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PLM for chemical brands
Today
You put your name on the product, but the formula sits with a toll manufacturer, the raw material data with their suppliers, and you find out about a change after it has already shipped.
Generic PLM assumes you make what you sell and hold the underlying data. A chemical brand's product record is assembled from a manufacturer's plant and a chain of raw material suppliers behind it, and a shared drive of PDFs isn't a system of record for that.
With Worldover
Worldover PLM connects the specification you own, the formula and substance data your manufacturer provides, supplier documents and approvals into one product record you control.
You can state what is in your product, on whose authority, and what evidence backs it, without waiting for the manufacturer to reply.
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The problem
Why generic PLM failschemical product owner teams.
The specification is a document, not a record
A PDF specification agreed at onboarding doesn't update itself when the manufacturer substitutes a raw material or the supplier changes purity.
Substance data is one level removed
Your manufacturer holds the formula, and their suppliers hold the substance identity behind it, so the brand's own product record only shows what it was told, not what is true.
Every toll manufacturer keeps its own files
A brand with three manufacturing partners ends up with three incompatible filing conventions for the same category of evidence.
A working day
A customer asks for full composition disclosure
A distributor asks for confirmation of composition against a customer's restricted substances list.
Today: the brand emails the manufacturer, who checks with their raw material suppliers, and a confident answer takes a week.
In Worldover: the product record already holds the current formula and substance data supplied by the manufacturer, with version and date.
The answer is given the same day, with the substance-level evidence attached.
The next time the same question is asked for a different product, it's a lookup, not a project.
How it runs
How PLM worksinside Worldover.
01
The brand owns the product record
Specification, formula and substance data are held against your product, whichever manufacturer currently produces it.
02
Manufacturer and supplier data lands in structure
Formulas, raw material declarations and certificates arrive against the product and substance they describe, with version tracked.
03
Changes are visible as they happen
A manufacturer's substitution or a supplier's revised declaration updates the record rather than sitting in an inbox.
04
Evidence is queryable, not filed
Composition, restricted substance status and supplier approval can be answered per product or across the whole range.
What's in it
The detail behindPLM.
PLM
Products with full BOMs across formulations, packaging components and artwork, plus configurable product workflows.
Products
High-level products carrying a full BOM: formulations, raw materials, packaging components and artwork.
Product specific workflows
Configurable product workflows, for example artwork approval or portal registrations, built from the same modules and document structures used elsewhere.
Product table management
Customisable table views so you can organise products by your own coding systems, part numbers, types and costs.
Components library
An infinitely nestable packaging library. A lid has a composition, joins a bottle to become a pack, and that pack can nest again as many layers deep as you need.
Components table management
The same customisable views across your component library.
BOM management
Build a full BOM across artwork, packaging, raw materials and formulations.
Packaging Specification Management
Packaging specifications, artwork and EU packaging compliance.
Components library management
Full specification management with nestable hierarchies: base components, sub-assemblies and finished packaging.
Artwork management
Upload, version and approve artwork linked to components and products.
AI artwork review
AI review of artwork against regulatory requirements, brand guidelines and packaging specifications.
Supplier specifications
Supplier-provided packaging specs with linked documentation and approvals.
Component costing
Multi-currency component costing with BOM roll-up.
Component table management
Customisable component table views.
Supplier Portals
Suppliers add data and documents directly to the platform.
Direct supplier input
Suppliers add data and documents straight into the platform rather than by email.
The difference
Why the substance recordmakes the difference.
You don't run the reactor, but you're the name on the label and the party a customer or regulator will ask first. Holding the substance record means a raw material change three tiers upstream is a fact on your product, not a surprise in an audit.
Better together
What changes when PLMshares a record with the rest of your setup.
PLM + NPD
Development handovers from the manufacturer become the live product record rather than a folder of files.
Explore NPDPLM + Regulatory
Safety data sheets, classifications and market declarations draw on the same substance data.
Explore RegulatoryPLM + QMS
Supplier approvals, batch documentation and complaints attach to the product you sell.
Explore QMSWillow
What teams actually askonce the record is in one place.
- What is the current confirmed composition of this product, and when was it last updated by the manufacturer?
- Which of our products contain this substance, and at what declared concentration?
- Which manufacturer specifications haven't been reconfirmed in the last 12 months?
Willow doesn't replace expert judgment. It removes the searching, re-keying and chasing between the systems that hold your answers.
Request a demo
We'll walk through your current workflow, then show the same workflow running on one record.
Research
Compared with the alternatives
If you're still building a shortlist, these break the market down side by side.
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