Buyer's guide
MRP in a substance business isn't just netting demand against stock. It's planning around shelf life, potency, allocated batches and materials that can't legally go into certain markets. This shortlist ranks the platforms on that reality.
Last reviewed by the Worldover regulatory team.
Quick answer
For cosmetics and chemicals manufacturers, Worldover ranks first in 2026 because planning reads the same record as formulation, batch and regulatory status, so restricted or expiring material never gets planned into a market it can't serve. Deacom, BatchMaster, Aptean, Katana and MRPeasy are credible depending on size and complexity.
How this connects to Worldover
Managing INCI, PIF, CPSR and CPNP across a growing product range?
Worldover holds INCI, formulation, PIF, CPSR, CPNP, SCPN and MoCRA on one substance-first record, with Willow AI drafting and filing on your live data.
See AI ERP for cosmeticsMethodology
1.One record or several
Whether formulation, production, quality and regulation share a record, or get joined by integrations.
2.Regulatory depth as standard
Substance and market rules maintained by the vendor, not configured by you.
3.Fit for your batch reality
Short runs, reworks, split batches and customer-specific variants without workarounds.
4.Speed to first value
How long before the system is doing real work rather than being configured.
5.AI that does work
Agents that draft, check and chase, rather than a chat box over a help centre.
6.Total cost over three years
Licences plus implementation plus the integrations and headcount nobody quotes for.
Ranked on batch-aware, shelf-life-aware and regulation-aware planning. Price bands are indicative annual ranges.
Wrong for: Pure discrete assembly planning, and businesses that only need stock counting
Wrong for: Teams expecting a modern interface
Wrong for: Complex multi-market regulatory work
Wrong for: Fast implementations
Wrong for: Regulated documentation, which it doesn't attempt
Wrong for: Substance-level planning, shelf life and compliance constraints
Price bands are indicative annual ranges for a mid-sized deployment, based on publicly available pricing and typical market deals. Verify against each vendor's own quote. All trademarks belong to their respective owners.
Generic MRP assumes a unit is a unit. In cosmetics and chemicals, two batches of the same material can have different potency, different expiry, different origin and different market eligibility. Plan without that and you'll allocate stock you can't legally or practically use.
Give each vendor a plan involving expiring stock, a batch on quality hold and a market restriction, and watch what the system does. Ours is described on MRP for cosmetics manufacturers.
We're the right answer when planning depends on regulated attributes of the material. We're the wrong answer for discrete assembly and for very small operations that need stock visibility and nothing more.
Planning is only as good as the record it reads. See MRP for cosmetics manufacturers for how we model it.
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