Why cosmetic teams outgrow Vault
Vault was built for pharma content management: submissions, controlled documents, quality events, audit trails. It is excellent at that job. It is not a formulation system, not an ERP, not a cosmetics regulatory tool, and it does not know what INCI, PIF, CPSR, PCN, UFI or MoCRA are without configuration.
Cosmetic teams that adopt Vault end up using it as an expensive document library. The actual regulatory and formulation work still happens in spreadsheets, in a separate PLM, in Word templates and in a regulatory consultant's inbox. The document that lands in Vault is a PDF export from that process, not the source of truth.
