Chemicals · R&D
R&D software for chemical ingredient providers
Today
Your application team has proven a substance performs at a lower use level, and neither sales nor regulatory can find that work when it would help them.
Lab notebooks and project trackers record trials in isolation. They don't connect a result to the substance's registration status, the customer it was run for, or the sales claim it could support.
With Worldover
Worldover R&D connects application trials, performance data and technical projects to the substance, its registration scope and the customers and claims they support.
Application work becomes evidence you can reuse commercially and cite in registration updates, rather than a report that sits with the person who wrote it.
The problem
Why generic R&D failschemicals ingredient provider teams.
Trials aren't linked to registration
Performance data that could support a registration dossier or an exposure scenario stays in the lab's own files.
Application work repeats itself
Without a searchable record of use level, format and result, the same trial is run again for a different customer.
Technical effort is invisible
Nobody can see which substances or accounts consume the most application time, or what that work has converted.
A working day
A registration dossier update
Regulatory needs performance data to support an exposure scenario update for a substance.
Today: they ask around, and eventually find a relevant trial from a customer project two years ago.
In Worldover: application trials for the substance are searchable by use level, format and result.
The relevant trial is found in minutes and attached to the dossier update.
The same trial record is also visible to sales, who use it to answer a similar customer question the following week.
How it runs
How R&D worksinside Worldover.
01
Projects reference the substance
Every trial records the substance, grade, lot and use level, keeping results interpretable over time.
02
Trials are searchable, not filed
Use level, format, application and result are structured fields rather than prose in a report.
03
Results support both sales and regulatory
Performance data attaches to the claims sales makes and the exposure scenarios regulatory maintains.
04
Effort is measurable
Technical time per substance and account is visible, so application support is prioritised deliberately.
What's in it
The detail behindR&D.
R&D Lab Software
Digital lab covering raw materials, formulations and regulatory screening.
Raw materials workflow management
Build a raw material library with custom workflows across multiple material types, document types and field types, all defined by you during onboarding.
Composition management
Add ingredients to raw materials as ranges or exact percentages, with full impurities management at ppm.
Table management
Customisable views by coding system, part number, type or cost.
Complex cost management
Manage raw material costs with customisable costing modules, currency settings and automatic currency conversion.
Gap analysis
Reports showing which documents are present against which are missing.
Raw material administration
Codes and sub-codes to organise the library the way your team already thinks.
The difference
Why the substance recordmakes the difference.
Application data only compounds in value when it's tied to the substance it tested. That link is what lets one trial support a sales conversation, a registration update and the next customer's question.
Better together
What changes when R&Dshares a record with the rest of your setup.
R&D + Regulatory
Performance data supports exposure scenarios and registration updates.
Explore RegulatoryR&D + CRM
Sales draws on completed application work when answering technical enquiries.
Explore CRMR&D + R&D (cosmetics)
Shared substances keep application evidence consistent across both markets you serve.
Explore R&D (cosmetics)Willow
What teams actually askonce the record is in one place.
- Have we tested this substance at a lower use level, and what were the results?
- Which trials could support the exposure scenario we're updating?
- How much application time has this substance consumed across accounts this year?
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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