offered strong reporting and analytics capabilities to give quality leadership meaningful visibility into operations.

After meeting the Allera team at the SQF conference and rigorously evaluating competing platforms, Redwood Logistics selected Allera as the most standardized option available. The platform allowed the company to consolidate all sites onto a single QMS, replacing the fragmented multi-tool environment with one centralized system.

The implementation process was notably efficient. Allera's team worked closely with Redwood Logistics to explain the system thoroughly and assisted with the initial upload of forms and SOPs. From there, the Redwood Logistics team was empowered to handle updates, revisions, and input changes independently — a reflection of the platform's user-friendly design.

Key capabilities that drove the decision and the rollout included centralized quality documentation and records, streamlined workflow and nonconformance management, CAPA tracking, and high-quality analytics and reporting that could be shared directly with clients and customers without manual adjustment.

Within approximately three months of implementing Allera, Redwood Logistics underwent their SQF audit — and the results spoke for themselves. The auditor was visibly impressed by how quickly the team could surface documentation and records on demand, a capability that would have been far more difficult under the previous system.

Allera strengthened overall quality oversight across the organization. Processes became standardized, compliance improved, and everything — documentation, records, workflows — became centralized and easy to trace. The risk of errors was minimized, manual tasks were reduced, and the quality team no longer felt the need to constantly verify the accuracy of information in the system.

The analytics capabilities proved immediately valuable beyond internal use: Alba Inojosa and her team can now share polished, ready-to-use reports directly with clients and customers, without any manual reformatting. The system delivers reliable, professional-grade information that reflects the quality standards Redwood Logistics holds itself to.

For a multi-site distribution organization navigating the demands of SQF compliance and cross-location quality standardization, AlleraTech delivered exactly what Redwood Logistics needed: a single, unified platform that made quality oversight efficient, audit readiness consistent, and day-to-day quality work less burdensome.

Alba Inojosa's experience reflects what food safety and quality professionals across the industry are looking for — a system that works the way their teams do, with the reporting depth to satisfy both internal leadership and external clients. For organizations still managing quality across disconnected systems, Redwood Logistics' story makes a compelling case for consolidation on Allera.