Overage
Also called Overpack, Buffer, Yield allowance
Extra ingredient ordered above the recipe amount, to cover what gets lost in handling and processing.
If a run needs a hundred pounds of an ingredient, ordering exactly a hundred pounds guarantees you come up short. Some is left in the drum, some is lost transferring, some is dusted into the air. Overage is the deliberate margin on top — typically two to five per cent, higher for anything sticky, viscous or expensive to run short of.
The right figure is per ingredient, not per order. A dry powder that scoops cleanly might need two per cent; a thick concentrate that coats the inside of every container it touches might need eight. Applying one blanket percentage across a whole bill of materials means simultaneously over-ordering the cheap things and running short on the difficult ones.
It compounds with volume, so a percentage that felt like rounding error at pilot scale is real money at commercial scale — and it belongs in your cost per unit, because you paid for it.
NextBatch keeps this straight for you. Cost per unit, tolling tiers, yield and traceability all derive from the same plan you and your co-manufacturer share — so none of it is a number somebody typed twice.
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