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For your role
You are paying for five overlapping systems and the people to reconcile them. ERP does the ledger. PLM holds formulas. QMS runs GMP. LIMS logs tests. A regulatory tool drafts SDS and PIFs. Excel connects them. Year-end margin reads well; live margin per SKU per customer is opaque. Worldover consolidates those five systems into one AI-orchestrated operating system, with the substance model at the centre, and gives a CFO a live view of unit economics, working capital and the ops FTEs the business no longer has to hire.
Quick answer
Worldover replaces five overlapping systems (ERP for substance ops, PLM, QMS, LIMS and regulatory) with one AI operating system, custom-built around each team's workflows. For a CFO in cosmetics or chemicals, this means: true margin per SKU, per customer and per batch, live; consolidated licence spend down 30 to 50%; ops and regulatory FTE hires deferred by 12 to 24 months; audit prep from weeks to hours; and a substance-first data model that scales into new markets without a new tool per market. Typical payback: 9 to 18 months.
Built for: CFOs and finance leaders at cosmetics brands, contract manufacturers, specialty chemical producers, ingredient suppliers and distributors with £5m+ revenue and a real ops software stack.
Not the right fit for: pre-revenue businesses, or groups that have just completed a global ERP rollout and won't revisit for five years.
Typical substance-based business: ERP (SAP, NetSuite, Sage, D365), PLM (Centric, Coptis), QMS (Aptean, Werum), LIMS (LabWare, STARLIMS), regulatory (Trace One, specialist SDS tools). Combined licence spend often runs £150k to £800k a year, plus 20 to 40% again in integration and reconciliation FTE cost. Reports still get built in Excel.
Worldover for this
Share your current stack (ERP, PLM, QMS, LIMS, regulatory tools), your ops and regulatory headcount, and your top-line revenue by segment. In 30 minutes a Worldover lead will walk you through the consolidation model: which systems Worldover replaces, which stay, which FTE hires can be deferred, and what payback looks like against your actual numbers. You leave with a defensible business case for the board.
Book a CFO briefingWorldover carries the substance data model, formulation, batch and MRP, quality, testing, regulatory workflow, customer documentation and margin analytics on one platform. ERP finance functions (GL, AP, AR, consolidations) usually stay in your current finance system; Worldover connects to SAP Business One, NetSuite, Sage and Dynamics for that. Everything else consolidates.
Every batch carries its full landed cost: raw materials at actual, labour at actual, packaging, freight, tariffs, rework, deviations, customer documentation cost. Margin per SKU, per customer and per batch is live. Board packs become read-only exports, not build exercises.
Worldover rarely reduces the current team. It defers the next hires: the extra regulatory FTE the Head of Regulatory keeps asking for, the ops analyst the COO wants for margin reporting, the QA hire for audit prep. Over 18 to 24 months, teams typically defer 2 to 4 hires that would have been necessary otherwise. That is the largest line in the business case.
Investor DD, retailer audits, notified body inspections, regulator queries: all draw from the same live records. Standard packs export in hours: product-level regulatory status, batch traceability, QC sign-off history, supplier qualification evidence, margin analytics.
FAQs
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The CFO argument for a substance-first operating system.
ReadWhat a realistic budget looks like.
ReadHow the economics change with an AI-orchestrated OS.
ReadHead-to-head against the systems in your current stack.
ReadA 20-minute working session. Your SKUs, your customers, your documentation. No slide deck.
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Worldover is one system that replaces your ERP, PLM, QMS, LIMS, regulatory tools and more – and uses AI to orchestrate every workflow, at enterprise level. Designed for chemical, cosmetic and substance-based businesses.
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The backstory
Worldover began life as a PLM, formulation and compliance tool, focused on giving the chemical and cosmetics industries the enterprise software they always needed.
Success here led us to a bigger realisation. Yes, substance-based businesses needed better software, like Worldover. But they also needed less software. They wanted one system: a true operational nucleus. A system of record with a foundational data layer designed for substances – one that understands formulations, regulations, raw materials and ingredients. A central hub that replaces the patchwork of point tools holding teams back in regulated industries, whilst threading powerful, contextual AI throughout.
That’s what Worldover is today.
How Worldover started life…
Then Willow, our AI layer, tells you exactly what to do with it. One platform replaces the patchwork of tools keeping chemicals and cosmetics businesses in the past. Worldover becomes the central hub for your entire operation.
Finance, procurement, inventory and operations in one data model.
Formulation, specs, versioning and change control from concept to shelf.
CAPA, deviations, audits and supplier quality without disconnected modules.
Customer relationships, orders and commercial data tied to the product record.
Testing, specifications, batch release and COA management in the same workflow.
Ingredient restrictions, registrations, notifications and global filing status in one view.
REACH, GHS, CLP and other substance rules checked against your live product data.
SDS, PIF, dossiers, CoA and labels generated from the same source of truth.
Implementation
Weeks 1 to 4
Map your systems and configure the foundational data model.
Weeks 5 to 8
Build modules, migrate master data and run parallel testing.
Weeks 9 to 12
Train your team, run final QA and go live with support coverage.
Substance-based businesses (cosmetics, chemicals, food, pharma and supplements) live or die by their formulations, their regulatory dossiers and their batch records. We understand the ontology of your business, so we can build a platform that fits exactly how it runs.
Whether you're a global house or an independent brand, Worldover is the base for your entire operation, across all software needs.
The only software needed for chemicals. REACH, CLP and SDS authoring built in, from raw material to finished blend.
Worldover handles your software needs across the business. HACCP, allergens and health claims handled, from formulation to label.
Consolidate your tech stack into one system. GMP, batch traceability and global submissions in one regulated environment.
Backed by the world's best investors
Enterprise-grade security
SOC 2 certified
Independently audited controls for security, availability and confidentiality.
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Give us 30 minutes. We'll show you exactly how Worldover would deploy in your business, with your processes, your data and your guardrails.