Packaging is often treated as an afterthought in the food supply chain, yet hidden losses—through damage, spoilage, material waste, and over-packaging—quietly erode profit margins and environmental targets.

Food businesses must balance cost containment, sustainability, and compliance, but the absence of granular packaging data leaves them caught between controlling expenses and ensuring product integrity, making it nearly impossible to pinpoint and correct losses efficiently.

The biggest barrier is the fragmented visibility over packaging at different supply chain stages, with data existing in silos and infrequent, manual audits failing to capture dynamic loss points.

Diverse packaging types, hand-offs among unconnected partners, and lack of standard performance metrics compound the complexity, obstructing accurate root cause analysis.