Cosmetics · PLM
PLM for cosmetic ingredient providers
Today
Three customers hold three versions of your technical data sheet, and none of them match the specification you're shipping today.
Generic PLM manages finished goods. Your product is a substance sold in grades, described by INCI, origin, purity and claim support, and each of those descriptions is a document a customer will formulate against.
With Worldover
Worldover PLM connects grades, specifications, INCI and identifiers, origin and certification claims, and technical documents to the customers and formulations that rely on them.
Every document a customer holds traces to a current specification, and a grade change reaches the people who need to know about it.
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The problem
Why generic PLM failscosmetics ingredient provider teams.
Documents are authored, then orphaned
A technical data sheet written in Word has no link to the specification, so it silently ages.
Grades are treated as separate products
Duplicating the substance per grade means an update has to be made several times, and one is always missed.
Claim support lives in a folder
Natural origin, certification and sustainability claims need evidence, and the evidence is rarely attached to the product.
A working day
A specification update
A process change tightens a purity range on one grade.
Today: the technical team edits the data sheet, and the sales team emails whoever they remember has asked for it.
In Worldover: the specification updates on the grade, and the documents that depend on it are regenerated.
The record shows every customer who holds the previous version and every open sample based on it.
The notification is targeted, and the next enquiry is answered with the current figures.
How it runs
How PLM worksinside Worldover.
01
One substance, many grades
Identity, INCI, origin and hazard data are held once, with grade-level specifications inheriting from them.
02
Documents generate from the record
Technical data sheets, specifications and declarations are outputs of current data, not standalone files.
03
Claims carry evidence
Certifications, origin statements and test data attach to the grade they support, with expiry tracked.
04
Distribution is recorded
The system knows which customer holds which document version, so reissue is precise.
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.
You sell substances, so the substance record is your product record. Holding it once means regulatory status, INCI, origin and specification stay consistent across every document, sample and customer conversation.
Better together
What changes when PLMshares a record with the rest of your setup.
PLM + R&D
Application and demo formulation work references the exact grade and specification.
Explore R&DPLM + CRM
Customer enquiries and document requests are answered from the live record.
Explore CRMPLM + Regulatory (chemicals)
Substance registrations and restrictions govern which markets a grade can serve.
Explore Regulatory (chemicals)Willow
What teams actually askonce the record is in one place.
- Which customers hold an out-of-date technical data sheet for this grade?
- Which grades support a natural origin claim, and what evidence backs it?
- What changed on this specification since last 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
Compared with the alternatives
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