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    Integration

    SAP Business One integration for cosmetics & chemicals.

    If SAP Business One runs finance today, Worldover slots on top as the substance, formula, regulatory and manufacturing operating layer. The integration is bi-directional at the object level: items, customers, POs, sales orders, stock movements and invoices stay in step without CSVs, without shadow spreadsheets and without per-tenant custom code.

    Quick answer

    The Worldover SAP Business One integration is a bi-directional, object-level connector that syncs items, customers, suppliers, purchase orders, sales orders, stock movements and invoices between the two systems. Worldover owns the substance master, formula and BOM, batch record, QC and regulatory documentation; SAP B1 continues to own general ledger, AR, AP and consolidated financial reporting. Typical outcomes: zero CSV reconciliation, one source of truth per record, no per-tenant custom code, connector deployed in 2 to 4 weeks alongside Phase 1 Worldover.

    • Bi-directional sync at object level, zero CSV reconciliation work
    • Configuration, not per-tenant custom code
    • Items, customers, suppliers, POs, SOs, stock, invoices
    • SAP B1 keeps GL, AR, AP; Worldover owns substance and batch
    • Deployed in 2 to 4 weeks alongside Phase 1
    • Supported on-premise (SQL and HANA) and SAP B1 Cloud

    How this connects to Worldover

    Replacing five subscriptions with one system you actually run the business on?

    Worldover is the AI operating system for chemicals, cosmetics and supplement businesses. One platform, one data model, custom-built around each team.

    See how Worldover works

    Who this is for and why it matters

    For CIOs and CFOs: keep SAP B1 as the untouched finance system of record. Worldover runs above it. No shadow spreadsheets, no monthly CSV reconciliation, no risk of one team's data quietly diverging from the other's.

    For IT leads: no per-tenant custom code. Field mappings are configuration. Upgrades to SAP B1 do not break the connector.

    Which objects sync, and which way

    • Items: created in Worldover from the substance and formula record, pushed to SAP B1 as inventory items.
    • Business partners: customers and suppliers sync both directions, with SAP B1 as the master where finance already runs.
    • Purchase orders: raised in either system, mirrored in the other with goods-in against the PO in Worldover.
    • Sales orders: raised in Worldover for manufacturing-driven flows, in SAP B1 for pure trading flows, mirrored either way.
    • Stock movements: batch and lot movements owned by Worldover, financial stock value posted to SAP B1.
    • Invoices: raised in SAP B1 from the shipped sales order.

    What stays in each system

    SAP B1 stays the general ledger and consolidated financial reporting layer. Worldover owns the substance master, formula, BOM, batch record, QC results, deviations, CAPA, regulatory documentation and customer document portal. The split is deliberate: SAP B1 is a good finance tool and a mediocre substance database; Worldover is the reverse.

    Worldover for this

    See the exact object ownership and a live transaction flow

    In 20 minutes a Worldover specialist will walk through the SAP B1 connector on a sample tenant: exact object ownership per record type, field mappings, and a live sales order flowing from Worldover into SAP B1 with the batch and lot data attached. You leave knowing exactly what stays in SAP B1, what moves to Worldover, and what the reconciliation workload looks like (spoiler: none).

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    Deployment timeline

    The connector deploys in 2 to 4 weeks alongside a Phase 1 Worldover implementation (typically 12 to 16 weeks). Field mappings are configuration, not code, so scope changes during implementation do not extend the timeline.

    Supported deployments

    SAP B1 on-premise (SQL and HANA) and SAP Business One Cloud are both supported. The connector uses the SAP B1 Service Layer API where available and DI Server where not, so authentication and change tracking are standard SAP-supported patterns.

    FAQs

    Common questions.

    See Worldover on your operation.

    A 20-minute working session. Your SKUs, your customers, your documentation. No slide deck.

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    Worldover, AI operating system for chemicals and cosmetics companies

    The AI operating system for substances.

    Worldover is one system that replaces your ERP, PLM, QMS, LIMS, regulatory tools and more – and uses AI to orchestrate every workflow, at enterprise level. Designed for chemical, cosmetic and substance-based businesses.

    • 100% deployment success rate
    • Live in 3 months
    • 16 native modules, one data model

    Used by industry leaders

    HUDA Beauty, Worldover customerICONIC London, Worldover customerThe White Company, Worldover customer
    WorldoverWorldover OS
    Portfolio · 4 sites · 24 markets
    + 1,186 more ingredients
    Substance record

    Citral

    CAS5392-40-5INCICitralEC226-394-6
    GHS07GHS09
    Stock on hand
    840 kg
    Reorder point
    200 kg
    Next batch
    RUN-4821 · 14 Aug
    • F-2214Rose Attar EDP45 kg18 Aug
    • F-2287Velvet Body Lotion22 kg22 Aug
    • F-2301Signature Shower Gel38 kg29 Aug
    Willow · your AI operator
    How's supply looking on Citral?
    Ask Willow across 1,190 ingredients...

    Why Worldover

    A version of this is playing out 
    in your business , right now.

    These aren't edge cases. They're the normal operating conditions for brands, contract manufacturers, ingredient suppliers and distributors across cosmetics, specialty chemicals, food and nutraceuticals.

    Cosmetics · regulatory change

    The preservative just changed concentration in three EU markets.

    A regulatory update changes the permitted concentration of a preservative in three EU markets, effective in eleven weeks. Your quality lead searches the ERP for every affected SKU, finds seventeen, but cannot be certain the list is complete because the ingredient sits under two different INCI names across formulation records. The reformulation log lives in a spreadsheet. The brief is in a shared drive. The batch record is in a different system. By Friday evening there is a draft impact assessment. Nobody has touched the actual compliance documentation.

    Specialty chemicals · SVHC query

    The customer wants an SVHC answer by tomorrow.

    A specialty chemical distributor has just received a customer query about a substance on the SVHC candidate list. Their response depends on knowing which of their current product lines contains that substance, at what concentrations, in which formulations sold to which customers, in which markets. That data exists in four separate places: an ERP, a product database, a SharePoint folder, and a sales CRM that nobody has fully updated since the last rep left. The distributor is not short of systems. It is short of one system the business actually runs on.

    Food · FSMA 204 audit

    The traceability audit is six weeks out.

    A food contract manufacturer has a FSMA 204 traceability audit in six weeks. The regulation requires Critical Tracking Events to be logged at every point in the supply chain from grower to processor. Their current system tracks finished goods by lot. It does not log the upstream ingredient journey at the level of granularity the regulation now demands. The gap is not a data problem. It is an architecture problem. The truth the business depends on is split across too many places to be trusted.

    Nutraceuticals · NSF certification

    The reformulation needs a documentation pack, now.

    A nutraceutical brand is reformulating a product to meet NSF certification requirements for a new retail partner. The process requires identity testing documentation for every raw material, a certificate of analysis for each lot, a stability protocol, and a revised label claim review. All of that information exists. None of it is in the same system. The product manager is spending three days assembling a documentation pack that a properly designed backbone would have produced in minutes.

    The real problem isn't regulation. It's that the work is spread across too many systems – without one shared operational backbone.

    The full essay walks through why substance-based businesses are uniquely hard to run, why existing software has failed to solve it, and what an AI operating system actually means for this industry.

    Read the full essay

    Worldover connects your product, customer and regulatory data into one system.

    Then Willow, our AI layer, tells you exactly what to do with it. One platform replaces the patchwork of tools keeping chemicals and cosmetics businesses in the past. Worldover becomes the central hub for your entire operation.

    ERP

    Finance, procurement, inventory and operations in one data model.

    PLM

    Formulation, specs, versioning and change control from concept to shelf.

    QMS

    CAPA, deviations, audits and supplier quality without disconnected modules.

    CRM

    Customer relationships, orders and commercial data tied to the product record.

    LIMS

    Testing, specifications, batch release and COA management in the same workflow.

    Regulatory tools

    Ingredient restrictions, registrations, notifications and global filing status in one view.

    Compliance tools

    REACH, GHS, CLP and other substance rules checked against your live product data.

    Document authors

    SDS, PIF, dossiers, CoA and labels generated from the same source of truth.

    Implementation

    Live in 3 months.

    1. 01

      Weeks 1 to 4

      Scoping and data model

      Map your systems and configure the foundational data model.

    2. 02

      Weeks 5 to 8

      Configuration and migration

      Build modules, migrate master data and run parallel testing.

    3. 03

      Weeks 9 to 12

      Training, testing, go-live

      Train your team, run final QA and go live with support coverage.

    Backed by the world's best investors

    Chalfen Ventures, Worldover investor
    Index Ventures, Worldover investor
    Entrepreneur First, Worldover investor

    Enterprise-grade security

    SOC 2 certified

    SOC 2 certified

    Independently audited controls for security, availability and confidentiality.

    Book a demo

    See Worldover in action today.

    Give us 30 minutes. We'll show you exactly how Worldover would deploy in your business, with your processes, your data and your guardrails.

    • A live tour of the platform and Willow
    • Custom modules mapped to your workflow
    • Typically replaces 4–7 point solutions

    We'll send a calendar link within one business day.

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