Chemicals · PLM
PLM for chemical brands
PLM for chemical brands that outsource manufacturing. One product record holds specification, formula, supplier documents and approvals, so you can prove what you sell without chasing a manufacturer.
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.
What's in it
What PLMdoes inside Worldover.
The operational outcomes come first. Open any area to inspect the underlying controls, records and technical detail.
Standards and regimes
01PLMProducts 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.
02Packaging Specification ManagementPackaging 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.
03Supplier PortalsSuppliers add data and documents directly to the platform.
Direct supplier input
Suppliers add data and documents straight into the platform rather than by email.
One workflow, end to end
A customer asks for full composition disclosure
The difference isn't another isolated tool. It's the same work running from one live record.
Where work breaks
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.
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A distributor asks for confirmation of composition against a customer's restricted substances list.
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Today: the brand emails the manufacturer, who checks with their raw material suppliers, and a confident answer takes a week.
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In Worldover: the product record already holds the current formula and substance data supplied by the manufacturer, with version and date.
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The answer is given the same day, with the substance-level evidence attached.
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The next time the same question is asked for a different product, it's a lookup, not a project.
With Worldover
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The brand owns the product record
Specification, formula and substance data are held against your product, whichever manufacturer currently produces it.
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Manufacturer and supplier data lands in structure
Formulas, raw material declarations and certificates arrive against the product and substance they describe, with version tracked.
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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.
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Evidence is queryable, not filed
Composition, restricted substance status and supplier approval can be answered per product or across the whole range.
Connected inside Worldover
One product workflow.Every consequence connected.
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.
Willow
Useful AI starts with live operational context.
Scoped permissions, human approval for anything material and a full audit trail of every action.
- 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?
Buyer confidence
A specialist system, without a specialist-system rollout.
Worldover combines detailed operational control with a practical route to a live first phase.
- 50+
- Enterprise customers across cosmetics, chemicals and supplements
- 4 to 7
- Point systems typically retired, most within 6 months of go-live
- 12 to 16 weeks
- To a live Phase 1, not a multi-year programme
- 1 record
- Per substance, everywhere it appears
See it on your operation
Book a 30-minute slot
Give us the essentials, then choose a 30-minute slot directly in the right person’s calendar. We’ll use your workflow, products and documents, not a generic slide deck.