Capgemini-构建集体行动蓝图-重新思考食物浪费作为增长、效率和可持续性的杠杆（英）

Building a blueprint for collective actionPart 1Rethinking food waste as a lever for profitability and growth with actionable insightsPart 1‘Retailers and consumer brands: What is your food waste business opportunity really worth?Each year, the world discards an estimated 1.3 billion tons of edible food. But for retailers and brands, the true cost goes far beyond lost profits—it depletes natural resources, drives up global greenhouse gas emissions, and undermines the livelihoods of farmers across the globe.Progress has been made, but not at the pace or scale needed. That’s because the barriers to change are less about intention and more about deeply entrenched systems—patterns of overproduction, expectations of abundance, and rigid perceptions of perfection that shape both business strategy and consumer behavior.Addressing these underlying issues demands more than point solutions and standalone programs. It requires a collective movement—shared accountability, structural shifts, and bold collaboration across the value chain.This is the purpose of the Food Waste Coalition of Action, a working group led by The Consumer Goods Forum, that brings together leading brands and retailers and industry experts such as Capgemini. Through our blueprint for collective action, we are reimagining food loss & waste, not as an unavoidable byproduct of the supply chain, but as a solvable challenge and untapped source of business value. Unlocking this value and helping organizations build a compelling case for how they can capture it are key ingredients for progressing this agenda.By working together, we can rethink how the end-to-end processes that underpin our food system work, establishing and implementing common frameworks and solutions that find new avenues to profitability and growth in a long-standing problem.We are seeing the most progressive organizations building on operational efficiencies and cost savings to develop solutions that convert waste into value. Innovating by-products that enable new revenue streams, improving brand equity and customer experience while conserving vital resources.Laura Gherasim Sustainable Futures Director, Capgemini Invent Jordan Friedman Manager, Consumer Products and Retail, Capgemini2Building a blueprint for collaboration3Building a blueprint for collaborationThe culture of abundanceFocusing on the areas of direct control over value chain transformationFragmented value chainsToday’s consumption model is built around perfection, sensory appeal, and convenience. Businesses feel pressure to overproduce and maintain full shelves with ideal products—making waste seem like an unavoidable cost of doing business.While significant progress has been made by some organizations this has been mainly focused on areas that are under the direct control of those businesses rather than the systemic change required. What’s needed now is a bold, collaborative, cross-value chain approach that rewires incentives through, for example, the use of