AlcoholV's AC-Enhanced Hauling ( https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=796303006 ) or Work Smarter ( https://ludeon.com/forums/index.php?topic=27551.msg279568#msg279568 ) are awesome mods. They make pawns take a batch of materials to the nearest stockpile, when applicable, before starting a job.
So your cook grabs a whole stack of meat, plops it down in the low priority stockpile you have set up right next to the stove, and saves lots of time not walking back and forth pointlessly, without you having to micromanage stockpiles or stacks of food. It's applicable for all the other crafting as well.
They're wonderful QoL tools, but woefully out of date, WorkSmarter is for A15, AC-Enhanced Hauling for A17.
Enhanced Hauling has a MIT license on it, so anyone can modify and publish it, updated.
Alternatively, an entirely different mod that addresses this issues of pawns being pretty dumb about materials?
Pleeease?
(Or there's something like this out already and I just haven't found it, despite that it took me about two hours of searching just to find this mod again)
[B18] While You're Up
https://ludeon.com/forums/index.php?topic=37503.0
pickup and haul
https://ludeon.com/forums/index.php?topic=35832
While those are both very useful mods, neither are related to the request. Those mods deal with hauling in general, but does nothing to cause pawns to grab multiple jobs worth of materials when going to craft.