Case Study: Flowers Foods achieves smarter procurement and mislabeling prevention with Specright

How they used Specright to enable smarter purchasing and operational efficiencies

Flowers Foods, one of the largest U.S. packaged bakery producers with thousands of SKUs across 47 bakeries and brands like Wonder Bread and Dave’s Killer Bread, faced fragmented specifications and purchase orders, limited visibility for procurement, and time‑consuming manual reporting (about 40 hours per month compiling plastic‑usage reports). With growing acquisitions and rising sustainability and labeling risks, Flowers Foods turned to Specright and its Specification Data Management™ platform to address these challenges.

Specright centralized specifications, pricing, vendor‑managed inventory (VMI) data, and critical audit documentation while granting suppliers controlled access, creating a single source of truth. As a result, Flowers Foods can run reports in seconds instead of hours, automatically flag order‑consolidation opportunities to cut costs, prevent mislabeling by notifying suppliers of new labels before orders (important given an estimated 50% of recalls stem from mislabeling), and automate sustainability reporting — saving hours each week and improving traceability and audit readiness.

Flowers Foods

Greg Jenkins

VP of Packaging Purchasing