Chemicals · PLM
PLM for chemical ingredient providers
Today
A process improvement shifts a specification slightly, and you discover afterwards that two customers had agreed a tighter limit than the published one.
Generic PLM revises documents. It doesn't hold the customer-specific specifications, grade hierarchies and registration links that decide whether a change is safe to make.
With Worldover
Worldover PLM connects grades, specifications, process and site data, and customer-agreed limits to the registrations, documents and orders that depend on them.
Changes are approved with their commercial and regulatory consequences visible, and customers are told before they find out.
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The problem
Why generic PLM failschemicals ingredient provider teams.
Customer specifications are contracts
Agreed limits, often tighter than your published range, are held in commercial files rather than on the product.
Multi-site production diverges
The same grade made at two sites drifts apart when specifications are maintained per site.
Documents lag the change
The technical data sheet, specification and safety data sheet are updated on different timelines by different people.
A working day
A process change proposal
Operations proposes a change that improves yield and shifts a trace impurity level.
Today: technical approves it, and the effect on customer-agreed limits is discovered in a complaint.
In Worldover: the proposal lists the grades, sites, registrations, documents and customer specifications it affects.
Two customers with tighter limits are identified before approval, and the change is staged for them.
Approved documents reissue together, and the change history is on the record.
How it runs
How PLM worksinside Worldover.
01
Grades inherit from the substance
One substance record carries identity and status, with grade and site specifications beneath it.
02
Customer limits are on the product
Agreed specifications per customer are visible to anyone proposing a change.
03
Change shows consequences
Registrations, documents, customers and open orders affected are listed before approval.
04
Documents follow approval
Specifications, technical data sheets and safety data sheets regenerate and reissue as one action.
What's in it
The detail behindPLM.
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.
Grades are variants of a substance, not separate products. Modelling them that way is what allows one approval to correctly cascade across sites, documents, registrations and customer agreements.
Better together
What changes when PLMshares a record with the rest of your setup.
PLM + Regulatory
Registration scope and classification are checked as part of the change.
Explore RegulatoryPLM + CRM
Affected customers are notified from the same record that approved the change.
Explore CRMPLM + PLM (cosmetics)
Cosmetic grades of the same substance stay aligned with their INCI and claim data.
Explore PLM (cosmetics)Willow
What teams actually askonce the record is in one place.
- Which customers hold a tighter specification than our published range for this grade?
- What would this process change affect across sites, documents and registrations?
- Show the specification history for this grade over the last three years.
Willow doesn't replace expert judgment. It removes the searching, re-keying and chasing between the systems that hold your answers.
Request a demo
We'll walk through your current workflow, then show the same workflow running on one record.
Research
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