International Business Machines Corporation

Himanshu V Bhatt

Hao Zhang

Feng Li

Juhnyoung Lee

Shun Jiang

Wei Ding

Xiang He

Tie Liu

Rong Zeng Cao

Shih-Gong Li

Feng Chun Wang

Identifying one or more source units for one or more food items may include assigning a sequence of numbers to a plurality of source units received at a processing entity and assigning a sequence of numbers to a plurality of end product units processed from the plurality of source units at the processing entity. A production rate associated with the end product units may be determined from a bill of materials associated with the end product units. A probability distribution function may be generated using at least the production rate. The probability distribution function maps a range of the sequence numbers associated with the plurality of source units to a range of sequence numbers associated with the end product units. A conversion algorithm may be generated that uses the probability distribution function to determine a source unit associated with a selected end product unit.

Identifying source material associated with food products using bill of material

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Himanshu V Bhatt