Chemicals · NPD
NPD software for chemical brands
Today
A launch date is committed to a customer, and whether it's achievable depends entirely on a manufacturer's trial results that arrive by email whenever they arrive.
Project tools track tasks and dates on your side. They can't see that the manufacturer's trial batch failed a specification, or that their raw material supplier changed a component mid-development.
With Worldover
Worldover NPD connects the brief, manufacturer handoffs, trial results, regulatory checks and launch gates to the product record that carries the product into commercial supply.
You know which developments are genuinely on track with the manufacturer, and the reason a date is at risk is specific rather than a status colour.
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The problem
Why generic NPD failschemical product owner teams.
The critical path sits with the manufacturer
Formulation, trial batches and stability work happen at the manufacturer's site, and none of it's visible in your own project tool unless someone chases it.
Trial rounds aren't counted
Each failed trial costs weeks of manufacturer time. Without a record of what changed and why it failed, the same round gets repeated.
Regulatory checks happen after commitment
A customer date is agreed before anyone confirms the product can be classified, labelled and shipped into the customer's market.
A working day
A development review with three manufacturers
Six products are in development across three toll manufacturers for a new product line.
Today: someone chases each manufacturer for a status update by email, and two updates contradict what was said last week.
In Worldover: the pipeline shows each product's stage, the manufacturer responsible, open trial rounds and outstanding regulatory checks.
One manufacturer's trial has stalled on a raw material substitution that was never escalated.
The blocker is raised specifically, and the customer date for that product is re-planned before it's missed.
How it runs
How NPD worksinside Worldover.
01
Briefs start the record
Performance requirements, target markets, cost targets and regulatory intent are captured once and carried into manufacturer handoffs.
02
Handoffs are tracked as commitments
What was sent to which manufacturer, what was promised back and when, all on the product.
03
Trial rounds carry their reasons
Each trial batch records what changed and what failed, so the next round is informed rather than repeated.
04
Gates check evidence, not assurance
A launch gate passes when specification, trial results and regulatory checks exist, and shows exactly what is missing when it doesn't.
What's in it
The detail behindNPD.
Project Management
Templated projects, tasks, timelines and approvals linked to platform data.
Project templates
Templated projects that auto-assign tasks to named team members.
Critical path and timelines
Tasks as a critical path, Gantt and timeline.
Project list view
Every project task in one list view.
Approval processes
Approve entities such as artwork.
Linked to platform data
Tasks link to the rest of the PLM and R&D record. This is the point of it: work and data in one place rather than a task tool alongside a data tool.
Individual task dashboards
Each person has their own task list and dashboard.
The difference
Why the substance recordmakes the difference.
A brand that holds the substance record through development can answer the question that actually threatens a launch date: does the manufacturer's current formula meet the specification and the regulatory requirement of the destination market. A supplier substitution during trials becomes a visible event, not something discovered later.
Better together
What changes when NPDshares a record with the rest of your setup.
NPD + PLM
A completed development becomes the live product record without re-entry.
Explore PLMNPD + Regulatory
Classification and market checks start during development rather than at the launch gate.
Explore RegulatoryNPD + QMS
Manufacturer quality expectations and specifications are agreed during development, not after the first delivery.
Explore QMSWillow
What teams actually askonce the record is in one place.
- Which developments are at risk against their customer date, and what is the specific blocker?
- How many trial rounds has this product taken with this manufacturer, and what changed each time?
- Which products in development have no confirmed market classification yet?
Willow doesn't replace expert judgment. It removes the searching, re-keying and chasing between the systems that hold your answers.
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We'll walk through your current workflow, then show the same workflow running on one record.
Research
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