Case Study: Central Garden & Pet achieves rapid supplier onboarding and instant, accurate inspection reporting with Specright

Scaling a Spec-First Approach to Drive Quality, NPD and Procurement

Central Garden & Pet, a 40+-year-old company with 28 business units and over 100 brands, faced fragmentation after many acquisitions: siloed teams, disparate documentation, and inconsistent specification data that caused errors, delays and extra work — including an urgent need to re-source 68 SKUs in three months. To address this, they engaged Specright and its Specification Data Management (SDM) Platform to standardize and centralize spec, quality and regulatory information.

Specright digitized packaging, formula and manufacturing specs, regulatory records, inspections, AQL calculations, corrective actions and supplier assessments, and added NPD/project management workflows. The result: inspection reports that once took 4–6 hours are now instant in dashboards, spec compilation that used to take days now takes about 15 seconds, suppliers can be onboarded quickly, and ingredient or formula changes update all linked products automatically — delivering major time savings and more reliable product launches.

Central Garden & Pet

Paul Gray

Director of Continuous Improvement