In the food industry, physical waste abounds.

About 1.3 billion tons of food is wasted every year around the world in every part of the supply chain for reasons such as spoilage, recalls and crop issues. At the industrial level, some contributors to this waste include overproduction, overstock of ingredients with short shelf life, excessive delays between processing and packaging, short supply of packaging materials, batching mistakes, and wrong labeling leading to recalls. You can probably name several more reasons why your own company has more waste than it should.