Worldover, AI operating system for substance-based businesses

    Chemicals · PLM

    PLM for chemical distributors

    Today

    A supplier changes the source of a raw material in a product you blend and resell, and the specification, label and safety data sheet you issue are still describing the old composition weeks later.

    Generic PLM assumes you design the product. As a distributor you're managing someone else's substance, a blend recipe, or a repack instruction, and none of those fit a bill of materials built for manufacturing.

    With Worldover

    Worldover PLM connects product specifications, blend formulas, repack instructions and supplier-sourced substance data to the classification, documents and customer specifications that depend on them.

    A specification or supply change is approved with its document and customer consequence visible, and reissue happens as part of the same workflow.

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    The problem

    Why generic PLM failschemicals distributor teams.

    Blend recipes live outside the product record

    A house-brand blend is often just a note to the warehouse, with no link to the specification or classification it should produce.

    Supplier substitutions are invisible upstream

    When a source substance changes, nothing flags the products, labels and customer specifications built on the previous one.

    Customer-agreed specifications aren't held anywhere

    Some customers have agreed a tighter specification than your standard grade, and a routine change can breach it without anyone noticing.

    A working day

    A supplier substitution on a blended product

    1. Your supplier for one input to a house blend changes source, with a slightly different purity.

    2. Today: purchasing accepts the change, and nobody checks whether it affects the blend's classification or a customer's agreed specification.

    3. In Worldover: the proposed substitution shows every blend, label, document and customer specification the input feeds.

    4. The blend specification is re-evaluated against the new input before it's approved.

    5. Approval triggers the reissue tasks for the affected documents and the notification of the customers with an agreed specification.

    How it runs

    How PLM worksinside Worldover.

    01

    Substances and blends are held as records

    A house blend is a specification with its own composition and classification, not a warehouse instruction.

    02

    Repack instructions carry their own record

    Split and repack operations reference the specification and packaging requirements they must meet.

    03

    Change shows its blast radius

    Before approval, a supply or specification change lists the products, documents and customers it touches.

    04

    Customer-agreed specifications are explicit

    Where a customer has agreed tighter limits than standard, that agreement is checked before any change is approved.

    What's in it

    The detail behindPLM.

    PPWR and EPR

    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.

    Even as a distributor, what you actually sell is a substance, whether resold as received, blended or repacked. Holding that substance record once is what lets a supplier change be assessed for its real consequence before it reaches a customer.

    Better together

    What changes when PLMshares a record with the rest of your setup.

    PLM + Regulatory

    Classification and document reissue follow the approved specification change automatically.

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    PLM + QMS

    Blend and repack specifications are the basis for the quality checks applied at each step.

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    PLM + MRP

    Repack and blend planning uses the current approved specification and its material requirements.

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    Willow

    What teams actually askonce the record is in one place.

    • What does this supplier substitution affect across our blends, documents and customer specifications?
    • Which customers hold an agreed specification tighter than our standard grade for this product?
    • Show every change to this blend specification in the last two years with the reason recorded.

    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.

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