Supplements · PLM
PLM for food and supplement ingredient providers
Today
A customer is formulating against an assay range you tightened two revisions ago, and the data sheet they hold still shows the old one.
Generic PLM manages finished goods with fixed parts. You sell a substance in grades, described by assay, active form, origin, allergen status and claim support, and every one of those descriptions is a document someone will formulate a dose form against.
With Worldover
Worldover PLM connects grades, assay and specification data, active form and salt factor, allergen, GMO and origin statements, and the technical documents that carry them to the customers relying on each version.
Every document a customer holds traces back to a current specification, and a grade change reaches the people whose formulation depends on it.
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The problem
Why generic PLM failssupplements ingredient provider teams.
A parts list can't hold potency
Assay range, active form and salt factor decide the customer's overage. A generic item master holds none of it, so the real numbers live in a spreadsheet one person maintains.
Statements are re-typed, not held
Allergen, GMO, vegan, kosher and halal answers are rewritten for every questionnaire, so two customers end up with two versions of the same truth.
Documents age silently
A data sheet written in a document editor has no link to the specification behind it, so a specification change never reaches the file or the customer.
A working day
A specification tightens
A process change narrows the assay range on one grade.
Today: technical edits the data sheet, and sales emails whoever they remember asked for it.
In Worldover: the specification updates on the grade and every dependent document regenerates.
The record shows which customers hold the previous version and which samples and open orders are based on it.
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, actives, origin and hazard data are held once, with grade-level specifications inheriting from them.
02
Assay data is structured
Ranges, active form, salt factor and test methods are fields on the grade, not prose in a PDF.
03
Statements carry evidence
Allergen, GMO, origin and certification answers 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 into someone else's dose form, so the substance record is your product record. Held once, it keeps assay, statements, market status and specification consistent across every document, sample and conversation.
Better together
What changes when PLMshares a record with the rest of your setup.
PLM + Regulatory
Permitted forms, maximum levels and claim conditions govern where a grade can be sold.
Explore RegulatoryPLM + R&D
Application work on tablets, capsules and powders references the exact grade and specification.
Explore R&DPLM + CRM
Enquiries, questionnaires and sample requests are answered from the live record.
Explore CRMWillow
What teams actually askonce the record is in one place.
- Which customers hold an out-of-date specification for this grade?
- What changed on this assay range since last year, and who's affected?
- Which grades support a vegan and non-GMO claim, and what evidence backs it?
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
If you're still building a shortlist, these break the market down side by side.
- GuideWhy generic ERPs fail substance businessesThe data model problem behind most failed implementations.Read it
- ComparisonWorldover vs spreadsheets and shared drivesThe real cost of the stack most teams are still running.Read it
- ComparisonWorldover vs an in-house ERP and PLM stackBuild versus buy, with maintenance cost included.Read it